Thematic Investors: Arvind Sanger on Long-Short Energy Transition Investing
Long-short investors seriously targeting the energy sector need to adjust their nets and focus on placing bets on everything from coal, oil, natural gas, uranium, and other relevant sectors. This investment style isn’t about making massive directional wagers like a CTA fund; instead, it’s about leveraging macro trends to balance risks and seize opportunities in this dynamic market.
Join host Kieran Cavanna as he sits down with Arvind Sanger, founder and managing partner, Geosphere Capital Management. Arvind explores his background, how he became interested in alternative energy sources, and where there are real demonstrable money-making opportunities to be made in today’s market.
Key insights that Arvind shares with our audience include:
- How a macro-overlay strategy helps manage risk and exposure for portfolios.
- How his sensible energy transition thesis looked at real energy transition goals, removing the popular belief, that fossil fuels would disappear if investors stopped targeting these opportunities.
- What is most important in US power and how policy regulations and current deal-making strategies might be pushing out green energy in favor of AI and data center investments.
- The use of small modular reactors (SMRs) to help energy transition goals when considering nuclear applications.
- Why coal is still a good strategy for long-short investors and why demand is still not at a peak level.
- What he thinks about Scott Bessent’s 3-3-3 plan in the oil and gas sector. (You can listen to more of Scott’s interview with Kieran here).
- And more.
Connect with Arvind Sanger
Geosphere Capital Management
Arvind Sanger is the founder and managing partner of Geosphere Capital Management, a global long-short equity hedge fund focused on natural resources and industrial companies worldwide.
A former portfolio manager at SAC Capital where he managed a team of six investment professionals in New York and Singapore, Arvind’s career also includes 15 years as a top-ranked sell-side oil services and equipment analyst at a number of firms, including Deutsche Bank, DLJ and Kidder Peabody.
Arvind graduated with a BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and received his MBA from Tulane University. He is a member of the Business School Council at The A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University and is a former chairman of Pratham USA.
Old Farm Partners
Kieran Cavanna is the Co-Founder and CIO of Old Farm Partners. Old Farm is a hedge fund allocation firm focusing on small and mid-sized hedge funds, as well as co-investment opportunities with $600m under management. Prior to Old Farm, Mr. Cavanna worked at Soros Fund Management where he served as the Head of the External Manager Selection team. Mr. Cavanna and his team performed due diligence on and allocated to a select group of hedge funds that deployed a wide variety of hedge fund strategies. Prior to Soros, Kieran was a Partner and the Head of Research at Titan Advisors, a $5b fund-of-hedge funds. In total, Mr. Cavanna has been allocating to hedge funds for 18 years. Mr. Cavanna started his financial career at KPMG Consulting as Senior Analyst. Mr. Cavanna graduated from the University of Richmond with a BA and received an MBA from Vanderbilt University.
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