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It gives me immense pride to announce that quant is the first in India to receive the SEBI approval for a Specialized Investment Fund (SIF). This product category is designed for sophisticated investors with higher risk appetite, those well-versed with financial markets and seeking more evolved investment strategies. The combination of long & short positions, extensive derivatives strategies and advanced risk mitigation tools at the core of SIF's investing is built to lower volatility and lesser drawdowns. quant plans to launch India's first SIF strategy — the 'qsif Equity Long-Short Fund' in September 2025. Additional equity and hybrid SIF offerings are also planned for the coming months. In parallel, my team and I will focus on investor education for these products.


For me, the money management business has always been about trust. From quant's inception I have been clear that our processes, the team, best practices - everything must be aligned with the ultimate goal of increasing your trust and confidence in quant's style of investing. My guiding vision 'Being Relevant' is precisely about how to become more trustworthy: to stay relevant and grow real wealth, with sustainability and integrity as the driving force. The significant growth of inflows we have seen is a testament that this vision has been accepted by you, for which I express my heartfelt gratitude.


I took over the AMC from Escorts management in June 2018 and by March 2020, the digital journey of quant MF started, our equity MuM was INR 35 crores. Today, our equity MuM exceeds INR 96000 crores, with nearly 96 lakh investors a part of the quant family. The differentiated thought process, company ethics, adaptive decision-making and brand equity - have struck the right chord and that is the greatest encouragement for the team.


For living up to this belief shown by all of you, the clearest path is to remain agile and adaptive. Right from the multi-manager investment style to the asset-light operational model, adaptability is ingrained at quant. Without the right platform, such as our 'quantamine', investment frameworks – VLRT & MARCOV and host of 'Predictive Analytics' tools, it is only going to get more and more challenging to see beyond the obvious and capitalise the opportunities when others are hesitant.


If you were to ask me what keeps all of us excited at quant, it is such opportunities to radically change many of the wrong, preconceived notions that the textbooks continue to teach us. There is collective denial around the world, but the relentless nature of change will force everyone to adopt the new paradigm. I ask you the same question that I have asked myself throughout my career – should we not expand and codify our perspective to benefit from what is inevitable?

To build ourselves towards a higher perspective, it is vital to have a differentiated and multi-dimensional approach, not just in the markets but in all endeavours of life. That is why quant follows a continuously evolving and dynamic style of money management.


The role that technology plays as the disruptive innovator in other industries, research plays that role in the markets. A plethora of books and theories have been written on generating 'alpha', while missing the simple truth that in markets, alpha comes as a byproduct of innovation in research. This quest for alpha is the fuel in quant's engine of innovation. For me, innovation is not the end goal but a means to actively disrupt the old-guard way investing is done.


quant has been built as an analytics firm from its inception. More than a decade ago, as Big Data began revolutionising, we were one of the pioneers in applying it to the markets through our 'Predictive Analytics' suite of indicators. Today, that capability is embodied as 'quantamine'. It is our in-house data analytics and risk management platform created and maintained by quant Global Research (qGR), the analytical division of quant Mutual Fund. Being the first to capture the future trend of data science in money management, reflects in both our organizational growth and scheme performances of the past five years. I even go so far as to say that 'Objectivity is our religion and data is God.’ Objectivity is sacred—and only the measurable is truly reliable as behavioral biases and the tendency towards 'groupthink' makes many people mistakenly perceive subjective theories and opinions as facts. I have a strong conviction in the research and analytical capabilities of my team that I have built at quant with the 'quantamine' platform. Built by our own data scientists for our growing AMC, quantamine enables unique ability, deep flexibility, optionality and interoperability among different users and specialists to make more informed decisions, see through risk and build an opportunistic mindset.


quantamine brings together sophisticated risk analytics, pre & post trading analytics and a comprehensive suite of operating tools. It has taken thousands of man hours of software development and it incorporates massive data of the global financial markets.


Over the years, we have incorporated great depth & breadth in analytical tools in quantamine with our data scientists and data analysts for all asset classes. quantamine underscores the importance of holistic and pragmatic analytics in a real-time environment for cross assets and cross markets. And thus, enhancing the flexibility in asset allocations, performance and risk metrics.


Another cornerstone of my approach is the VLRT framework for the mutual fund, which has been successful in implementing Cross-Asset, Cross-Market analysis. These tools enable a multi-dimensional and dynamic way of understanding the markets through implied data with a relativistic lens. It's a powerful insight and our pursuit of 'Predictive Analytics' by connecting the dots is the engine that drives our investment framework. The 'Adaptive Alpha' methodologies we have pioneered have been developed in anticipation of a transformation such as the one we are witnessing now.


There is great curiosity and scepticism in the MF industry about quant's money management style. It is natural, because we are revolutionary in what we do – timing the market to mitigate risk in the short term, helping wealth grow faster in the long term. Our investment framework is structured to mitigate existing risks and not to take on additional unwarranted risks. We might underperform at times, which helps us continuously evolve our systems for more optimal risk management. Though no framework can fully remove market risks, but quantamine is designed to support better risk management.


At quant, 'Timing is Everything and Everything Else is Conjecture.' Our regular investors and followers have understood the importance of 'Timing Analytics' as a risk mitigation tool and it helps both the investors and the distributors to not only seek superior opportunities in the markets but also manage risk optimally. Timing comes from our data-intensive 'Predictive Analytics' as we are just trying to get the odds on our side. Mathematically, we seek to increase the probability of winning trades instead of depending on assumption-based forecasts of an individual's guesses. quant's 'Predictive Analytics' teaches and incorporates all the techniques which are futuristic in nature and have predictive power.


All this has helped us become the outliers. About eight years ago, our differentiated research in Earth Analytics, Volatility and Liquidity Analytics, and Cycles Analytics, clearly showed times of great upheaval ahead. When the volatility regime was identified in 2017, we fine-tuned and patiently observed the other dimensions of our framework till there was optimal confluence. In June 2019, we published the Big Reset thesis in the first book of ‘Being Relevant' series, as a word of caution to all investors because the VLRT Framework, especially quant's Cycles Analytics, had confirmed the importance of 2020 as the year of historic upheaval. The ability to adapt by itself becomes the source of alpha as it mitigates risk in high volatility regimes. Our Big Reset thesis played out quite well in 2020 and today, many of our schemes have delivered strong performance over longer time frames, though past performance may not continue in the future.


Having earned the trust of 96 lakh people, I present this book as a curtain-raiser for the next chapter of investing with quant – through qsif (offered by quant mutual fund) powered by our MARCOV investment framework on quantamine. This coffee table book examines the key trends for the world and understand their impact on markets. There will be many bouts of volatility regimes, great rallies and corrections due to radical earth changes and geoeconomic shocks. I know you will find these analytics to be interesting and the aim is to have you prepared for what lies ahead. I want to convey that this entire analysis is based on applied mathematical and econometric models, multiple cycles, applied physics and behavioural science.


It is meaningful what we have developed – almost like an awakening for me, personally, and all of us here at quant. I earnestly hope it feels like a revelation for you as well!


The need to adapt has never been greater and the opportunities, which we can clearly see over the next few decades, need a keen eye and decision-making with conviction and agility. It is my earnest hope that in sharing this fresh new perspective on the world, I can add to the winds of change that are gathering pace. As money managers, trust is the ultimate currency. To continue earning your trust, my team and I intend to keep innovating and transforming the money management industry.


Welcome to qsif!



Sandeep Tandon

Founder & Chief Thought Officer

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