Monsoon Capital’s quantitative trading approach pays off

September 26, 2011  



In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, diversification has been key to the re-emergence of Monsoon Capital as a multi-product pan-Asian firm


If the name Phoenix hadn’t already been bagged by another fund manager, Monsoon Capital’s Gautam Prakash might have been tempted to take it. In 2007 the firm’s long-only small and mid-cap India Inflection Fund, launched in 2004, was exceeding expectations, gaining $500 million in the fourth quarter of that year to take assets under management to a dizzying peak of $1.6 billion – by no means small beer for a single-country Asian hedge fund. ...

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