Avendus Absolute Return Fund

Asset Management

Avendus Absolute Return Fund is a Category III Alternate Investment Fund (AIF) focused on innovative risk management strategies, with a goal of capital preservation. The fund seeks capital appreciation and positive returns in an efficient, risk-adjusted manner through long and short positions in equities and indices.

The fund led by one of India’s marquee fund managers - Andrew Holland and Vaibhav Sanghvi successfully managed equity, based on positive absolute return strategies with a view of low volatility, for over 10 years in all market scenarios.

The fund’s long-short strategy is intended to produce absolute returns with less volatility than the overall stock market and low correlation to conventional asset classes, across variety of market scenarios.

Vaibhav Sanghavi

Co-CEO, Avendus Capital Public Markets Alternate Strategies LLP

Piyush Shah

Managing Director, Avendus Capital Public Markets Alternate Strategies LLP

Bhautik Ambani

Managing Director, Avendus Capital Public Markets Alternate Strategies LLP

Tarun Kewalramani

Director, Avendus Capital Public Markets Alternate Strategies LLP

Overview-

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Asset Management

July 2018

India: top of the class investment destination

There is one aspect of investment that all practitioners of this noble art share, which is an immediate attraction to markets that have performed well historically, over those that have done poorly.

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Asset Management

March 2019

What is ESG Investing?

Abhay Laijawala, Fund Manager, Avendus India ESG Fund in conversation with Melissa Brown, Advisor to the Avendus India ESG Fund and a Board Member of Sustainalytics, a global leader in ESG and corporate governance research and ratings.

View Time: 13 minutes

Asset Management

December 2018

India’s entrepreneurial revolution, through the lens of a UK resident

Investors in far-away markets suffer because they are fed information through a lens of how that country is behaving politically in relation to the rest of the world. This tells you virtually nothing about the real outlook.

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Asset Management

June 2018

Equity play in a volatile market

Andrew Holland sees the prevalent volatility lasting for at least six months and suggests safe havens to park your wealth.

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Investment Banking

March 2019

AWS Cloud Services: Adding thunder to cloud computing industry

Technology industry is growing faster than global GDP with tech firms leading the list of most highly-valued companies in financial markets across the world. Cloud computing is one of the secular macroeconomic trends driving this USD 3.8 trillion industry.

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Investment Banking

January 2019

How India's services sector is a perfect springboard for automation

Voice recognition software monitors quality of interaction between humans and the external world and has the ability to escalate matters and intervene in real time. Gone are the days where supervisors walked the aisles to troubleshoot.

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Investment Banking

December 2018

How can the auto-component industry survive the new emission norms challenge?

The Indian automotive industry is quickly gearing up for a major technology transformation owing to escalating environmental issues.

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Investment Banking

October 2018

Search for the next Indicorn

The stars seemed all aligned for the birth of digital unicorns from India. Let’s call them the Indicorns.

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