Mr. Janakiraman Rengaraju is Chief Investment Officer – Equity for Franklin Templeton Asset Management (India) Pvt Ltd. Mr. Rengaraju is responsible for overseeing all the local equity funds. His responsibility includes mentoring all the portfolio managers apart from continuing to be the Portfolio Manager for some of the key products. Mr. Rengaraju manages Franklin India Flexi Cap Fund, Franklin India Prima Fund, Franklin India Taxshield and Franklin India Smaller Companies Fund.

Mr. Rengaraju has been in the investment management Industry since 1997. He started his career with FT in 2007. Prior to joining Franklin Templeton, he was managing the investment corpus of Indian Syntans Group, a Chennai based privately held group of companies. Before this, he worked for UTI Securities, Mumbai.

 He is a CFA charter holder.