Our Institutional Equities franchise is widely respected, especially for its research, which is
ranked #1 in the country across local and global brokerage houses. It is home to a 100 member team,
catering to over 400 institutional clients.
Offerings
Research
Trusted by 400+ institutional investors for its intellectual honesty, thought
leadership, detail-oriented, ears to the ground and a buy side approach to sell side
research.
The 50+ member team covers 250+ stocks across ~15 sectors, covering ~80% of the total
market capitalisation in India. Each sector lead analyst has over 12 years expertise
in covering the respective sectors and overall 15+ years of experience. The team
scores high on sector knowledge, relationships and objectivity.
The Research team at Spark has been ranked as #1 Best India Research in the recently
concluded Asiamoney 2022 Polls and consistently ranked among the Top 3 Research
Teams over the past decade.
Sales
Experienced 12 member equity sales team leverages our best-in-class research to sell
ideas and deliver customised insights to institutional investors across the globe
looking to invest in India by filtering out the noise, keeping in mind clients'
portfolio mandate and investing style. The approach to sales is - do we want to sell
this idea rather than can this idea be sold. The team has strong relationships with
400+ institutional investors. It is ranked as India's #1 Sales Team in the recently
concluded Asiamoney 2022 Polls. No coincidence, that almost every sales person has
been a research analyst in the past.
Trading
Spark has a seasoned 25 member trading desk with cash and derivative capabilities.
Spark offers multiple execution platforms and a sophisticated algorithm suite to
enable seamless execution of complex trades across trading strategies. The execution
team at Spark also has capabilities in high touch execution, direct market access,
directional futures and cash - futures arbitrage.
The consistent quality of our execution and customised solutions for institutional
clients have contributed to significant market share growth over the years. The
execution team at Spark has been ranked as the #1 in Best Execution (India) in the
recently concluded Asiamoney 2022 Polls.
Corporate Access
Spark plays a leading role in connecting institutional investors around the world
with listed & private companies, industry experts and related ecosystem linkages
thus playing an important role in helping investors to build a deeper understanding
of businesses across sectors.
The above offerings are provided through multiple platforms like investor
conferences, corporate roadshows, reverse roadshows, city access days, thematic
days, plant visits and bespoke events.
Spark focusses on providing differentiated access with a thematic approach to
investor access events. A cornerstone of our events is the spread of industry
experts we host at these events.
Spark Corporate Access has been ranked as the #2 Best Corporate Access Team in the
recently concluded Asiamoney 2022 Polls.
It has recently come to our attention that certain unknown miscreants have formed numerous fraudulent WhatsApp groups/fake websites and are promoting them using Instagram/Facebook ads, misusing our name, infringing our trademark, logo and impersonating our employee, Mr. Naresh Rathi, thereby inducing people to invest in stocks assuring high profits. There could also be other surreptitious groups that have not come to our notice but are abusing our trade name or that any of our employees to defraud the general public.
Avendus Group comprising Avendus Capital Private Limited and its affiliates including Spark Institutional Equities Private Limited (with the brand names “Avendus”, “Avendus Spark”) are regulated entities. Neither we, nor any of our partners, directors or employees have created any such fake websites or groups on any third party apps like WhatsApp, Telegram etc. that deal in stock market information or tips, nor do we endorse any such dubious activities of encouraging people to part with their hard-earned monies by assuring high returns.
We recommend that you only trust communication with/from your relationship manager in this regard. Anyone dealing with such unauthorized entities or disbursing monies or acting on such tips without proper verification shall be doing so at their own risk and Avendus Group shall not be responsible in any manner. We strongly urge you to be vigilant and conduct thorough due diligence before acting on stock tips shared on such fraudulent groups impersonating Avendus or Naresh Rathi or any other employee.
In case anyone misleads you in the name of Avendus or Avendus Spark or any other affiliate entities or its employees in any manner, you may consider filing a police complaint and bringing it to the notice of the cyber crime cell and stock exchanges. We have already approached the police, cyber crime wing and relevant regulatory authorities in relation to the aforesaid acts and are exploring the strictest possible action against the perpetrators.