IIFL Multi-Strategy Alpha Fund
Return (1Y)
16.9% p.a.
Fund Type
Multi-Strategy (Category III AIF)
Benchmark
Nifty 50 TRI
Inception Date
November 2020
Min. Investment
₹1 Crore
AUM
₹2,400 Cr
About the Fund
IIFL Multi-Strategy Alpha Fund operates across four independent strategy pods — equity long/short, statistical arbitrage, event-driven, and macro — each managed by a dedicated portfolio manager with its own risk budget, VaR limit, and strategy-specific stop-loss rules. A central risk desk aggregates exposures in real time and enforces fund-level gross exposure limits, providing a smoother return profile than single-strategy alternatives.
Pod allocations are reviewed quarterly and may be re-weighted based on market regime conditions and each pod's drawdown utilisation relative to its budget. This dynamic allocation architecture allows capital to flow toward higher-opportunity strategies within a cycle while maintaining diversification across return drivers. The multi-pod structure has delivered consistent low-correlation returns across bull, bear, and sideways Indian market phases.
Fund Manager Details
Anup Maheshwari
CIO & Head of Alternatives, IIFL Asset Management
25+ years in Indian equity and multi-asset strategies; IIM Ahmedabad; Chartered Accountant
Anup Maheshwari oversees IIFL's entire alternative investment platform and chairs the Multi-Strategy Fund's investment committee. He structured the pod-based risk architecture and manages the equity long/short pod directly. The other pods are managed by dedicated PMs: statistical arbitrage (Prashant Nair), event-driven (Kapil Mathur), and macro (Head of Fixed Income Alternatives).
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