Guardian Capital Partners

Guardian Capital Partners is a Mumbai-based public equity long-only fund founded in 2020 by Manav Saraf and Kabir Kewalramani, structured as a Category III Alternative Investment Fund. The firm utilizes strict bottom-up fundamental research and an opportunistic valuation framework, targeting a multi-cap strategy through its Opportunities Scheme where it invests approximately 70% in large and mid-caps and 30% in small-caps. Guided by a strict discipline to buy quality, undervalued companies only when they trade at a discount to their long-term average valuations, the fund preserves capital by shifting to cash when cheap opportunities are unavailable. It typically maintains a concentrated portfolio of 15 to 30 stocks with an absolute performance target of 20% gross returns annually over a rolling three-to-five-year investment horizon