Vikas Kapoor
8 Years at AB|32 Years of Experience
Vikas Kapoor is Head of AB Hedge Fund Solutions. He joined the firm in 2016. Previously, Kapoor was co-CEO and part owner of Ramius Alternative Solutions, which was acquired by AB in 2016. Before Ramius, he was a managing director at Arden Asset Management, focusing on portfolio construction and risk management, and was a member of Arden’s Investment and Management Committee. Earlier in his career, Kapoor was managing director of Deutsche Bank’s Absolute Return Strategies Group, where he headed the Quantitative Analysis and Applications Group. Kapoor holds an MS in computational finance from Carnegie Mellon University, an MBA (Hons) in finance from Tulane University and a BTech in mechanical engineering from Regional Engineering College, Kurukshetra, India. Location: New York
Published Work
Pooling the expertise of many hedge fund managers may help investors to generate consistent absolute returns over a full cycle.
Global interest rates have soared. So have volatility and dispersion across markets. We think it may be time to consider adding exposure to hedge funds and alternative strategies that don’t depend on market beta to generate returns.
The world of alternative strategies has been evolving fast, so investors need to understand the changes and their implications for portfolio design.