Bandhan Arbitrage - Direct (G) vs Kotak Balanced Advantage Fund - Direct (G)

Abhishek Jain

BA, Chartered Accountant

Mr Abhishek Jain has 12 years of experience in Equity Market. Prior to joining GMF he was associated with Edelweiss Tokio Life Insurance as a Senior Dealer. He has also worked in Acko General Insurance and Shriram Asset Management Co Ltd.

Arpit Kapoor

B.Tech, PGDM

(a) Torry Harris Business Solutions, Bangalore as Associate software Engineer from June 2005 to June 2007. (b) Mobintech A/S, Denmark as Business Analyst from September 2008 to December 2008. (c) UTI AMC Ltd since June 2009 as Fund Manager cum-Research Analyst.

Kapil Kankonkar

Bachelor of Engineering, Master of Management Studies

Mr. Kapil Kankonkar joined the equity fund management team of Bandhan AMC Limited on June 09, 2025. In his current role, he will be responsible for equity investment function for the schemes of Bandhan Mutual Fund. He has a total work experience of 19 years. Prior to this, he was associated with Kotak Securities Limited from February 20, 2023 to June 07, 2025 and with JM Financial Services Limited from June 06, 2007 to February 18, 2023, where he was responsible for fund management of Arbitrage Funds.

Kenneth Andrade

B. Com, Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Management

Mr. Kenneth Andrade has over 30 years of experience in Indian Capital Markets, portfolio management and investment research. Kenneth is the Founder of Old Bridge Capital Management Private Ltd (OBCMPL). and was Chief Investment Officer of OBCMPL where he was managing the investment process and leads investment ideation. He has a 15-year track record managing equity funds. In his previous assignments Kenneth has worked with IDFC Asset Management Company Limited as Chief Investment Officer. He has also worked as a fund manager with Kotak Mahindra Asset Management Company Limited.

Nemish Sheth

Post Graduate Diploma in Management studies - Finance, B.Com.

Mr. Nemish Sheth joined the Equity Fund Management team of IDFC AMC on November 01, 2021 as Dealer - Equity and Fund Manager He was earlier associated with Nippon Life India Asset Management Ltd. as Dealer from December 2018 to August 2021 handling execution of Equity, Arbitrage and ETF trades. Prior to this, he was also associated with ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company Ltd. as Dealer from August 2011 to December 2018 handling execution of Equity, Arbitrage and ETF trades. (Total experience - 12 years)

Deepak Gupta

B.com., CA.,Cost Accountant(AIMR), CFA

Gupta has 4 years of experience in the mutual fund industry. He worked in the operations division of kotak amc for 2 years. Subsequently in April 2007 he moved to the equity fund management team as a research analyst.

Harish Krishnan

CFA, PGDBM (IIM Kozhikode), B.Tech (Electronics & Communications)

Mr. Harish Krishnan has 14 years of experience spread over Equity Research and Fund Management. Prior to joining Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund, he was based out of Singapore and Dubai, managing Kotak's offshore funds. He has also worked at Infosys Technologies Ltd in his earlier stint. He is a Bachelor of Technology (Electronics & Communications) from Government Engineering College, Trichur, a post Graduate in Management from Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode and a Chartered Financial Analyst from the CFA Institute.

Harsha Upadhyaya

(B.E,Mechancial from Rec, suratkal. PGDM form IIM from Lucknow. CFA institute, USA.

Harsha began his career with Essar steel as an engineer and moved on to pursue higher studies. After completion of PGDM, he joined uti in 1996 and worked as an equity analyst tracking various sectors for over three years. Before his second stint with UTI Mutual Fund starting april 2006, harsha gained considerable experience on indian equity markets working as research analyst in local and foreign broking houses; he has also gained valuable experience in the areas of business analysis and finance working at Reliance Industries and Reliance energy.