Market Meter is our focused research/market survey initiative, with an aim to gather empirical data, conduct objective analysis, and drive insights, with a goal to serve as a guide that can effectively shape social and financial inclusion initiatives by developing benchmarks that can be leveraged and shared with others to advance societal goals.
We have developed market surveys to drive focused insights in 4 key areas: 1) financial independence, 2) financial education/literacy, 3) student loans, and 4) investing behaviors. Below, you can find and take our surveys on the above subjects/domains.
Score Your Financial Health
Understanding/considering your financial health, which assesses your ability to manage financial pressures and accomplish your long-term goals, is incredibly important to forming the basis for actionable steps towards improving your financial health, and therefore overall financial/economic well-being.
To gain a better understanding of your financial health and current financial situation/starting point, you can take the following eight-question quiz/questionnaire, leveraging the Financial Health Network FinHealth Score® Toolkit, by clicking the button below.
Take the financial education in schools survey below!
Student Loans and Financial Education Survey
Take the student loans and financial education survey below!
Investing Behavior Survey
Take the investing behavior survey below!
Raj Mehta, Founder & CEO
Raj Mehta is the Founder and CEO of the Fluid Ice Foundation. As a high school student in the Atlanta metro, Georgia, Raj always enjoys helping others, and aspires to give back to society at every opportunity that comes along. Raj is particularly passionate about financial inclusion, to expand access to financial services to the un/underbanked subsets of the population. Although the un/underbanked subsets of the population have always been excluded, the recent COVID pandemic has made it even more apparent, and caused them to be even further left behind. Raj sees himself as a “social impact catalyst” and a “changemaker” to help mitigate the financial divide, and he aims to make this a reality through his nonprofit – Fluid Ice Foundation. Raj is also a CFEI Certified Financial Education Instructor helping increase financial literacy awareness and education, especially amongst the underprivileged youth.
Raj is focused to be a social impact entrepreneur/innovator, championing sustainable innovation by transforming societal assets/capital to enable disruptive solutions providing a positive return to society.
On a more personal note, Raj enjoys mathematics and has won numerous prestigious math competitions (qualified to Mathcounts Nationals to represent the State of Georgia, AIME, AMC, etc.), is a proficient saxophonist (member, Georgia Music Educator’s Association (GMEA) Allstate Band), is an advanced chess player, and a professionally trained/skilled golfer. He is also an avid book reader in his spare time.
Vijay is the Banking and Capital Markets Leader for Deloitte South Asia. He has over 25 years of consulting experience spanning strategy, business planning, organizational transformation and M&A in India, as well as in Canada, the UK and South East Asia. Among other topics in banking and capital markets, he has significant experience in fintech solutions and related partnership models.
Vijay is also a founding team member of I_Imagine_India, an India-based philanthropic fund looking to empower non-government organizations and social entrepreneurs/pioneers in the field of education in India. I_Imagine_India’s goal is to enable small changes today in the field of primary/ pre-primary education, with the potential to deliver disproportionate learning outcome improvements over the longer term.
Vijay obtained an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (PGPX) and the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charter from the USA.
Vijay is an Advisor to the Fluid Ice Foundation in his personal capacity and not on behalf of Deloitte or I_Imagine_India.
Saiprasad Muzumdar, Advisor
Saiprasad ‘Zoom’ Muzumdar, is an experienced Senior Technology Leader in International Banking and Finance Sector. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and a Master’s degree in Management. He has worked across the globe for International Fortune 500 companies such as Unisys, Citigroup, Lehman Brothers, Nomura, Royal Bank of Scotland/NatWest Group. He has conducted sessions on Financial Wellbeing for more than a decade with a mission to enhance financial inclusion and financial wellbeing through Financial literacy.
Amit Pandit, Advisor
Amit is a qualified chartered accountant with over 25 years of experience in banking, financial services, capital markets, risk advisory services & financial education. He has experience in building a primary market distribution network, investment banking and handling HNI relationships. He has been involved in personal finance restructuring of many individual businessmen. He has helped many business and individuals for their financial requirements be it for loan arrangements or debt management or asset management. He served as a director of the largest coop bank in India for over 13 years and as a director of a listed company for over 5 years.
He is also associated as a visiting faculty with various business schools for over a decade and takes up subjects of Personal Finance Planning, Wealth Management, Mergers & Acquisitions & Corporate Valuation. He also takes corporate training programs for finance. He speaks at various platforms on various finance, audit and risk related topics including ICAI, BCAS etc. Amit looks after the business building, financial & investor education function at Trugrow.
Amit enjoys his reading, is passionate about his teaching, likes travelling and exploring new destinations and is an avid foodie.
