Gaurav Mehta Email & Phone Number

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Mumbai Area, India

Currently working as a Research Analyst with GMO's Emerging Markets team, covering equities in Emerging Markets especially India & China. Highly motivated and detail-oriented fundamental analyst with 5+ years of experience uncovering hidden value and driving informed investment decisions through in-depth research and analysis. Proven track record of exceeding expectations, identifying profitable opportunities, and mitigating risk within target industry/sector. Skilled in financial modeling, data analysis, valuation techniques, and market research. Dedicated to continuous learning and staying abreast of current market trends.Assisted CIO in top-down decision making which included country-sector selection in Emerging Markets based on macroeconomic factors, Quantamental screeners, Speculation Index, Forensic scorecard that works across markets.Proven ability to leverage strong mathematical and statistical skills to solve complex financial problems, identify profitable trading opportunities, and manage risk effectively. Back-tested and optimized various quantitative trading strategies using historical data, identifying statistically significant alpha and managing risk exposure.

Mumbai

Worked in Institutional Equities: • Long-short pair ideas on the basis of statistically correlated pairs, mean divergence based methodology and fundamentals.• Monthly quant driven portfolio recommendation based on fundamental factors.• Co-integration based long-short portfolio focused on absolute alpha.• Basket of trading ideas suitable for different market conditions.• Screens for deep-value, growth, momentum, income, turnaround investing styles.• Monthly quant driven portfolio recommendation based on best performing fundamental factors.• As a member of the Institutional research desk, apprised clients of macro-economic factors, corporate actions and news impacting capital markets; and advised them on trading opportunities in cash-carry arbitrage, pair-trades, and directional trades.• Trading ideas after synthesizing fundamental rationales with purely quantitative/statistical criteria.• Writing various quality reports such as Hedge, Vital Insights, Volatility Insights, Style Analysis, and many more for Institutional investors.• Back testing and comparing various technical trading strategies

Handled team of 6 people while working in Moody's project.

Joined as Analyst Programmer in 2005 and later on promoted as Sr.Analyst programmer within 1 year.

Joined as Analyst Programmer in 2005 and started working in Mckesson(Healthcare) project.

Pgdbm, Finance

Activities and Societies: Core placement committee member, stood 1st in personality camp organised at khandala, regular participation.

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