Nov 2018 – Oct 2024 · 5 yrs 11 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• To drive personal finance (PF) coverage by leading, motivating and ideating a team of personal finance writers, right from ideation to pagination and production stage
• Ability to well-diversify PF; going beyond investments to banking, taxation, loans, real estate, fixed income, credit cards, spending, and so on.
• Specialising in covering the Indian mutual funds’ industry with an experience of 22 years
• Ability to write in a language that is comprehensible to the lay reader
• Built and manage solutions that help our readers choose the best mutual funds and best health insurance plans
• Have worked extensively on pages and production, editing and re-writing stories and deciding page layouts. At Moneycontrol.com, I edit almost all the stories my section publishes.

May 2015 – Oct 2018 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• To continue heading the mutual funds desk and ensure that mutual fund news and events that concern the common man and woman are covered adequately and in a timely manner
• To continue maintaining Mint50; Mint's curated list of 50 mutual fund schemes arrived at after a rigorous research process and to continuously upgrade the methodology and process
• To guide -and provide support to- a team of 7-8 people and constantly ideate personal finance story ideas, monitoring progress, ensure timely completion
• To decide pagination on occasions, edit stories and columns and ensure they're fit for publication. To also clear and sign-off the personal finance pages of Mint, occasionally, and ensure they're print worthy.
• Winner of the HT Star Awards ('Rising Star' category) in 2017 for Mint50 project.

Nov 2009 – Mar 2015 · 5 yrs 4 mos

• To track, analyse and write on the mutual funds industry and present the happenings to the common man and woman and offer investment solutions. The aim to answer the reader's penultimate question: "So what's in it for me?"
• Conceived, ideated, launched and on-going maintenance of Mint50; Mint’s curated list of 50 mutual fund schemes that we assess are fit for our readers
• To moderate panel discussions concerning issues and happenings around the Indian mutual funds industry, at Mint's annual mutual fund conclave.
• To occasionally anchor and mostly contribute to many special issues that Mint Money does every year
• Was a key member of the launch team that devised the idea of Mint Money, what it stands for and contributed in designing pages and deciding elements.

Jan 2005 – Jan 2005 · 0 mo

• mutual funds research, part of a team that made the recommendation list for HDFC Private Banking clients to invest in, guiding investment advisors on matters of research and advisory

May 2000 – Oct 2009 · 9 yrs 5 mos

• To track the happenings of the Indian mutual funds industry and convert them into stories comprehensible for the common man and woman. Special focus on the ease of language to ensure that every technical term is adequately de-jargonised.
• In-charge of Outlook Money annual mutual fund rankings and star ratings and to consistently enhance the methodology to reflect the changing environment
• Conceived, ideated, launched and was in-charge of on-going maintenance of OLM50; Outlook Money’s curated list of 50 investment-worthy, mutual fund schemes for our readers
• Addressing readers’ queries on mutual funds (portfolio, processes and conceptual)
• Managing Anchor of the ‘Best Mutual Fund’ award categories of Outlook Money-NDTV Profit personal finance awards
• Co-authored the first edition of Outlook Money’s ‘The Layman’s Guide to Mutual Funds’, part of Outlook Money’s personal finance reference books
• Rose from the ranks of management trainee