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"Most market participants chase alpha but get risks, while one could chase safety and get alpha"

OmniScience Capital

The Science of Alpha from Safety

OmniScience Capital is a Global Investment Management firm specializing in global equity investments empowered by its proprietary Scientific Investing Philosophy. OmniScience Capital was founded with a view to bring a scientific approach to investment management.

The core insight on which OmniScience Capital is based, i.e. the OmniInsight, is that a systematic approach to enhancing safety, i.e. eliminating and mitigating the chances of permanent loss of capital, naturally leads to enhancing returns and generating alpha. Know more about us.

Global by Design

Our vision is to provide global investors with global opportunities via SuperNormal Portfolios for US, Europe, India and Transformative Technologies.
OmniScience helps non-Indian investors to invest in the US and Indian markets. OmniScience focuses on investing in listed global companies leveraging transformative digital technologies like AI, IoT, 5G, Cloud, and Big Data to drive business and economic transformation. Learn More

Scientific Investing

Scientific Investing creates a SuperNormal Portfolio designed to survive and thrive through uncertainties, delivering optimal “Return on Safety".
It is based on a deep immersive research and analysis of 100+ years of investment management history combined with experience of investing over multiple cycles across different markets. OmniInsight emerged from the above research and is at the crux of the Scientific Investing Philosophy and the resulting framework. Learn More

Investment Focus

The investment focus of OmniScience Capital is on the US equity markets, the Indian equity markets and Transformative Technology.

US Markets
- US Multi-cap Allocation
- US Artificial Intelligence Allocation
Indian Markets
- India Multi-cap Allocation
- India Digital Transformation Allocation

About The Team

Dr. Vikas Gupta

CEO & Chief Investment Strategist

Vikas founded OmniScience Capital to provide a scientific approach to equity investments in Global & Indian stock markets. The application of 100+yrs of investment research to investment management over multiple market cycles led him to the OmniInsight that is the is the crux of Scientific Investing.

He holds a B.Tech (IIT Bombay), MS & Doctorate (Columbia University, New York). Vikas is regularly quoted & interviewed and invited to contribute in global, US & Indian publications.

Ashwini Shami

Executive Vice President & Portfolio Manager

Ashwini co founded OmniScience Capital to bring Scientific Investing to global markets. The “Science of Alpha from Safety” is part of his investment DNA germinating early in his career in the IFFCO Tokio Actuarial team in the form of “risk consciousness”

At his previous firm, he led a 7 member team working closely with NYSE and Reuters globally launching 12 strategies providing exposure to US, EU, UK & Japan across large, mid & small cap.

He holds an MBA (IIM Lucknow & Toulouse Business School, France) & B.Tech. from IIT Bombay.

Varun Sood

Vice President – Quantitative Research

Varun co-founded OmniScience Capital with a view to apply Scientific Investing across US, EU, UK & India, analysing nearly 5000 firms & creating SuperNormal portfolios.

Previously at Trefis , he was responsible for covering US Tech and Defense stocks (Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Google, Amazon, etc.). He wrote over 200 company & sector specific articles published and syndicated to international publications such as Forbes & E Trade.

He has a B.Tech. (IIT Roorkee) and MBA (IIM Bangalore & EDHEC France).

Team OmniScience

The team is led by Dr. Vikas V Gupta who provides the philosophical foundation for the Scientific Investing Framework. He heads the invest strategy function and works with the portfolio management team to oversee the current portfolios. He also supervises the research function and works with the research team to develop new investment strategies.

Ashwini Shami leads the portfolio management and manages the client portfolios.

Varun Sood leads the research on developing and maintaining the Scientific Investing research platform which generates the existing and new investment strategies.

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