If there was one fund manager I would recommend to my parents and sister it would be the one I am writing to you about today.

He came into fund management in a very unusual way.

He ended his formal education at Grade 12 in India and immigrated to Canada in 1976. In 1981, while working as a technician for a phone company, he started an investment club with C$51 000 that would later become one of the funds he still manages today.

For the last 20 years he has operated two of Canada's most successful investment funds. So successful that in 2004 he was named Morningstar's fund manager of the decade.