Are you a Fire Elephant or an Ice Horse? Find out which of the 8 Avatars you are with PGIM India's Money Avatar tool

PGIM India Launches Money Avatar: Decode Your Money Persona and Turn Awareness into Action

Mumbai, February 9, 2026: PGIM India Mutual Fund, in collaboration with Syntoniq (India), today introduces an innovative financial wellness tool-Money Avatar: Discover Your Money Persona. Money Avatar brings an exciting, gamified and behavioral science led assessment of one's financial personality, that is designed to spark curiosity and drive meaningful engagement, empowering individuals to make well-informed money decisions tailored to their unique needs.

Curiosity Meets Science: The Eight Money Avatars at the heart of Money Avatar is a gamified assessment that assigns users one of eight unique Money Avatars such as:

• Fire Elephant: Hopeful, Future Oriented, Promotion Oriented.


• Ice Horse: Grounded, Present Oriented, Prevention Oriented.
  
  

  

This approach is especially engaging for Gen Z and Gen Alpha, offering a fresh, interactive way to explore financial personalities. It leverages behavioral science to decode personal money mindsets-time orientation, motivations, optimism, and financial habits-helping users to identify their unique strengths that can be leveraged for successful money management outcomes-not just gaps and areas for improvement.

Privacy First, Personal Reflection: As Money Is a Private Affair Money Avatar recognizes that money is a deeply personal subject. The assessment is designed for private, individual completion-whether solo or with a spouse or financial partner-so users feel secure and never judged. In corporate settings, Money Avatar remains a personal experience, not a group activity, allowing employees to explore their financial strengths and gaps in a safe, confidential environment, free from social pressure or comparison.

Empowering Advisors and Distributors This can successfully equip distributors and advisors with a powerful engagement tool. Money Avatar enables them to connect with clients and prospects-both directly and through corporate HR heads-by sparking meaningful conversations, facilitating robust financial planning. The assessment leaves each client with the most relevant questions to explore with their advisor, making every engagement purposeful and increasing the likelihood of successful client conversion and retention.

Impact on Employee Wellbeing PGIM India's recent research also highlights the link between financial anxiety and employee productivity. Nearly half of surveyed employees (46%) report financial stress, which directly impacts their productivity at work and motivation (62%), a data point that should catch every HR professional's eye! But that is not all, this interplay between financial strain and mental well-being creates a vicious cycle, where anxiety worsens financial mismanagement, further deepening the stress. Money Avatar addresses this challenge by helping users privately identify their money mindset and prompting actionable next steps, making financial wellness achievable and relatable in the workplace. This positions organizations as default enablers, bridging the gap in behavior, beating procrastination, and promoting productivity while also showing care for employee well-being.

"Money Avatar is more than a tool-it's a mindset shift. It brings science and personalization to financial decisions often influenced by emotion and social cues. By decoding individual money personas, it helps investors understand why they make certain choices, transforming planning into a purpose-driven journey. For distributors and advisors, this means deeper engagement and trust, positioning them as true partners in their clients' financial journeys." says Abhishek Tiwari, CEO, PGIM India Asset Management Pvt Ltd.

The Money Avatar offers a comprehensive, personalized experience across the entire personal finance spectrum-budgeting, protection, saving, and investments. Being identified as one of eight personas provides valuable self-awareness into behavioral styles, biases, and goals shaping financial decisions. This often highlights gaps and prompts relevant questions, helping individuals appreciate the value of having a financial advisor who can tailor strategies to their specific needs. By enabling advisors to customize solutions, Money Avatar drives deeper, more meaningful, and efficient engagements-making financial planning a truly personalized journey toward wellbeing, says Ajit Menon, Senior Advisor, PGIM India Asset Management Pvt Ltd.

"Complementing traditional Investor Awareness Programs, Money Avatar empowers users to identify gaps between financial perception and reality, motivating them to take control of their financial future. The ability to complete the assessment privately encourages honest self-reflection on financial behaviors. This tool's design offers a fresh approach to financial wellness, piquing curiosity as it culminates in assigning one of eight Money Avatars-unique money personas-then guides users through their results, strengths, weaknesses, and provides personalized recommendations tailored to their persona, says Dr. Sagneet Kaur, SVP Behavioural Finance & Consumer Insights, PGIM India Asset Management Pvt Ltd.

Adding to the vision behind the tool's development, Prasad Ramani, CEO, Syntoniq (India), emphasized the importance of emotional resilience in financial planning: "Life is never free from challenges-personal, professional, or emotional. During such times, our emotions often outweigh logic, with pathos taking control of the logos when the command center is too overwrought for rational thinking. To handle challenges successfully, we must first understand the hidden factors that influence our decision-making process. This is why we built the Money Avatar! It equips clients to adopt the right mindset-which is critical in helping them manage times of great stress, make smart decisions, and ultimately chart and steer the course ahead."

At PGIM India, we believe financial wellness is about confidence, clarity, and control. In a dynamic country like India, where a young, educated, and ambitious generation is eager to take charge of its financial future, personalized and private guidance is key. Money Avatar bridges the gap by making financial planning relatable and actionable, connecting people with their inner financial selves and empowering decisions that are not just informed but deeply personal. For today's India, it is more than financial awareness-it is a pathway to reducing anxiety and fostering well-being, tailored to each individual's unique needs.

For more information about Money Avatar and to experience the assessment for yourself, please visit www.pgimindia.com/mutual-funds/money-avatar or contact us at support.moneyavatar@pgimindia.com

About PGIM India Mutual Fund:

PGIM India Asset Management is the full service investment manager of PGIM India Mutual Fund, offering a broad range of equity and fixed income solutions to retail and institutional investors throughout the country. PGIM India Mutual Fund is a wholly owned business of PGIM, the global investment management business of the US based Prudential Financial, Inc. (PFI). We manage 25 open-ended schemes as of January 2026. In addition to managing our investors assets through domestic Mutual Funds, we also offer Offshore Funds, Portfolio Management Services and Alternatives. The fund house leverages the strength and stability of PGIM's 150-year shared legacy to build on its decade long history in India.

Headquartered in Mumbai, PGIM India Mutual Fund has a presence in 25 cities across the country including branches in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Pune. PGIM India Mutual Fund brings a rich blend of global resources, intellectual acumen and local investment expertise and is committed to designing superior and meaningful, wealth-building solutions for our investors. PGIM India provides unique training and educational programs for building exceptional capabilities and best business practices for its business associates. For more information, please visit https://www.pgimindia.com/mutual-funds/

About PGIM

PGIM is the global asset management business of Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU), a leading global investment manager with more than US$1.5 trillion in assets under management as of 30/09/25. With offices in 19 countries, PGIM's businesses offer a range of investment solutions for retail and institutional investors around the world across a broad range of asset classes, including public fixed income, private fixed income, fundamental equity, quantitative equity, real estate and alternatives. For more information about PGIM, https://www.pgim.com/

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