Kotak Balanced Advantage Fund - Direct (G) vs PGIM India Midcap Fund - Dir (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.

Akash Singhania

B.Com(H), CA, & PGDBM (IIM-L)

Prior to being the Fund Manager at DWS, Mr.Singhania was associated with Deutsche Asset management (India) Pvt. Ltd. as Fund Manager-PMS (May'08-Dec'12), ICICI Prudential Asset Management Co. Ltd. as Research Analyst (Mar'06-May'08), SR Batliboi & Co. (Ernst & Young) as Senior Executive (Jul'05-Mar'06), Bharat S Raut & Co. (KPMG) as Senior Executive (Aug'02-May'03) and PWC as Junior Executive (Oct'01-Jul'02).

Aniruddha Naha

MBA Finance & Control-Delhi

He has more than 18 years of experience in the equity & debt market. Prior to joining DHFL Pramerica Mutual Fund he was associated with Avendus Wealth Management Pvt. Ltd. as Portfolio Manager (May 2016 - March 2018), Fund Manager - IDFC Asset Managemement Company Ltd. (April 2013 - March 2016), Portfolio Manager - Mirae Asset Global Investments (Hong Kong) Ltd. (August 2010 - February 2013), Fund Manager - DSP BlackRock Investment Managers Pvt. Ltd. (February 2008 - June 2010).

Avinash Agarwal

B.COM (H) and PGDM from IIM-L.

Prior to joining Sundaram Mutual Fund in February 2008, he has worked as a Manager in investment Research at lrevna and as a Research Analyst Aranca.

Mahendra Jajoo

ACA, ACS, CFA

Mr. Mahendra Kumar Jajoo is the Head - Fixed Income of Mirae Asset Investment Managers (India) Private Limited. He has over 32 years of experience in the field of financial services including 18 years of experience in Fixed Income funds management. He is overall responsible for supervising all Debt schemes of the Mirae Asset Mutual Fund. Prior to this assignment, Mr. Jajoo was Director with AUM Capital Markets Ltd. He has also been associated with organizations like Pramerica Asset Managers Pvt. Ltd., Tata Asset Management Ltd., ABN AMRO Asset Management Ltd and ICICI Group.

Ritesh Jain

PGDBA, Finance from K.J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research, Mumbai.

Mr. Jain has over 18 years of experience in Fixed Income fund Management. Prior to joining Pramerica AMC , he was the Head - Fixed Income with Morgan Stanley Investment Management Pvt. Ltd. ( March 2009 - June 2014 ). He has also been the Head - Fixed Income with Principal PNB AMC ( April 2001 - February 2009 ).