Swyom Advisors Limited, the SEBI-registered investment manager to the Swyom India Alpha Fund, marked the completion of three years of operations at Beyond Alpha: Chapter 3, an evening reception held on Saturday, 5 September at the Grand Ballroom, Taj Santacruz, MumbaiThe gathering brought together the firm’s investors, distribution partners, service providers and associates from across the Indian capital markets ecosystem.
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L–R: Jaideep Kanse, Swyom; Radha Raman Agarwal, MD & CEO, Swyom Advisors; and Sanjay Mishra, former COO, Marico India, at Beyond Alpha, Taj Santacruz, 5 September 2026
The evening ran under the theme ‘Building Bonds, Breaking Boundaries, Blazing Beyond’, a framing the firm has used to describe the three priorities it says have defined its first three years: deepening relationships with its stakeholders, widening the research questions it is willing to take on, and building the institutional infrastructure to carry both forward.
“Three years is a short life for an investment firm, but it has not been a quiet one,” said Radha Raman Agarwal, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Swyom Advisors Limited“This period has handed Indian markets a broad market advance, a mid-cycle correction, a geopolitical energy shock and a sharp reversal in foreign flowsFirms are not built in benign conditionsWhat we take from these three years is a working method we trust, a team that has been tested, and the relationships that made both possible.”
Building the firm
In a presentation to guests, Agarwal set out the firm’s progress as an operating businessSwyom Advisors now manages assets of over Rs300 crore across close to 200 investors, and has grown to a team of more than 20 professionals, including a dedicated in-house research teamGrowth in assets under management reflects a combination of investor inflows and market movement and is not a representation of returns.
Aditi Kedia, Director, Swyom Advisors Limited, spoke to the widening of the firm’s investor and partner base over the three years, and to the work of building a distribution network across independent advisers, wealth platforms and family officesSweta Agarwal, Director and a member of the firm’s Investment Committee, closed the evening with a vote of thanks, in which more than 24 partner firms and professional associates were formally recognised for their role in the firm’s first three years.
A maturing alternatives market
Speaking to the wider context, Agarwal pointed to the changing composition of India’s alternatives marketCiting SEBI’s Alternative Investment Funds statistics, he noted that total commitments raised across AIFs have reached approximately Rs16.94 lakh crore since the framework was introduced in 2012, with Category III funds accounting for around Rs3.15 lakh crore – the fastest-growing of the three categoriesCategory III funds, which pursue diverse and often complex strategies, have moved over the past decade from a niche allocation to a recognised line item in the portfolios of Indian family offices and ultra-high-net-worth investors.
The firm noted that three years of continuous operation is also the point at which institutional allocators and intermediaries typically begin formal evaluation of a manager, making the anniversary an operational milestone as much as a symbolic one.
“The Indian alternatives market is at the stage where the conversation has to move past product and towards process,” Agarwal said“Allocators are asking harder questions about how decisions get made, how risk is governed, what happens when a thesis is wrongThose are the right questions, and the firms that answer them plainly are the ones this market will reward with longevity.”
The programme also included a fireside conversation on the premiumisation of Indian consumption between Sanjay Mishra, a consumer-sector business leader who previously served as Chief Operating Officer, India and Chief Executive Officer, New Business at Marico, and Jaideep Kanse, Business Consulting Partner at Swyom and former Chief Marketing Officer at Asian Paints.
What comes next
Setting out the firm’s priorities for the period ahead, Agarwal described an ambition framed less around size than around institutional depthSwyom Advisors has opened an office in Kolkata as it widens its partner network beyond western India, has strengthened its research function with institutional data and analytics infrastructure, and is adding to both its research and sales teamsThe firm is separately evaluating a presence at GIFT City as a route to a more geographically diversified investor baseAlongside these, it says it will continue to invest in governance, talent and investor experience as the business scales.
About Swyom Advisors Limited
Swyom Advisors Limited is the investment manager to the Swyom India Alpha Fund, a Category III Alternative Investment Fund registered with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI Registration NoIN/AIF3/22-23/1170)The firm commenced operations in September 2023 and is headquartered in Mumbai.
Further information is available at www.swyom.com.
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