RISHI KOHLI

Co-Founder

Rishi has over 22 years of experience in the Indian financial markets heading both sell-side and buy-side businesses in the public equity markets space. He has a lot of market firsts to his credit with being the pioneer in options strategies and managed futures research for India in his institutional broking days from 2001-2006 to starting and running India’s first quantitative hedge fund in 2007 & Asia’s first systematic managed futures fund in 2011 at ProAlpha, as part of US-based Monsoon Capital where he has had many global institutional investors offshore and some of the biggest Indian family offices onshore as investors and clients. Rishi has run various hedge fund strategies across India and Asia with a focus on quantitative and systematic strategies and has won many global awards in the past for running the Best New Asian Fund and Best Managed Futures Fund in Asia besides one of the quant Funds being managed by him being ranked in the Top 10 funds globally in its category in 2020 due to capturing strong market returns in the sharp Covid related market crash.

Rishi is currently the Managing Partner & CIO of the Hedge Fund Strategies business at InCred Capital. His prior stint was at Avendus where he was the Managing Director & CIO of Quant Strategies within their hedge fund unit and helped Avendus launch a couple of quant-based long-short strategies in a short span of time.

Rishi has been a speaker at many global quant and hedge fund conferences like Quant Invest in Paris, Hedge Funds Asia in Hong Kong, MFA Conference in Miami, VCCircle’s PE/VC Summit in Mumbai and AIWMI’s Alternatives Summit in Mumbai.

Rishi’s comments and interviews are regularly featured on various television media like CNBC and ET Now as well as various leading financial newspapers and magazines like Economic Times, Business Line, Outlook Money and Business India. He is one of the most prominent faces on the institutional buy side industry for quant-based and systematic investing in India.

He holds an MBA from IIM Lucknow and Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kanpur.

Pankaj Mani

Co-Founder

Pankaj Mani is the President of Delhi (India) Society of CQFI (Fitch Group), which is the world’s largest and most reputed Quant Finance Community created by the world-renowned Paul Wilmott (Oxford University). He is also an Executive Committee member of India Chapter of the globally recognised body Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP). He is Managing Director at RealWorldRisk, where he advises and consults globally & locally reputed institutions in Quantitative domains.

His areas of expertise are Randomness, Scientific, Causality based Strategies, Risk Taking, Management, Behavioural, Stress/Happiness Adjusted Strategies, Black Swan,Tail Risk Hedging, ESG, UN SDG, Sustainability, AI/ML, Quant,Quant+Fundamental, Quantamental Factors , Performance Analysis, Mathematical & Statistical Modelling etc. His strategies have done great in markets over the years.

He is a globally acknowledged unconventional researcher having collaborated and engaged in in-depth discussions with some of the leading quant and finance names worldwide including Nobel Laureates, Celebrated Experts, Professors, International Best Selling Authors Practitioners as well as Senior Govt. Policymakers in India. He is one of the only quant and risk management professionals in India who is involved in world-class cutting-edge research works in these areas.

He has recently authored an important book “Scientific Investing in Real World: Unifying the Extremes: Randomness & Determinism: Causality: Black Swan and Tail Risk Hedging” to address some important fundamental issues in financial investment and risk management domain affecting huge investment globally in the domain of Factor Investing over the last 50 years.

He is also contributing Author to the World’s prestigious Wilmott Magazine(Wiley Publishing) where original new influential research works are published by some of the world’s leading celebrated experts in the field of Quantitative Finance, Risk Management etc.

He has recently proposed an improved and extended approach to resolve the key fundamental limitations of the earlier Nobel Prize winning famous work on Human Behavior and Decision Making under Uncertainty, which is related to centuries old theory having important implications for financial world as well.
He has also done some groundbreaking research on Relativistic aspects of Data Analysis and Statistics having important applications for quantitative area and others as well.
His strategies have done quite well having sailed through different Tail events, Black Swan events over the years.

He often delivers talks and trainings at internationally reputed platforms having participants from reputed organisations like Goldman Sachs, SBI, ICICI, Leading Universities, CFA, MBA, FRM, PhDs, CQF, NYU, Columbia, IITs, IIMs etc. He holds some of the world’s top qualifications in finance, risk, mathematical finance.

His other areas of interests are understanding and exploring Nature, Social Dynamics, Consciousness, Neuroscience, Spiritual aspects, Philosophy among others.