Rational Investing's predecessor firm was founded in January
1999, as a financial analytics and software engineering firm with a strong focus
on securities analysis, trading, and ecommerce. It developed the current
generation trading platform of FXCM, now the world's largest online FX dealer.
Rational Investing has since focused entirely on valuation to
support investment management and research. We support a variety of long
only and hedge fund managers using our valuation system from offices in New York
and Mumbai, India.
Manish Aurora
co-founded the firm and has managed its major projects. He designed the
valuation template and information flow of the Rational Investing system based
upon ideas developed a graduate student at the University of Chicago as well as
trading an equity long/short book. Since 1996, he has worked as a risk
management systems consultant to money-center banks and brokerages. His clients
included JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, Chase, and US Trust. He has worked at
BlackRock Financial Management, Nomura Securities, Financial Sciences, and
Microsoft. His experience includes massively parallel supercomputing, fixed
income and FX derivatives, and firm-wide credit and market risk management. He
has participated in and managed international teams for several successful
software projects. He has an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BS
from the University of Scranton. Full Resume
Pieter Hellquist has over 25
years of experience in international financial markets. After 10 years with
Reuters, where he was part of the management team building a $ 100+ mil.
business in Japan, and another 10 years with Citibank, where he was responsible
for the development of electronic trading solutions for FX and equities based in
Australia and Europe, he became an entrepreneur. He co-founded an FX trading
platform software house and later a recruitment consulting firm, before joining
Rational Investing, where he currently is responsible for fundamental research
in support of our quantitative portfolio construction. He has an MBA from
INSEAD, a Master of Industrial Engineering from Sweden and a degree from Ecole
Centrale de Paris. He has lived in seven countries and speaks five languages.
Harbhajan Aurora
co-founded the firm and manages its Mumbai offices. He directly oversees the analyst team and
has built several hundred valuations of US firms. This is his third career and second successful entrepreneurial
venture. He built and ran a textile manufacturing and trading business for 20 years in Mumbai before formally
learning programming in 1998. Prior to that he was the manager of Chicago Pneumatic’s North Indian marketing
and operations, responsible for a staff of 30 professionals selling and servicing a variety of machinery for
large infrastructure projects. He holds a BS in Engineering from the University of Punjab.
