Fund Manager Details

Arihant Jain

Bachelor of Engineering (Hons), BITS Pilani CFA Charter Holder, CFA Institute

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Portfolio Manager/Senior Investment Analyst-Franklin Templeton Services (India) Pvt Ltd (based in Mumbai 2022-2025)  Daily oversight of live portfolios; track quantitative model outputs and identify significant drifts or anomalies, adjusting strategies as necessary to maintain alignment with investment objectives.  Partner with traders to ensure timely and efficient execution of trades, minimizing transaction costs and market impact.  Work closely with Compliance and Back Office functions to ensure portfolios operate within regulatory frameworks and adhere to internal fund guidelines.  Design solutions and the management of data processes for investment systems and implementation of quantitative models geared to factor based (traditional and ESG) quantitative equities, risk premia, multi asset portfolios and/or Volatility management  Work with Investment Platform team and other technology professionals both externally and internally  Work with Research, Global Portfolio Managers, and Investment Platform teams to design products and custom solutions for institutional portfolios  Work cross-functionally with investment professionals to refine and improve existing investment processes, enhancing overall quality, performance, and efficiency.  Helping in providing thought leadership in the portfolio construction, traditional quantitative, ESG and alternative factors  Work on conducting and delivering top notch research projects with applications to quantitative strategies Senior Associate - MSCI (based in Mumbai 2020-2022)  Involved in Quantitative research that supports new and existing indexes, including factor indexes.  Co-authored two paper - o Value's Lost Decade: Learning from Value Strategies' Behavior over Two Contrasting Decades o Managing Portfolios in a Low Rates Age Analyst - Morgan Stanley (based in Mumbai 2018-2020)  Involved in developing market neutral strategy for the equity market, to extract alpha. Quant Research Analyst - Quant One (based in Kolkata 2017-2018)  Devised a strategy based on long-term momentum indicator and optimized the results using machine learning to effectively capture alpha in the market.