Harsh Agarwal

CEO

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India21 yrs 10 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Managed India's largest long-short equity fund.
  • Achieved high Sharpe ratios consistently.
  • Designed innovative research processes for equity strategies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Finance professional specializing in portfolio management and equity strategies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Portfolio ManagementInvestment StrategiesEquity Research

Other Skills

CommodityCommodity MarketsEconomicsHedge FundsInvestment ManagementLong short equity tradingRecruitment/RetentionRisk ManagementTeam BuildingTrading StrategiesValuation

About

Portfolio manager, strategist, and research process developer. Worked on equity strategies -Long Only and Long-Short for AMC, proprietary trading firms, hedge funds. Designed processes that would allow fusion of fundamental inputs with quantitative signals Specialties: - Equity investment/portfolio management - Absolute return, risk minimization and market direction agnostic investment strategies

Experience

Tata asset management

Head - Alternative Strategies

Nov 2018May 2024 · 5 yrs 6 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Managing India Long - short strategy.
  • Low drawdowns/correlation. High 3x Sharpe (thrice winner Best domestic Equity hedge fund manager).
  • Started and built the biggest domestic long short fund in the country
Portfolio ManagementLong short equity tradingRisk ManagementInvestment Strategies

Reliance securities limited a reliance capital company

Portfolio Manager - Equity long/short strategy

Nov 2014Nov 2018 · 4 yrs · Mumbai

  • Managed $40mn diversified equity market neutral book using combination of fundamental and statistical analysis
  • Low volatility/drawdowns/correlation with the market; returns were positive in ~80% of the months
  • High Sharpe of 3x
Portfolio ManagementLong short equity tradingRisk ManagementInvestment Strategies

India

Proprietary Equity Trader

Dec 2012Nov 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos · India

  • Ran a long-short (nearly neutral) portfolio including pair trades across sectors using stock futures (levers the portfolio gross exposure by 7x) with ending gross exposure of ~$0.7mn. Portfolio gained >500% over the two yr trading period, delivered high single digit Sharpe ratio, with negligible correlation with the index returns, using fundamental, momentum, and events based strategies
Long short equity tradingRisk ManagementInvestment Strategies

Vistasoft india

Principal Research Analyst

Jul 2006Oct 2013 · 7 yrs 3 mos · Chennai, India

  • Buy side equity research for Indian and globally listed equities with key focus on commodities/materials sector
  • Designed research processes to meet specific portfolio strategy objectives and merge the fundamental signals with quant strategies
  • Team building and Recruitment: Lead recruiter, of the team comprising >20 analysts
  • Funds worked for: Equitech, prop desk of Deutsche Bank (ran market neutral global equity portfolio), and Roc Capital management (globally largest hedge fund launch of 2009).
Equity ResearchTeam BuildingInvestment Strategies

Family business

Investments manager

Jun 2002Jun 2006 · 4 yrs

  • Managed family investments in different assets classes with focus on commodities

Icici prudential amc ltd

Intern

May 2001Jun 2001 · 1 mo

Education

Symbiosis Centre For Management and Human Resource Development

MBA — Finance

Jan 2000Jan 2002

ICFAI, INDIA

Certified Portfolio Manager

Jan 2000Jan 2002

Christ Church College, India

Bachelor's degree

Jan 1997Jan 2000

Seth Anandram Jaipuria school, Kanpur

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