Fund Manager Profile
Sandeep Tandon
Founder and Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of Quant Mutual Fund
Sandeep Tandon is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of Quant Mutual Fund, with over 27 years of experience in the Indian capital markets. An MBA in Finance, he began his career in 1992 at the Economic Times Research Bureau before holding pivotal roles at GIC Mutual Fund, ICICI Securities, and Kotak Securities, where he was instrumental in setting up equity derivatives desks. Tandon is widely recognised for pioneering the VLRT investment framework—a proprietary model focusing on Valuation, Liquidity, Risk Appetite, and Timing—which moves away from traditional "buy-and-hold" strategies toward dynamic, predictive analytics. Under his leadership, the AMC has grown its assets to nearly ₹89,000 crore by early 2026
