Who is Vikas Agrawal?

Vikas Agrawal is the Founder and CEO of ALTPORT, India's research-led alternative investment platform, and the author of The Alternative Alpha. He spent over two decades in wealth management, including a seven-year run as Senior Group Vice President at Motilal Oswal Asset Management Company.

Founder & CEO, ALTPORT

Vikas Agrawal

Q: Why did Vikas Agrawal start ALTPORT?

During the COVID-19 volatility of early 2020, he saw a broken ecosystem: HNIs had no transparent way to find and compare boutique fund managers, and outperforming independent managers had no channel to reach aligned investors. He left his senior corporate role and launched AIF & PMS Experts India in April 2020, which was rebranded as ALTPORT in 2022.

Q: What was Vikas Agrawal's role at Motilal Oswal?

He served as Senior Group Vice President at Motilal Oswal Asset Management Company, where over a seven-year tenure he was instrumental in scaling the firm's AIF, PMS and mutual fund businesses.

Q: What is The Alternative Alpha by Vikas Agrawal?

The Alternative Alpha is Vikas Agrawal's book — a sophisticated investor's framework for alternative investments and long-term wealth creation, covering AIF, PMS and Gift City investing. It is available in hardcover on Notion Press and Amazon.

Q: How does ALTPORT evaluate fund managers?

ALTPORT's internal investment committee evaluates over 1,500 AIF, PMS and Gift City managers using the 3Is framework and the SOUL filter, which separates structural skill from short-term luck. Fewer than 2% of evaluated managers make the shortlist.

The man building India's most research-obsessed alternative investment platform — 22 years in capital markets, one book, and a conviction that process beats prediction.

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Ex-Motilal Oswal AMC Author, The Alternative Alpha Mentored by Raamdeo Agrawal

Vikas Agrawal, Founder and CEO of ALTPORT

1,500+Fund managers evaluated

Chapter One — The Stage

When India Talks Alternatives, He's Holding the Mic

Host of the AIF & PMS Conclave — the room where India's leading fund managers, HNIs and family offices meet. He doesn't attend the industry's biggest conversations. He convenes them.

Vikas Agrawal delivering the keynote at the AIF and PMS Conclave 3.0, Jio World Centre

Opening the AIF & PMS Conclave 3.0Jio World Centre, Mumbai

Vikas Agrawal moderating the MFD Growth panel at the FFFP SIF and AIF Meet

The Panel Circuit

Moderating the FFFP SIF & AIF Meet, alongside BSE-partnered forums

Among India's Best Investors

With Saurabh Mukherjea of Marcellus

Vikas Agrawal pointing at his book The Alternative Alpha listed on Amazon

The Author

The Alternative Alpha — his framework, now on Amazon and Notion Press

Vikas Agrawal addressing the audience at the AIF and PMS Conclave

The Voice of Alternatives

Commanding the room at his own conclave

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Chapter Two — The Journey

From Corner Office to Founder's Desk

Twenty years inside the machine. One pandemic. One decision that changed how India's wealthy invest.

Vikas didn't stumble into alternatives — he helped build the category. Rising to Senior Group Vice President at Motilal Oswal Asset Management, he spent seven years scaling the firm's AIF, PMS and mutual fund businesses, watching from the inside how private wealth actually moves. And he noticed something uncomfortable: the best of it was locked behind velvet ropes.

2000s → 2020

The Institutional Climb

Two decades in wealth management, capped by a seven-year run as Senior Group Vice President at Motilal Oswal AMC — instrumental in scaling its AIF, PMS and mutual fund businesses. A front-row seat to how sophisticated money is managed, marketed and gatekept.

The Formation

A Worldview Forged Beside Raamdeo Agrawal

Working within Raamdeo Agrawal's ecosystem, he studied how extraordinary wealth is structurally created — and why most investors never outpace inflation. The conclusion that stuck: process beats prediction, every decade. It became the DNA of everything he built next.

Early 2020

The Fracture COVID Exposed

As markets convulsed, he saw a broken ecosystem from both sides. HNIs hunting for boutique managers who could generate alpha in a crash had no transparent way to find or compare them. Brilliant independent managers beating their benchmarks had no channel to reach aligned investors. Between them: legacy wealth desks, high thresholds, opaque terms.

Vikas Agrawal in conversation with senior industry leaders

The rooms where allocations get decided — he wanted every serious investor inside

April 2020

The Lockdown Leap

Mid-pandemic, he walked away from the senior role and launched AIF & PMS Experts India — deliberately built as a research desk, not a sales desk. An internal investment committee began stress-testing India's active fund universe through the 3Is and SOUL frameworks, filtering structural skill from short-term luck before anything reached a client.

2022

AIF & PMS Experts Becomes ALTPORT

The platform outgrew its name. Rebranded as ALTPORT — one research-led home for AIF, PMS, Gift City, SIF and international strategies, registered with APMI (APRN00074).

Today

The ₹1,000 Crore Journey

From a lockdown zero-base to 1,500+ managers evaluated, fewer than 2% shortlisted, and investors across ten countries — a wealth journey his own mentor-story graphic sums up as 0 to 1,000 crores.

Vikas Agrawal honoured on stage at the AIF and PMS Conclave 3.0

Honoured on stage at his own conclave

Chapter Three — The Mentor

Shaped by Raamdeo Agrawal

Vikas Agrawal with his mentor Raamdeo Agrawal — the mentor, the student, and the pursuit of wealth creation — The mentor, the student, and the pursuit of wealth creation

"Fundamental thinking. Discipline. Long-term wealth creation. The lessons of a mentor–student relationship that still runs through every fund ALTPORT researches."

Few investors get to learn compounding from one of India's most respected market minds. Vikas's association with Raamdeo Agrawal has been the defining influence on his investment thinking — and the reason ALTPORT filters for skill over luck, process over prediction, decades over quarters.

Raamdeo AgrawalVikas's mentor in capital markets

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Chapter Four — The Recognition

The Industry Keeps Handing Him Trophies

From excellence awards to partner honours — the shelf keeps filling.

Vikas Agrawal holding the Outstanding Contribution award

Outstanding Contribution — honoured at an industry forum

Vikas Agrawal receiving a partner recognition trophy

Partner recognition, delivered in person

SIF, AIF & Mutual Fund Excellence Award

Industry recognition for contribution, transparency and innovation across SIF, AIF, PMS and mutual funds.

Indian Achievers' Award — Promising Start-Up

Bestowed by the Indian Achievers' Forum on AIF & PMS Experts India in its early scaling years.

Motilal Oswal Strategic Partner Recognition

Honoured by major asset houses for driving wealth strategy across India's alternatives landscape.

Best AIF & PMS Platform Recognition

Repeatedly cited on media circuits as one of India's premier dedicated alternative-investment platforms.

The Awards He Gives

When India's Fund Managers Earn Recognition, It Comes From His Hands

Through India's AIF & PMS Awards, hosted at his own conclaves, Vikas and his investment committee honour the country's top-performing fund houses — and a trophy is only earned after a strategy survives the SOUL framework: structural skill, not short-term luck. When fund managers want recognition, they come to his stage.

Vikas Agrawal presenting a certificate of appreciation to a senior fund manager at the AIF and PMS Conclave 3.0

Felicitating a senior fund manager

Vikas Agrawal honouring an industry CEO on stage at the AIF and PMS Conclave 3.0

Honouring industry leadership on stage

Vikas Agrawal presenting a memento to a partner fund house at the AIF and PMS Conclave 3.0

With partner fund houses, Conclave 3.0

Vikas Agrawal presenting a five-year completion trophy to an ALTPORT team member

Celebrating his own team's milestones too

Chapter Five — The Author

The Whole Philosophy, In One Book

New Release

The Alternative Alpha

A Sophisticated Investor's Framework for Alternative Investments and Long-Term Wealth Creation

Vikas Agrawal's practical framework for AIF, PMS and Gift City investing — process, not prediction. Everything ALTPORT stands for, distilled into one hardcover.

HardcoverBy Vikas AgrawalNotion Press

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Chapter Six — The Voice

Heard on Zee Business, Money TV & Paisa Vaisa

One story to start with, three interviews to go deeper — and a full library when you're hooked.

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The Philosophy

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Understand the investment. Understand the manager. Understand the risk. Then invest.

Vikas Agrawal — Founder & CEO, ALTPORT

Quality of the Manager Clarity of Philosophy Strength of Process Portfolio Construction Risk Management Long-Term Wealth Creation Continuous Learning

Questions People Ask

About Vikas, Answered

Founder and CEO of ALTPORT, India's research-led alternative investment platform, and author of The Alternative Alpha. Before founding the platform, he spent over two decades in wealth management, including seven years as Senior Group Vice President at Motilal Oswal Asset Management Company.

The COVID-19 volatility of early 2020 exposed a broken ecosystem: HNIs had no transparent way to find and compare boutique fund managers, while outperforming independent managers had no channel to reach aligned investors. He left his senior corporate role and launched AIF & PMS Experts India in April 2020 — rebranded ALTPORT in 2022.

Senior Group Vice President at Motilal Oswal Asset Management Company, where over a seven-year tenure he was instrumental in scaling the firm's AIF, PMS and mutual fund businesses.

Raamdeo Agrawal, one of India's most respected value investors. Working within his ecosystem shaped Vikas's core philosophy: disciplined, process-driven investing and long-term compounding over speculative market timing.

His book — a sophisticated investor's framework for alternative investments and long-term wealth creation, covering AIF, PMS and Gift City investing. Available in hardcover on Notion Press and Amazon.

An internal investment committee evaluates over 1,500 AIF, PMS and Gift City managers through the 3Is framework and the SOUL filter, which separates structural skill from short-term luck. Fewer than 2% make the shortlist.

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