He has more than 22 years of experience in the Capital Market. He joined BSLAMC as Chief Dealer/Trader, managed Hybrid Funds and moved on to Head Fixed Income group. He has also held the position of Country Head for Sales and Distribution before becoming the Chief Investment Officer and eventually heading BSLAMC as the Chief Executive Officer.
During the last several years, under his leadership, Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund has won several awards for delivering the best performance from external agencies such as CRISIL TV18, BNP Paribas, ICRA and Reuter Lipper. In the financial year 2008-09 with him as the CIO, BSLAMC won the coveted “Mutual Fund House of the Year” second time in a row becoming the only fund house in India to achieve this feat.
Prior to joining BSLAMC, he has worked with GIC Mutual Fund as Senior Trader and Canbank Financial Services as Senior Executive.
He has also been associated with Association of Mutual Funds of India as a member across committees like the Valuation Committee. He also has been part of SEBI Committee on Review of Eligibility Norms.
He has delivered guest lectures at SIES, Mumbai, IIM Bangalore for Executive Education Programme, Dalmia Institute of Management and Narsee Monjee Institute of Management.
Mr. Balasubramanian has done DFM and AMP from IIM Bangalore in addition to Bsc in Mathematics.