The Rs 501 crore offer for sale, which successfully closed on March 19, saw promoter entity Hazel Infra divest a five percent stake. The offer was subscribed 1.2 times.
Accepting that losses can occur on short positions, while managing overall portfolio risk, is a learning curve the industry is now experiencing for the first time, Tandon says.
Market veteran and founder of Quant Mutual Fund said he is constructive on the markets and is taking opportunities wherever he sees
At the heart of this disruption is President Donald Trump, whose return to the spotlight, according to Tandon, is escalating volatility across asset classes.
As equity markets await further clarity from Trump’s tariff policy, Quant AMC is advicing to focus on longer term growth strategies, tilting towards large and mega largecap stocks while selectively increasing exposure to smallcaps.
Quant Mutual Fund said that while both economic and corporate data have shown signs of deterioration, these underwhelming indicators are largely priced into the markets.
The restructuring comes as Quant's growing corpus draws regulatory scrutiny, particularly concerning compliance and operational safeguards.
Adani Enterprises raised Rs 4,200 crore from institutional investors via a QIP. Quant Mutual Fund emerged as the largest investor, pouring in over Rs 1,973 crore into buying Adani Enterprises stock across its various schemes.
Since the past three months the construct of our quant MF portfolios are more skewed towards a mild risk-off environment, said Quant.
Domestic positives will outweigh global negatives and investors should be patient in terms of rewards expectations, said the fund house.
Quant Mutual Fund purchased shares worth Rs 3,669 crore in ITC in July. Simultaneously, the fund sold 2.95 crore shares in HDFC Bank, worth Rs 4,763 crore.
The mutual fund house conveyed this to the investors after sending out a mail earlier in the day, which clarified details about the market regulator's investigations into front-running allegations.
The mutual fund house has written to its investors on July 13, clarifying an answer given in its earlier communique in which it had described the regulator's operations as a "regular ongoing process"
Quant Mutual Fund has appointed a new Chief Financial Officer -- Shashi Kataria, who took charge after former CFO Harshal Patel resigned for personal reasons.
According to the report, during the period from June 24 to June 30, Quant’s schemes logged outflows of around Rs 2,800 crore.
Through an email dated June 27, the fund house answered a few questions on the regulator's inquiries
The founder and CIO spoke about the fund’s money-management style and the importance of relying on data.
Quant Mutual Fund has seen investors net redeeming net Rs 1,398 crore of their equity investments after the news of a SEBI investigating front running activity at the fund house.
He addressed stakeholders in a call on June 26
Most of the distributors stated that they have yet to activate any redemptions for their clients —either on their own or at the request of their clients.
Quant Mutual Fund may face the risk of larger redemptions than the normal-case provisions, but the fund house has a strong SIP book, diversified assets managed across a large number of investors, and highly liquid large cap stock holdings to shield it against a run on the fund.
A key differentiator for Quant has been the product, says Kumar, adding that “hopefully” there should not been much impact as a good idea “finds its takers”.
On June 23, Moneycontrol reported that Sebi has conducted search and seizure operations on Sandeep Tandon-owned Quant Mutual Fund suspecting front-running.
Redemptions may cause the fund to liquidate some of its most liquid positions
Quant runs the third largest small-cap fund in the country with assets under management of Rs 20,000 crore.