Sachin Garg, CFA

Experience

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  Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2018

  Student, Electrical Engineering

  Artificial intelligence based stock price prediction model (undergraduate research thesis):- developed a model to quantize the information present in news articles and twitter using natural language processing tools (NLP)- predicted the price movement by combining historical time-series data with the news articles and social media data using machine learning tools

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  TGC Strategies*

  Mar 2015 - Jul 2015

  Co Founder

  TGC Strategies is a political consulting firm. The goal of work done by TGC Strategies is to help clients build and maintain public relations, influence public opinion and help clients through difficult crises. So, much of what we do is based on in-depth robust research and insights. Various type of research used by TGC Strategies includes surveys, social media analytics and qualitative research. It can work with clients on reputation management and crisis communications as well as helping them to create complete digital and social media strategies. Show less

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  Finance Club, IITB

  Apr 2015 - Apr 2016

  Student head

  Head of two-tier team | Achieved 400% y-o-y increase in sessions | Achieved 125% y-o-y increase in turnout | 6x increase in social media outreach

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  Indian School of Business

  May 2016 - Jul 2016

  Summer Research Intern, Centre for Analytical Finance

  Research intern mainly focusing on understanding and backtesting systematic factor-based, market-neutral strategies in the Indian equity market.

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  Goldman Sachs

  Jun 2018 - now

  Working closely with PM for top-down risk management of the macro hedge fund. Part of the FI team, specifically covering macro hedge fund. Part of the backtesting team looking into broker-dealer portfolios

  • Vice President

    Jan 2023 - now

  • Portfolio construction specialist Associate

    Jun 2021 - Jan 2023

  • Quantitative Analyst- Market risk

    Jun 2018 - Jun 2021