Kotak Balanced Advantage Fund - Direct (G) vs Nippon India Growth Mid Cap 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.

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.

Rupesh Patel

Graduate in engineering from Sardar Patel University, Gujarat and holds a masters in business administration from Sardar Patel University, Gujarat.

From June 2013 till date Fund Manager for schemes of Tata Mutual Fund - Reporting to Chief Investment Officer-Equities. Jan 2012 - June 2013 with Tata Asset Management Ltd. as Principal Officer of Tata Asset Management Ltd - PMS. May 2008 - Jan 2012 with Tata Asset Management Ltd as DGM (Investments). Reporting to Head of Research. Aug 2007 - April 2008 with Indiareit Fund Advisors Pvt. Ltd as Asst. Vice President (Investments). Reporting to Director (Investments). Nov 2001 - Aug 2007 with Credit Analysis & Research Ltd. as Deputy General Manager. Reporting to Executive Director.

Samir Rachh

B.Com

Over 25 years of experience September 2010 onwards RNAM, Fund Manager of - Equity October -2007 to August 2010 RNAM, Senior Analyst involved in research on Select Companies and tracking Few Industries. April 2004 to October 2007 Emkay Global Financial Services Ltd, Head of Research and Portfolio Manager, Heading Research Team and Generating Reports and Ideas,managing PMS Products. April 2003 to March 2004 IndusInd Bank Ltd, Investment Manager, Assisting in fund management and Generating investment ideas. October 1998 to March 2003 Hinduja Finance Ltd, Investment Manager Managing Portion of Company's Investment Book and generating investment ideas