Kotak Balanced Advantage Fund - Direct (G) vs Nippon India Balanced Advantage Fund - Direct (G)

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.

Amar Kalkundrikar

B.Com, CA, CFA, and MBA from Columbia Business School.

Collectively over 23 years of experience of which nearly 20 years in Fund Management, Equity Research and Portfolio Management Assignments Held (for last 10 years) August 28, 2025 onwards HDFC Asset Management Company Limited September 21, 2020 to August 14, 2025 Nippon Life India Asset Management Company Ltd, Last position held: Fund Manager - Equity March 31, 2002 to September 04, 2020 HDFC Asset Management Company Limited, Last position held: Portfolio Manager - Client Funds

Ashutosh Bhargava

B.Com, MBA (Finance)

Over 13 years of experience in Capital Markets Sept 16, 2017 till date (RNAM - Deputy Investment Strategist and Fund Manager) 2008 - till Sept 15 2017 (RNAM - Investment Strategist) 2007 - 2008 (Reliance Capital Ltd - Economist 2005 - 2007 (JPMorgan India Services Private Ltd - Economist)

Bhavik Dave

BBA (2005 - 2008), PGDM (2010 - 2012)

Over 11 years of experience in equity 18th June 2021 onwards NAM India - Co- Fund Manager & Research Analyst From September 30, 2014 to June 17, 2021 NAM India - Research Analyst From October 07, 2013 to September 29, 2014 Motilal Oswal Securities Limited - Research Associate (Institutional Equities) From May 2012 to October 2013 Crisil Global Analytics Centre - Credit Analyst - US Oil & Gas Sector From July 2011 to May 2012 Grantham Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. - Research Associate Internship

Manish Gunwani

B.Tech (Mechanical), PGDM

Overall 15 years of experience of which 8 years in equity research and one and half year in Fund management.

Meenakshi Dawar

B.Tech From IGIT New Delhi,PGDM From IIM Ahmedabad.,

Reliance Nippon Life Asset Management Limited (From March 01, 2017) - Fund Manager - Equity. IDFC Mutual Fund - Fund Manager managing Large Cap and Hybrid Funds (June 2011 - February 2017) ICICI Securities - Equity Research Analyst covering listed Indian Equities. Also led an initiative to expand research coverage for mid and small cap companies (April 2010 - June 2011) Edelweiss Capital - Associate - Relationship manager for domestic mutual funds and insurance companies (May 2008 - March 2010)