Santosh Kamat

MD & CIO, Fixed Income

Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund

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Santosh Kamath oversees the fixed income investment functions of the locally managed and distributed debt products at Franklin Templeton. He joined Franklin Templeton Investments in 2006 and has over 15 years of investment and research experience in the Indian Asset Management Industry.

Prior to joining Franklin Templeton Investments, Santosh was the CIO at ING Investment Management (India) - Fixed Income (2003-2006) responsible for overseeing fixed income fund management and managing specific funds. Prior to that, he was fund manager at Zurich Asset Management Company (India). (2000-2003) and responsible for overseeing fixed income fund management. Prior to Zurich AMC, Santosh was the head of capital market research at CRISIL Ltd and responsible for developing specific tools for financial markets and Financial Research (1997-2000). From 1995 to 1997, he was the fund manager at Jardine Fleming India Asset Management Ltd and responsible for research and managing Indian specific funds and offshore funds. Prior to that, Santosh was the fund manager at SBI Funds Management from 1993 to 1995 and responsible for managing Asian Convertible Income Fund (ACIF).

Santosh is an electronics & telecom engineer from REC, Bhopal (1990) and earned his M.B.A. from XLRI, Jamshedpur (1993). Prior to his M.B.A., he had a brief stint at Steel Authority of India Limited (S.A.I.L).

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