Indian Fund Managers on WebNotes

Aishwarya Dhar

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Aishwarya Dhar is a Fund Manager (Debt) at PPFAS Asset Management Private Limited, the asset management company of PPFAS Mutual Fund . She is a named co-fund manager of the Parag Parikh Liquid Fund (the AMC’s liquid mutual fund ) and the Parag Parikh Large Cap Fund (PPLCF, launched 4 February 2026).

Dhar has over eight years of professional experience in the Indian financial-services industry, with a career sequence that has spanned life-insurance and health-insurance investment functions before her March 2021 move to PPFAS:

Mansi Kariya

Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Mansi Kariya is a Co-Fund Manager (Debt) at PPFAS Asset Management Private Limited, the asset management company of PPFAS Mutual Fund . She is a named co-fund manager of the Parag Parikh Liquid Fund (the AMC’s liquid mutual fund ) and the Parag Parikh Dynamic Asset Allocation Fund (PPDAAF), and is part of the debt-team that supports the fixed-income allocation across the AMC’s broader scheme menu.

Kariya joined PPFAS in 2018 as a Debt Dealer, predating the 9 May 2018 launch of the Parag Parikh Liquid Fund and the 4 July 2019 launch of the Parag Parikh ELSS Tax Saver Fund. Her career progression at PPFAS has taken her from Debt Dealer through Credit Research Analyst to Co-Fund Manager (Debt), reflecting the AMC’s structural preference for internal training and progression rather than external lateral hires for senior fund-management designations.

Raj Mehta

Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Raj Mehta is the Executive Vice President and Fund Manager (Debt) at PPFAS Asset Management Private Limited, the asset management company of PPFAS Mutual Fund . He is a named co-fund manager of the Parag Parikh Flexi Cap Fund (PPFCF), where he is principally responsible for the debt allocation and the overseas equity allocation, and is also a named fund manager across several of the AMC’s debt and hybrid schemes including the Parag Parikh Liquid Fund, the Parag Parikh ELSS Tax Saver Fund, the Parag Parikh Conservative Hybrid Fund, the Parag Parikh Arbitrage Fund, the Parag Parikh Dynamic Asset Allocation Fund and the Parag Parikh Large Cap Fund.

Rajeev Thakkar

Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Rajeev Thakkar is the Chief Investment Officer (Equity) and a Director of PPFAS Asset Management Private Limited (the AMC of PPFAS Mutual Fund ), and the lead fund manager of the Parag Parikh Flexi Cap Fund (PPFCF) since its launch on 24 May 2013. Rajeev Thakkar has been associated with the broader PPFAS group since 2001, predating the mutual fund launch by approximately 12 years, and has been the principal continuity figure of PPFAS’s investment process through the May 2015 transition following the death of founder Parag Parikh.

Raunak Onkar

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Raunak Onkar is the Head of Research at PPFAS Asset Management Private Limited, the asset management company of PPFAS Mutual Fund , and a co-fund manager of the Parag Parikh Flexi Cap Fund (PPFCF) since the scheme’s launch on 24 May 2013. Onkar has been associated with the PPFAS group since 2008, when he joined as a research intern, and is one of the longest-tenured members of the AMC’s investment team after Rajeev Thakkar , the Chief Investment Officer (Equity).

Rukun Tarachandani

Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Rukun Tarachandani is the Executive Vice President and Fund Manager (Equity) at PPFAS Asset Management Private Limited, the asset management company of PPFAS Mutual Fund . He is a named co-fund manager of the Parag Parikh Flexi Cap Fund (PPFCF), the AMC’s flagship and India’s largest actively managed equity mutual fund , and of several other active equity and hybrid schemes including the Parag Parikh ELSS Tax Saver Fund, the Parag Parikh Arbitrage Fund, the Parag Parikh Dynamic Asset Allocation Fund and the Parag Parikh Large Cap Fund.

Tejas Soman

Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Tejas Soman is a Fund Manager (Debt) at PPFAS Asset Management Private Limited, the asset management company of PPFAS Mutual Fund . He is a named co-fund manager of the Parag Parikh Liquid Fund (the AMC’s liquid mutual fund ) and the Parag Parikh Large Cap Fund (PPLCF, launched 4 February 2026).

Soman is a senior lateral hire into the PPFAS debt team, with over a decade of fixed-income experience accumulated across the leading domestic-debt and primary-dealership desks of the Indian financial-services industry, including: