About Auroville Investment Management :

Auroville Investment Management (AIM) is a deep-fundamental bottoms-up, research-intensive, long/short equity oriented investment fund based in Hong Kong. The Fund has a global mandate though with a strong Asia thematic bias. The fund spun out in January 2017 from Tybourne Capital Management, a leading (~US$7 billion) Asia based hedge fund that spun-off out of Lone Pine Capital Asia, one of the best performing Tiger (cub) funds of all time. AIMs investment's strategy entails - Sector- as the primary axis of intellectual property (focused across 4 industry verticals: Consumer, Financials, TMT and Industrials) with - Country- as the secondary axis (focus on China, India, Japan, ASEAN, and US).

AIM's team brings together senior analysts from leading investment platforms and experienced operations and trading professionals from leading sell-side banks on the non-investment side. Auroville Investment Management is registered with the SEC in the US as a Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) and with the SFC in HK holding a Type 9 Asset management license. AIM's Fund Board, is chaired by Tracie Ahern, who was prior the long standing CFO of Soros Fund Management (2007-16). Goldman Sachs and Bank of America Merrill Lynch are the Prime Brokers for AIM's Funds. AIM holds platinum status with Bank of America Merrill Lynch and works with all the other major investment banks round the world and with the top regional/local IBs in Asia.

Media: more information can be found in a recent Bloomberg articles:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-03/auroville-hedge-fund-is-said-to-rise-on-stock-bets-since-debut

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-28/tybourne-capital-s-anand-said-to-plan-asia-focused-hedge-fund

Job Description :

In order to support our ongoing business growth, the Fund is now looking to hire an Investment Analyst to be based in Mumbai. The analyst will work on research projects, investment models, and data science tracking under the supervision of Investment Sector Heads (sector heads have >10 years of global investment experience). The analyst will be focusing on India with ideally a specialization in Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals Automotive, and Industrial sectors.

Major responsibilities include :

- The candidate will perform fundamental research, build and maintain detailed investment models on companies/sectors.

- While the investment analyst is supervised by Sector Heads, he/she will need to apply independent thinking and sound judgment in forecasting and using the firm's resources (access to senior managers, industry experts, sell-side broker contacts) in driving diligence processes and helping to arrive at sound investment conclusions.

- The candidate will have daily meetings with Sector Heads and Data Science Team and join weekly team-meetings with the investment team and debate recommendations.

Candidate requirements :

- Minimum 3-5 years of experience on sell-side or buy-side (preferred)

- A passion for investing and a demonstrated interest in specific Indian stocks. Superior analytical ability with a strong intuition and comfort around finance and valuation concepts. High IQ and team player

- Ideally graduated from a top business school or engineering program

- Demonstrated experience of shorting stocks

- Familiarity with Bloomberg and data tracking a plus

Please attach any Indian stock write-up in your application (not precondition for application)

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