Hedge Fund Awards 2016 19 ArthVeda Capital is dedicated to supporting clients and creating innovative, unique asset management solutions. In our quest to provide our clients with superior investing products, we are ushering in a new era of investing with our proprietary ArthVeda Smart Alpha™ framework because we believe that one cannot tackle today’s problems with yesterday’s solutions. Smart Alpha is a patent pending, structured value investing™ framework that generates investment grade equi- ty™ strategies for all market-caps across US and international markets. ArthVeda Capital has a wide portfolio and manages listed equity funds with a value-oriented tilt in the investment management process. Typically, our funds invest in a structured approach in high quality securities available at discounts to their intrinsic values. Our strategy aims to offer enhanced return potential coupled with risk mitigation stemming from a systematic reduction in business, financial, capital allocation and price risks. As such we primarily invest in high quality, undervalued listed equities. Our rigorous analysis across various time periods in history, multiple capitalizations and geographies is unique and insightful. Covering all bases and ward- ing away many biases, we can observe that Smart Alpha, our over-arching structured value investing™ process is able to sustainably and systematically harvest pure alpha. Our backbone investment framework, Smart Alpha is a rules-based technique to systematically deliver investment grade equity i.e. a pool of risk-mitigated securities that at the same time is capable of potentially delivering robust returns going forward. Smart Alpha weeds out the various risks involved in the portfolio creation but instead of the conventional risk return profile of resulting in lower returns, actually delivers higher expected return. Overall our philosophy in terms of investing remains identifying mispriced pockets of inefficiencies in the market via a structured, rules-based approach. We uncover stocks with robust business model, competitive advantages and mitigated risks so as to create a systematic portfolio at a discount to intrinsic value boasting of superior fundamentals and inexpensive valuations. With regards to investor relations our key approach is integrity, thought leadership and execution. As a fund man- agement company we promote and nurture innovation in an ethical framework while keeping clients at the core. We have exhibited high standards in investor servicing: • Conducting periodic portfolio review with investors. • Dedicated investor servicing team and call centre to provide support and address client queries. • Defined TAT’s for the different types of queries through an inbuilt escalation mechanism. • Transparent and clear operational process flows to ensure satisfactory experience for our clients. • Conducting various events, campaigns and roadshows to enable Investor education and use these events as feedback mechanisms. Moving forward we are entering the business of taking up global investment mandates. The funds will be managed across a mix of weighted ETFs (exchange traded funds), UCITS (for non-US investors) and separately managed accounts. We have taken our Smart Alpha suite of Indexes with the new Smart Style Box and the A-Z Guide to Investing to the market and are talking to several of the larger ETF issuers. Given the highly differentiated nature of the Smart Alpha indexes in terms of the robust value investing logic behind them and the resulting high risk-adjusted performance, a number of ETF issuers have shown interest. We are also getting interest from various other arenas including Options and Futures, UITs, Closed-Ended Funds, ETNs, and discretionary or managed accounts. Within 2016 we expect to carve out a strong niche in the investment management space in general and specifi- cally within the ETF community. The last 3-5 years were the years of Smart Beta. In 2016 we expect to take the ETF community to the new era beyond Smart Beta, i.e. into Smart Alpha. Given the strong foundations of Smart Alpha in the Graham and Buffett style fundamentally-oriented value investing we expect Smart Alpha to be a better alternative than traditional active management providing replicable, rules-based adherence to sophisticated Discount to Intrinsic Value approach without the human behavioural biases of the active fund managers. We expect to continue our top performance in the hedge fund and private account strategies space using our Smart Alpha Framework. For the US markets, our framework is able to beat majority of mutual funds, conventional index ETFs, Smart Beta ETFs and the Value Master – Warren Buffett – himself. Specifically, our US large-cap index – AULVV (calculated by NYSE), over the nearly 11 year period since 2003, outperforms Berkshire Hathaway by about 2%-3% p.a. Further to attest to Smart Alpha’s market pervasiveness, the framework has been applied across geographies and market capitalizations, resulting in excess returns of 2%-10% p.a. over benchmarks coupled with high probability of outperformance and strong capital preservation. As per Preqin, the Indian alternative fund market has witnessed rapid expansion in the past year as a result of the growing opportunities in the region. It has been reported that the Indian alternative fund sector has nearly doubled over the course of 2014. Going forward, we are initially primarily targeting the US equity ETF market. As a precursor to this we have already launched eight indices maintained by NYSE (AULVV, AKLVV, ABLVV, AJLVV, AUTDI, AXLDI, AGLDI, AUTXA). Company: ArthVeda Capital Name: Vikas Gupta Email:
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