Kotak Balanced Advantage Fund - Direct (G) vs Nippon India Ultra Short Duration 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.

Amit Tripathy

B.Com (Hons),PGDM.

2003 - till date : RNAM : Fund Manager - Fixed Income (Managed various fixed income funds, both open ended and closed ended, across tenures and duration buckets. Active involvement in related activities of risk management, investment and valuation policy framework.) 1999 - 2003: The New India Assurance Co. Limited: Assistant Admin Officer - Investment Dept. (Part of the team managing fixed income and mutual fund investment portfolios.) 1998 - 1999 : Sun Invest Associates Limited : Analyst -Equity Market Operations 1997 - 1998: CFS Financial Services Pvt. Limited: Equity Research & Arbitrage Trading.t

Anju Chhajer

B.Com., Chartered Accountant

Prior to joining Reliance Mutual fund Ltd. as a fund manager , she has worked with National Insurance Company as a Money Maker Instruments and D.C Dharewa & Co.