Advisorkhoj Expert Writers

Our expert writers are people who have deep domain knowledge of Financial advice, Entrepreneurship, Creative writing, Internet and digital media.

Dwaipayan Bose

Dwaipayan leads content production and mutual fund research in Advisorkhoj.com. He is actively involved in business development strategy, driving revenue growth and profitability, delivering superior customer satisfaction and talent development in Advisorkhoj. An alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad, Dwaipayan is a Finance and Consulting professional, with nearly 17 years of management and consulting experience in financial services domain across several geographies. In his previous corporate role, Dwaipayan was the Chief Financial Officer of American Express Global Business Services in India. He also co-founded a boutique consulting start-up to advice companies on business restructuring initiatives like private equity funding, mergers & acquisitions, divestitures, outsourcing and organizational restructuring. Dwaipayan has a strong track record of driving superior financial performance and developing talent in the organizations he has been involved with. He can be followed on his Twitter handle @DBadvisorkhoj.

Pradip Chakrabarty

Pradip is a first generation entrepreneur who has built a very successful business for distribution of financial products over last 19 yrs. He is also the Founder and CEO of www.advisorkhoj.com. Pradip is well respected in the Financial Services industry and brings deep domain knowledge and leadership skills and is considered as one of the top Investment Advisors in India. He can be contacted at pradip@advisorkhoj.com

Jigar Parekh

Jigar is a CFP. He has experience of 10 years plus into the MF distribution specifically into developing the IFA channel for the distribution houses. His key area of work have been business development, marketing and sales through the distribution network. Currently, he is working with Prudent CAS Ltd since last 8 years. His current responsibility is taking care of training and learning initiatives for IFAs and employees of Prudent across India. Jigar contributes his writings on popular websites on topics such as Personal Finance and Business Development of IFAs.

Srikanth Matrubai

Srikanth Matrubai has been an active investor and advisor in the stock markets since 1991 and hence is richly experienced having witnessed the bull, bear and flat cycles. Srikanth firmly believes that investments in mutual funds are the best mode to generate healthy returns in the stock markets. Srikanth is an AMFI certified Mutual Fund advisor and a certified IRDA corporate broker.

His blog www.goodfundsadvisor.blogspot.in, was ranked as India's best investment advice blog by the US research ETF database. He contributes with his insightful writings to various websites like Siliconindia, stockmusings, etc regularly on topics ranging from Mutual Funds, Insurance, Personal Finance, IPOs, etc.

Priyanka Chakrabarty

A literature enthusiast who loves to write. An ardent social worker who dreams of bringing about change and hopes to do so through her writing. A firm believer of the saying pen is mightier than the sword, Priyanka is an English Honours graduate. She also pursed Diploma in Wealth Management Practice from IIFP and is a certified social media expert.

Shibaji Bose

Shibaji is a facilitator and consultant in Organisational Learning & Development services and has lent his experience and expertise to numerous organisations in talent engagement and development through Leadership, Communication, Personal Effectiveness, Sales and a varied number of behavioural and soft skill training workshops. Empowered with 17 years of learning experience and demonstrated capability in retail sales & distribution, business development, intermediaries & channel based sales, client relationship, team management and entrepreneurship across FMCG, Bank, General Insurance & Asset Management, he has earned a reputation for being a trusted partner and consultant with his application driven learning transfer in creating business impact for his clients. Professional experience ranges from Colgate Palmolive, HDFC Bank, Tata AIG General Insurance & IDFC AMC.

Vinayak Sapre

Vinayak Sapre runs an advisor coaching firm called 'Insights'. A graduate in Management with over 10 years of work experience in the financial industry. Worked with some of the world's leading Finance companies like Franklin Templeton Investments and AIG Investments. During his tenure at AMCs he has interacted with more than 5000 distributors/advisors across all channels i.e. IFAs, NDs and Banks and has worked very closely with IFAs.
The views expressed in his articles here are his own and not necessarily endorsed by Advisorkhoj.

Aashish Somaiyaa

Aashish Somaiyaa is the Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of Motilal Oswal Asset Management. Mr. Somaiyaa brings with him rich and varied experience - with more than 13 years in sales and distribution, channel management, product development and institutional sales from ICICI Prudential AMC and a brief stint at project management with Bharti AXA Investment Managers.

His last assignment was with ICICI Prudential AMC, as Senior VP & Head - Retail Business. Mr. Somaiyaa holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Polymer Science and a Masters in Management Studies in Finance from NMIMS, Mumbai.

Advisorkhoj Research Team

Our research team has a combined experience of nearly 40 years in the financial services management and distribution, across the entire spectrum of product classes including mutual funds, insurance, equity broking and loan products. To contact our research leads, please see their contact information below.

Dwaipayan Bose: dwaipayan@advisorkhoj.com
Pradip Chakrabarty: pradip@advisorkhoj.com

Rupanjali Mitra Basu

Rupanjali is a Training Enthusiast with more than 12 years of experience with an expertise in BFSI Content and Training along with sales orientation and social media marketing. She has been associated with the Mutual Fund industry for a while in terms of conducting workshops, Mutual Fund Distributor Trainings along with soft skills and products. She has been actively doing training presentations and articles for companies like TMI e2E Academy and CIEL.

Rupanjali is MSc in Finance and a NISM Certified Trainer for Mutual Fund Distributor Exams and Aggregate Wealth Planner.

Zubin Daver

Zubin likes to write. Always believes that words penned down always convey messages better. He loves to document his travel in words & pictures. He adores football, almost to the point of manic obsession. And like all people cool, he loves beer & chicken. Cherry on top you ask? He is an MBA too. There, he has the makings of a well-rounded personality.

Pratibha Chakrabarty

Pratibha is a Youtube content creator at 'Laughonomics' in comedy sketch videos. She is a BSC Graduate (Economics, Maths and Statistics) from Christ University Bangalore who, other than spreading laughter, also specializes in social media and digital marketing. She has passed the AMFI Mutual Funds examination and answers investment in Mutual Fund queries of people on Quora and other platforms. She takes care of the social media wing of Advisorkhoj and is also a content writer.

Radhika Gupta

Radhika Gupta is the CEO of Edelweiss Asset Management. She is a graduate of the Management and Technology Program at the University of Pennsylvania, with joint degrees in Economics from the Wharton School and Computer Science Engineering from the Moore School.

Lav Kumar

Lav Kumar is Head of Product & Business Development at LIC Mutual Fund Asset Management Ltd. He is MBA in marketing with more than 14 years of experience, in his past assignment he has been associated with organisations like Birla Sun Life Asset Management, Motilal Oswal Asset Management & Principal Pnb Asset Management.

Suren Kochhar

The Author, Suren Kochhar has been associated with financial services industry for now 28 Years of which over 23 Years have been with Mutual Fund Industry at Country Leadership positions spearheading Sales, Distribution, Digital, Products, Marketing & Communication.

“Suren is a firm believer in Mutual Funds as the best product for Financial Planning & a strong advocate of Mutual Fund Distribution through Mutual Fund Distribution Partners.”

Shoaib Zaman

Shoaib has more than 15 years of work experience in two industries - Media and Mutual Funds. As a journalist, he has contributed to magazines such as Mutual Fund Insight, Wealth Insight, Business Today and Money Today. In his next spell, he worked with leading AMCs in India, such as ICICI Prudential AMC, L&T Investment Managers, and Axis AMC.

He is the Head of Product & Communication at Advisorkhoj. Shoaib has done his BA in Journalism & Communication Studies from Manipal University, Product Management from ISB, Hyderabad and MBA in Marketing and Finance from Symbiosis. He is also a CFP.

Anamika Pareek

Anamika is the Senior Editor at Advisorkhoj. She is a Calcutta University alumnus and also holds a Masters’ degree in Educational Planning and Management. Deeply passionate about writing, Anamika has diverse skills in research, management, execution and communication in the Educational Technology industry as well as the Financial sector. Coupled with this, more than two decades of experience in administration and management of institutions has given her a deep understanding in the pulse of business through customer satisfaction.

In her corporate roles, Anamika has headed large teams and contributed to the enhancement of their talent through active learning and development programs. Anamika has spearheaded projects for meeting targets in business and contributed to reaching overall business goals.

Vinay Paharia

Vinay Paharia is Chief Investment Officer at PGIM India AMC, overseeing equities and fixed income fund management. He joined PGIM India AMC in January 2023. Vinay is an industry veteran with nearly two decades of equity research and fund management experience. In his previous assignment, Vinay served as the CIO for Union Asset Management Company. Prior to this, he has worked with Invesco Asset Management Company as Fund Manager - Equity.

Vinay manages some of our flagship schemes such as PGIM India Flexi Cap Fund, PGIM India Large Cap Fund, PGIM India Small Cap Fund, PGIM India Midcap Opportunities Fund and PGIM India ELSS Tax Saver Fund. Vinay is a sought after speaker at various industry conferences and regularly contributes his views in media. He regularly authors thought leadership research/whitepaper on markets and investing.

Vinay started his investing career as an Equity Research Analyst at First Global Stock Broking covering Consumer Staples and Consumer Discretionary sectors. Vinay has completed his B.Com, M.M.S (Finance) from Welingkar Institute of Management and Chartered Financial Analyst course from The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India.

Sagneet Kaur

Sagneet Kaur is Senior Vice President Of Behavioral Finance & Consumer Insights with PGIM India Asset Management Company, specialized in developing behavioral interventions and products for facilitating positive financial behavior among investors.

Dwaipayan Bose

Dwaipayan leads content production and mutual fund research in Advisorkhoj.com. He is actively involved in business development strategy, driving revenue growth and profitability, delivering superior customer satisfaction and talent development in Advisorkhoj. An alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad, Dwaipayan is a Finance and Consulting professional, with nearly 17 years of management and consulting experience in financial services domain across several geographies. In his previous corporate role, Dwaipayan was the Chief Financial Officer of American Express Global Business Services in India. He also co-founded a boutique consulting start-up to advice companies on business restructuring initiatives like private equity funding, mergers & acquisitions, divestitures, outsourcing and organizational restructuring. Dwaipayan has a strong track record of driving superior financial performance and developing talent in the organizations he has been involved with. He can be followed on his Twitter handle @DBadvisorkhoj.

Pradip Chakrabarty

Pradip is a first generation entrepreneur who has built a very successful business for distribution of financial products over last 19 yrs. He is also the Founder and CEO of www.advisorkhoj.com. Pradip is well respected in the Financial Services industry and brings deep domain knowledge and leadership skills and is considered as one of the top Investment Advisors in India. He can be contacted at pradip@advisorkhoj.com

Jigar Parekh

Jigar is a CFP. He has experience of 10 years plus into the MF distribution specifically into developing the IFA channel for the distribution houses. His key area of work have been business development, marketing and sales through the distribution network. Currently, he is working with Prudent CAS Ltd since last 8 years. His current responsibility is taking care of training and learning initiatives for IFAs and employees of Prudent across India. Jigar contributes his writings on popular websites on topics such as Personal Finance and Business Development of IFAs.

Srikanth Matrubai

Srikanth Matrubai has been an active investor and advisor in the stock markets since 1991 and hence is richly experienced having witnessed the bull, bear and flat cycles. Srikanth firmly believes that investments in mutual funds are the best mode to generate healthy returns in the stock markets. Srikanth is an AMFI certified Mutual Fund advisor and a certified IRDA corporate broker.

His blog www.goodfundsadvisor.blogspot.in, was ranked as India's best investment advice blog by the US research ETF database. He contributes with his insightful writings to various websites like Siliconindia, stockmusings, etc regularly on topics ranging from Mutual Funds, Insurance, Personal Finance, IPOs, etc.

Priyanka Chakrabarty

A literature enthusiast who loves to write. An ardent social worker who dreams of bringing about change and hopes to do so through her writing. A firm believer of the saying pen is mightier than the sword, Priyanka is an English Honours graduate. She also pursed Diploma in Wealth Management Practice from IIFP and is a certified social media expert.

Shibaji Bose

Shibaji is a facilitator and consultant in Organisational Learning & Development services and has lent his experience and expertise to numerous organisations in talent engagement and development through Leadership, Communication, Personal Effectiveness, Sales and a varied number of behavioural and soft skill training workshops. Empowered with 17 years of learning experience and demonstrated capability in retail sales & distribution, business development, intermediaries & channel based sales, client relationship, team management and entrepreneurship across FMCG, Bank, General Insurance & Asset Management, he has earned a reputation for being a trusted partner and consultant with his application driven learning transfer in creating business impact for his clients. Professional experience ranges from Colgate Palmolive, HDFC Bank, Tata AIG General Insurance & IDFC AMC.

Vinayak Sapre

Vinayak Sapre runs an advisor coaching firm called 'Insights'. A graduate in Management with over 10 years of work experience in the financial industry. Worked with some of the world's leading Finance companies like Franklin Templeton Investments and AIG Investments. During his tenure at AMCs he has interacted with more than 5000 distributors/advisors across all channels i.e. IFAs, NDs and Banks and has worked very closely with IFAs.
The views expressed in his articles here are his own and not necessarily endorsed by Advisorkhoj.

Aashish Somaiyaa

Aashish Somaiyaa is the Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of Motilal Oswal Asset Management. Mr. Somaiyaa brings with him rich and varied experience - with more than 13 years in sales and distribution, channel management, product development and institutional sales from ICICI Prudential AMC and a brief stint at project management with Bharti AXA Investment Managers.

His last assignment was with ICICI Prudential AMC, as Senior VP & Head - Retail Business. Mr. Somaiyaa holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Polymer Science and a Masters in Management Studies in Finance from NMIMS, Mumbai.

Advisorkhoj Research Team

Our research team has a combined experience of nearly 40 years in the financial services management and distribution, across the entire spectrum of product classes including mutual funds, insurance, equity broking and loan products. To contact our research leads, please see their contact information below.

Dwaipayan Bose: dwaipayan@advisorkhoj.com
Pradip Chakrabarty: pradip@advisorkhoj.com

Rupanjali Mitra Basu

Rupanjali is a Training Enthusiast with more than 12 years of experience with an expertise in BFSI Content and Training along with sales orientation and social media marketing. She has been associated with the Mutual Fund industry for a while in terms of conducting workshops, Mutual Fund Distributor Trainings along with soft skills and products. She has been actively doing training presentations and articles for companies like TMI e2E Academy and CIEL.

Rupanjali is MSc in Finance and a NISM Certified Trainer for Mutual Fund Distributor Exams and Aggregate Wealth Planner.

Zubin Daver

Zubin likes to write. Always believes that words penned down always convey messages better. He loves to document his travel in words & pictures. He adores football, almost to the point of manic obsession. And like all people cool, he loves beer & chicken. Cherry on top you ask? He is an MBA too. There, he has the makings of a well-rounded personality.

Pratibha Chakrabarty

Pratibha is a Youtube content creator at 'Laughonomics' in comedy sketch videos. She is a BSC Graduate (Economics, Maths and Statistics) from Christ University Bangalore who, other than spreading laughter, also specializes in social media and digital marketing. She has passed the AMFI Mutual Funds examination and answers investment in Mutual Fund queries of people on Quora and other platforms. She takes care of the social media wing of Advisorkhoj and is also a content writer.

Radhika Gupta

Radhika Gupta is the CEO of Edelweiss Asset Management. She is a graduate of the Management and Technology Program at the University of Pennsylvania, with joint degrees in Economics from the Wharton School and Computer Science Engineering from the Moore School.

Lav Kumar

Lav Kumar is Head of Product & Business Development at LIC Mutual Fund Asset Management Ltd. He is MBA in marketing with more than 14 years of experience, in his past assignment he has been associated with organisations like Birla Sun Life Asset Management, Motilal Oswal Asset Management & Principal Pnb Asset Management.

Suren Kochhar

The Author, Suren Kochhar has been associated with financial services industry for now 28 Years of which over 23 Years have been with Mutual Fund Industry at Country Leadership positions spearheading Sales, Distribution, Digital, Products, Marketing & Communication.

“Suren is a firm believer in Mutual Funds as the best product for Financial Planning & a strong advocate of Mutual Fund Distribution through Mutual Fund Distribution Partners.”

Shoaib Zaman

Shoaib has more than 15 years of work experience in two industries - Media and Mutual Funds. As a journalist, he has contributed to magazines such as Mutual Fund Insight, Wealth Insight, Business Today and Money Today. In his next spell, he worked with leading AMCs in India, such as ICICI Prudential AMC, L&T Investment Managers, and Axis AMC.

He is the Head of Product & Communication at Advisorkhoj. Shoaib has done his BA in Journalism & Communication Studies from Manipal University, Product Management from ISB, Hyderabad and MBA in Marketing and Finance from Symbiosis. He is also a CFP.

Anamika Pareek

Anamika is the Senior Editor at Advisorkhoj. She is a Calcutta University alumnus and also holds a Masters’ degree in Educational Planning and Management. Deeply passionate about writing, Anamika has diverse skills in research, management, execution and communication in the Educational Technology industry as well as the Financial sector. Coupled with this, more than two decades of experience in administration and management of institutions has given her a deep understanding in the pulse of business through customer satisfaction.

In her corporate roles, Anamika has headed large teams and contributed to the enhancement of their talent through active learning and development programs. Anamika has spearheaded projects for meeting targets in business and contributed to reaching overall business goals.

Vinay Paharia

Vinay Paharia is Chief Investment Officer at PGIM India AMC, overseeing equities and fixed income fund management. He joined PGIM India AMC in January 2023. Vinay is an industry veteran with nearly two decades of equity research and fund management experience. In his previous assignment, Vinay served as the CIO for Union Asset Management Company. Prior to this, he has worked with Invesco Asset Management Company as Fund Manager - Equity.

Vinay manages some of our flagship schemes such as PGIM India Flexi Cap Fund, PGIM India Large Cap Fund, PGIM India Small Cap Fund, PGIM India Midcap Opportunities Fund and PGIM India ELSS Tax Saver Fund. Vinay is a sought after speaker at various industry conferences and regularly contributes his views in media. He regularly authors thought leadership research/whitepaper on markets and investing.

Vinay started his investing career as an Equity Research Analyst at First Global Stock Broking covering Consumer Staples and Consumer Discretionary sectors. Vinay has completed his B.Com, M.M.S (Finance) from Welingkar Institute of Management and Chartered Financial Analyst course from The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India.

Sagneet Kaur

Sagneet Kaur is Senior Vice President Of Behavioral Finance & Consumer Insights with PGIM India Asset Management Company, specialized in developing behavioral interventions and products for facilitating positive financial behavior among investors.