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New India hedge fund focuses on consumer names

Friday, October 20, 2017

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Vineet Sachdeva
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers:

A newly-launched India focused fund has placed itself in a sweet spot by applying a strategies that are rare in that particular market, namely, factor-based systematic and market neutral.

The Elysium India Fund, managed by Mumbai-based Elysium Investment Advisors LLP, is an India focused, systematic, equity investment fund with the option of long-only and market neutral share classes. It has a long to medium term investment horizon and is designed to be highly liquid, well diversified and comprising high quality companies.

The Mauritius-domiciled fund was launched in August, but the strategy was started in December 2013 with managed accounts.

The only factor-based systematic manager investing in the Indian market

"We are the only factor-based systematic manager investing in the Indian market," fund manager Vineet Sachdeva tells Opalesque. "We are probably the only market-neutral fund in India - by market neutral, we mean that we have very low net (......................

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