Rishi has over 21 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, being the pioneer in options strategies and managed futures research for India in his institutional broking days from 2004-2006 to starting and running the first quantitative hedge fund in India in 2007 & the first systematic managed futures fund in Asia 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. Rishi is currently the Managing Partner & CIO for the Hedge Fund Strategies of Alternatives business at InCred. 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 quants 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 in the institutional buy-side industry for quant-based investing in India. He holds an MBA from IIM Lucknow and Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kanpur. He has a lot of market firsts to his credit. Being the pioneer in options strategies, and managing futures research for India in his institutional broking days from 2004-2006 to starting and running the first quantitative hedge fund in India in 2007 & the first systematically managed futures fund in Asia in 2011 at ProAlpha. As part of US-based Monsoon Capital, where he had many global institutional investors offshore and some of the biggest Indian family offices onshore as investors and clients.
