My guest for today is Vaibhav Sanghavi , Co-CEO, Avendus Capital Public Markets Alternate Strategies LLP. Vaibhav Sanghavi has an overall work experience of 18 years with deep domain expertise in hedge funds. As part of his role, he is the lead portfolio manager for all its funds and holds a track record of outperforming markets across cycles. His expertise in generating risk-adjusted returns in equities across strategies has played a key role in Avendus being able to secure its position as the largest onshore hedge fund in India. Vaibhav has made a significant contribution to the development of AIFs (Alternative Investment Funds) in India, being an advisor to and member of various industry bodies. Prior to joining Avendus, Vaibhav worked with Ambit Investment Advisors as a Managing Director where he was responsible for driving their hedge fund business. Before Ambit, he worked for 3 years with DSP Merrill Lynch’s strategic risk group and was responsible for managing their proprietary investments in equities amounting to USD 1 billion. Vaibhav is a Chartered Accountant and has graduated from Narsee Monjee College of Commerce and Economics, Mumbai. This episode is brought to you by multipie.co where we believe Investing is an ignored life skill and it's time to change it. Multipie is building up a platform where people can form community and learn, share , collaborate on growing their wealth using right tools. We want your hard earned money to work for you Show Notes: 1:20 Introduction to Vaibhav Sanghvi 2:55 What is a hedge fund 8:58 Hedge fund behaviour during times of volatility 11:20 Investing experience broken down 14:36 Value and growth investing 17:10 Investment stereotypes people need to break 22:23 Mental model/framework used while tracking funds 23:57 Love for chess 27:00 First stock vaibhav bought 28:23 Last bool vaibhav read 29:28 Investment idol 30:08 Life idol 30:56 Vaibhav Sanghvi in 5 years 31:50 ESG investing 34:25 On rise of retail investing 35:50 Mentorship advice