5 Swans

WE ARE 5 SWANS

BORN INTO CREATIVITY

DRIVEN BY SCIENCE

STRIVING FOR EXCELLENCE

Who We Are

We are a quantitative trading and consulting firm. Mathematics, data mining and quantitative modelling is at the core of everything we do. Some key members are..

Sharath

Co-Founder & CEO

Sharath is the former Managing Director and CEO of Tower Research Capital India, one of the largest High frequency trading firms globally. Lately, he has co-founded and helped scale multiple algo-trading startups in India for proprietary trading and institutional money management. Sharath earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, India and has worked in various leadership roles across global banks (like ABN AMRO, Barclays Capital, Nomura) with a strong focus on building organization values and culture.

Rajnish

Co-Founder & Chief Tech

Rajnish lives and breathes Technology. He graduated in Computer Science & Technology from IIT Delhi and has led the design and development of bleeding edge technology at some of the most respected HFT firms worldwide.Rajnish is a fitness freak and loves following particle physics and cosmology in his spare time.

Anshumn

Co-Founder & Chief Portfolio Manager

Anshumn has more than 20 years of experience in software development and leading development teams in various roles. He started his career with development of online trading & financial applications. In the last 10 years he has led the software engineering teams at start-ups focused on building software solutions with big data & analytics. Anshumn holds Masters degree in Computer Applications from Thapar Institute, Patiala.

Trading & Technology

DIVERSIFIED

Our Models analyze Gigabytes of global market data to come up with trading system across a wide range of instruments and trading horizons. Everything from latency sensitive intra-day scalping strategies to long term delta neutral Options stratgies are within our universe.

DYNAMIC

Our team of quants and technologists constantly adjust parameters and improve strategies. Many of our systems are built on top of self-learning layers of artificial intelligence models that are constantly retrained. This ensures that we can keep competing in a dynamic, fast-paced trading environment.

SCALABLE

Our models can effortlessly scale to manage large AUM as we deploy capital across a variety of non-correlated trading system across markets and instruments.

LATENCY SENSITIVE

All our strategy deployments leverage a robust latency sensitive trading infrastructure and state-of-the-art execution algorithms. Our core engineering team is constantly working improvements and extensions to this infrastructural framework.

ROBUST

We have developed enterprise grade risk management systems that track multiple risk metrics at different degress of granularity. This ensure that overall risk at each of the levels – system, portfolio, site, client etc – are carefully tracked and managed.

PERFORMANCE

We are focussed on generation of superior risk-adjusted alpha. Right from the stage of reseach and development of a Quantitative system to its deployment decisions on a latency sensitive infra, we are hawkisly focussed on generating the greated bang for buck.

5Swans is bringing together the brightest minds to solve the toughest problems in financial markets and build the next generation of trading technology and alpha-generating strategies. We use data science, machine learning, latency sensitive infrastructure and distributed computing to find connections in financial data.

CULTURE

We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting-edge research to global financial markets. Diversity is the foundation of our business and promoting an inclusive environment is at the heart of our culture.

DIFFERENT

We are not a conventional company, and do not intend to become one either. Even as we grow, we want to retain the DNA of a startup – fast, agile and out to change the world.

RESEARCH FOCUS

We are fully focussed on reasearch and are trying to find solutions to teething pain points with trading systems, risk management and trading technology with special focus on Indian markets.

MERITOCRATIC

We have a flat structure – age, educational background or work experience has no bearing. The only thing that matters is the tangible contribution to the success of the firm – top performers are quickly spotted, promoted and rewarded.

COLLABORATIVE

Our problem solving approach is founded on collaboration. We have first hand identified that our best ideas and solutions are found when people with diverse background tackle a problem together in a shared research and development environment.

INNOVATIVE

We value creativity and actively encourage our teams to think out of the box. We are aware that in the zero sum game of the financial markets it’s Either innovate or perish.

OWNERSHIP FOCUS

We work in the environment of incomplete information and are comfortable to take ownership of difficult problems, try different solutions, learn from failures and pivot fast for success.

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5Swans is bringing together the brightest minds to solve the toughest problems in
financial markets and build the next generation of trading technology and alpha-generating strategies. We use data science, machine learning, ultra-low latency tech and distributed computing to find connections in financial data.

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