Asset Management

Delivering steady returns through variety of focused funds with differentiated strategies

The Asset Management business focusses on delivering consistent, sustainable, and long term risk-adjusted returns with the underlying principle of capital growth and capital preservation, across three differentiated and performance driven product offerings - private equity, long only and alternate strategies.Each offering has a distinctive investment objective and an independent investment team, giving investors the ability to participate in growth areas of their choice.

Avendus has one of the largest alternative investment management platforms in India, and currently manages six funds under the three different product offerings with a total AUM in excess of USD 1 billion.

The three product teams together have 50 + professionals with deep industry expertise and a proven track record. The teams are supported by the organization’s collective knowledge, brand and network.

Strategies

Private Equity
Strategies

Funds under our private equity (PE) strategy invest in high-performing private companies resulting in majority or minority ownership stake in those companies. The return streams are frequently, much less correlated with indices than the returns available in classic public market investment opportunities.
Long Only
Strategies

The investment strategy is focused on delivering absolute returns for investors over the medium to long term, with a strong bias towards capital preservation by executing a carefully crafted long only strategy.
Alternate
Strategies

The strategy involves investing in listed equities as well as equity derivatives through Alternate Investment Funds (AIFs) to produce absolute returns with lower volatility than the overall stock market.

Transactions

Mar 2020

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Avendus advises Accion Labs on its strategic growth investment from TA Associates
Dec 2019

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Avendus Future Leaders Fund – I invests in Ujjivan Small Finance Bank
Sep 2019

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Avendus Capital advises Prodapt Solutions to secure investment from Affirma Capital
May 2019

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Avendus Future Leaders Fund makes its maiden investment in Bikaji Foods
Asset Management
October 2023

Diworsification: The trap no investor should fall into

The urge to hedge bets when it comes to asset classes or portfolios could lead to spreading oneself too thin, apart from the inherent risk of poor performance from a loss of focus. Consolidation may be a better way to go.
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Asset Management
September 2023

Surge in option trading: Is it a systemic risk or price stability tool?

There is increasing debate around the high volumes in the options segment, with many concerned that such high volumes may bring in market turmoil, but we believe that the rise in volumes will help ensure better price discovery, leading to price stabi...
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Asset Management
June 2022

How private capital will take the driver’s seat for entrepreneurship in India

In 2021, the Indian startup ecosystem witnessed record inflows of ~$65 billion in PE/VC investments. Alternate investments are increasingly becoming an integral constituent of portfolio allocations within India...
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Asset Management
March 2022

The transformation of India’s public equity markets through widespread digital adoption

This 'mainstreaming' of digitalisation will have a profound impact on India's public equity markets. Currently, new-age businesses already listed in public markets add up to a market cap of ~USD 70bn. Over the next few years, we could potentially see...
Read Time: 9 minutes
Asset Management
December 2021

Market-neutral strategy might click in 2022 as bulls and bears engage in a tug-of-war

After a few years of super-normal debt market returns (2015-2018), and now one of the best two-year period in a long time for equity markets (2020-2021), it is time to understand what lies in store for us, and how can one get attractive risk-adjusted...
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Asset Management
April 2021

Climate Change - A challenge transcending borders

How much more warming and how many more carbon emissions can the Earth tolerate before experiencing the most destructive effects of climate change? The entire earth – transcending boundaries – is at edge of catastrophic climate risks.
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Asset Management
September 2020

Covid has energized adoption of the digital ecosystem – and the change is likely to be permanent

The exigencies of the current situation are moulding our habits and our lifestyles. The Covid crisis has prompted a change in consumption behaviour on how and what we consume across categories and how we pay for them. These changes in user habits are...
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Asset Management
May 2020

Coping with the Upcoming Consumer Demand Contraction

With the Covid-19 pandemic, the entire consumption cycle has been disrupted and this is an unchartered territory for most consumer companies which have witnessed a decade of growth. It will take a massive and periodic fiscal stimulus for consumption...
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