New Delhi, Aug. 4 -- In asset management, everything compounds. Capital, returns, trust. The organisations that understand this apply the same logic to their people. Not as a policy, but as a practice, accumulated over years of consistent decisions that shape what a workplace becomes.

Nippon Life India Asset Management, recently recognised under Mint's India's Iconic Workplaces initiative, is one such organisation. Its numbers tell part of the story: assets under management crossing INR 8.6 Trillion, 40 million investor accounts served, attrition in FY26 at under 12% against an industry average of 18 to 22%. But the more interesting story lies behind those numbers, in what has made the organisation one where, as MD and CEO Sundeep Sikka ...