Sandeep Tandon
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer
Quant Capital
Profile:
Sandeep Tandon is the founder of the quant group and has consistently demonstrated his leadership qualities in his 20 years of experience in the financial services industry. He pioneered derivatives in India, and was instrumental in successfully setting up an equity derivatives desk at leading brokerage houses in the country. Before dreaming about quant capital, Sandeep was heading the derivatives team at Kotak Securities (a JV partner of Goldman Sachs in India), and during his four-year stint at the company, Kotak Securities emerged as the market leader in the institutional derivatives segment. He has been instrumental in catapulting REFCO (now Philip Securities) to become a major derivatives house in the country.
Sandeep’s previous stints include a key role in setting up the equity derivatives desk at ICICI Securities as vice president. He started his career with the Economic Times Research Bureau, a research wing of the leading financial daily of India, The Economic Times. He later joined IDBI Asset Management (now Principal Asset Management), and was part of the core team that initialized asset management, playing a key role in devising, conceptualizing and marketing one of India’s most successful mutual schemes: IDBI I-NITS 95.
Sandeep strongly believes in the value adding possibilities of knowledge based market participation. Entry and exit calls based on sound market understanding to alpha, thus contrary to naysayers, timing is everything! It is for this reason he believes investor education is of utmost importance and the group has undertaken many initiatives in this regard. Besides, Sandeep believes that deep domain knowledge and ability to filter through 'noise' through combined inputs from quant’s proprietary quantitative, qualitative and behavioral indicators enables to consistently identify market inflexion points and arrive at definitive micro and macro calls and he has focused his efforts towards successfully building these capabilities at quant.