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Ep. 166: Deepak Gurnani on Building Winning Investment Strategies
- By Bilal Hafeez
- 1 min read
This episode is sponsored by Kalshi.Inc
Deepak Gurnani is the Founder and Managing Partner of Versor Investments – $2bn quantitative investment firm. Deepak is the former CIO of Investcorp’s Hedge Fund Group and was one of the founding members in 1996. He was also a member of the Management Committee there. Deepak retired from Investcorp in March 2013. Prior to Investcorp, Deepak Gurnani spent six years with Citicorp. In this podcast we discuss:
- Why quantitative over discretionary investing?
- How to overcome data-mining and over-fitted backtests
- The best way to implement trend following strategies
- Mistakes made by trend-followers
- What is merger arb and how it works
- How to implement a quantitative merger arb strategy
- ESG component of merger arb
- Why value investing has underperformed
- Importance of sector neutrality
- How to combine strategies
- Thoughts on AI
You can follow Deepak’s work here and here.
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