Parag Parikh ELSS Tax Saver Fund

Rajeev Thakkar

Chief Investment officer and Equity Fund Manager

He managed PMS Scheme of PPFAS (with a corpus of around Rs. 300 crores.

Till March 2012 he was acting as a Chief Executive Officer of PPFAS (Sponsor Company). He has joined the company in 2001. He started his career in the year 1994 and he has experience of working in areas like: merchant banking, managing fixed income portfolio, broking operations, PMS operations. He was functioning as a Fund Manager for PMS service of PPFAS managing a portfolio of around Rs. 300 crores. He is acting as a Chief Investment Officer and Fund Manager to the Company.

Educational Qualifications:

B. Com(Bombay University), Chartered Accountant, CFA Charter Holder and Grad ICWA

Raunak Onkar

Dedicated Fund Manager for overseas investments and Co- Fund Manager

Raunak Onkar is a Fund Manager & Research Head at PPFAS Mutual Fund.

He started his career with PPFAS in 2008 as an intern in the Research Team.

He graduated from the University of Mumbai with a BSc in IT & MMS (Masters in Management Studies) in Finance.

Raj Mehta

Debt Fund Manager

He is managing the debt component of the scheme since January 2016. He also manages Parag Parikh Liquid Fund.

He has collectively over 6 years of experience in investment research. He started his career with PPFAS Asset Management Pvt Ltd as an intern in 2012. Following which, he joined the company as a Research Analyst in 2013. He is a Commerce graduate from University of Mumbai, a fellow member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and a CFA Charter Holder. He is also a certificate holder of FIMMDA-NSE Debt Market module issued by NCFM.

Educational Qualifications:

B.Com, M.Com (Mumbai University), Chartered Accountant, CFA Charter Holder

Rukun Tarachandani

Domestic Equity Fund Manager

Rukun is part of the Fund Management team at PPFAS Mutual Fund. He has more than 9 years of experience in Equity Markets.

He started his career in 2013 as an Equity Research analyst with Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research.

Prior to joining PPFAS, he worked with Kotak Mahindra Asset Management as an Equity Research analyst and also managed the Kotak Equity Arbitrage fund from May 2019 to Dec 2019. He is an avid reader of books on Behavioral finance, Value Investing and Quantitative Investing.

Educational Qualifications:

MBA (Finance) from Management Development Institute Gurgaon, B.Tech (Information Technology) from Nirma University, CFA Charterholder and CQF (Certificate in Quantitative Finance) certificate holder

Mansi Kariya

Co-Fund Manager Debt and Credit research Analyst

Mansi Kariya joined PPFAS Mutual Fund in 2018 as a Debt Dealer. Gradually, she assumed the role of Credit Research Analyst within the Fixed Income Team and then eventually became a Co-Fund Manager Debt. In her previous roles, Mansi has worked as a research associate and senior executive - debt products for 3.5 years.