Portrait of Kalpen Parekh, MD & CEO, DSP Mutual Fund

Kalpen Parekh

MD & CEO, DSP Mutual Fund

External guest author · Industry contributor

External guest author. Contributed articles to the FinEdge blog in a personal, industry-contributor capacity. Not a FinEdge employee, representative or reviewer, and not an endorsement of FinEdge.

Kalpen has over 19 years of experience in sales across client segments, distribution and marketing. He was previously Managing Director and Head of Sales & Marketing at IDFC Mutual Fund.

He has also served in Birla Sun Life Asset Management Company Limited and ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company Limited after beginning his career with L&T Finance Ltd.

Kalpen holds a Master's Degree in Management Studies in Finance from the Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, as well as a Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering from Bharati Vidyapeeth, Pune.

Insights Authored by Kalpen Parekh

26 Jun 2025

Long-Term Investing: Why the Right Behaviour Matters More Than the Best Product

28 May 2024

Steps to Construct a Great Investment Portfolio – A Guide for Smart Investors

What Kalpen Parekh Says About FinEdge

Indian investors have savings & aspirations. FinEdge, our partner for more than a decade, has built a very customer centric tech platform that enables them to reach lacs of Indian investors, with no barriers of geography. Being digital is easy, building trust in digital is not.
FinEdge has achieved this by bringing human touch in their interactions with investors around things that matter to consumers — their objectives & life purpose, their dreams, their anxieties and how money and right investing can help them achieve their goals.
They have used technology to make investing accessible & simple for their investors at the same time personalising portfolios in scale via human touch and well defined processes. We have shared values with FinEdge, Invest For Good. Wish them success in the journey of making many more happy investors.
Kalpen Parekh·MD & CEO, DSP Mutual Fund

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