EQUIRUS LONG HORIZON FUND

Ashutosh has almost 20 years of experience of which 3 years were in manufacturing and 17 years in Equity Research. As an Analyst, he used to track Metals and Auto sectors and hence understands cycles in different sectors very well. In his career as Analyst, many of his best calls were counter consensus and hence he is a strong believer in Contra calls. As a founding member of Institutional Equities team at Equirus, he has been instrumental in building top notch research team which is well regarded by Investors for their bottom up research approach.

Mr. Viraj Mehta has more than 16 years of experience in Investment & Research. He is the CIO and Partner at Enigma Investment Partners LLP and has completed his PGDBM in Finance from MDI, Gurgaon, and B.E. in Chemical Engineering from Nirma Institute of Technology (Gujarat University), respectively. He was the Managing Director of Equirus Portfolio Management Services, where he was responsible for setting up the PMS (AMC business) and the team from scratch, and was managing capital of ~ Rs. 11bn for clients. Equirus Long Horizon Fund was one off the best performing PMS schemes delivering ~25% CAGR returns for its clients over his tenure. Prior to Equirus, he was associated with Franklin Templeton as lead analyst for managing the small companies fund, which was awarded the best small-cap MF scheme by CRISIL & Business Standard. He has also worked with ValueQuest Capital LLP.