Manish Dhawan founded Mystic Wealth in 2011, after 12 years in corporate roles spanning business development and quality assurance at Hyper Quality, American Express, and NAI Global. He manages the options and momentum desk, and is widely known in India as a co-host of Stoic Talks, one of the country's earliest investing and trading podcasts. He writes on markets and trading psychology on the Mystic Wealth journal.
Varenya Agrawal is a full-time investor and co-founder at INFLO, managing family money using value and momentum approaches in the equity markets. He previously worked with Deutsche Bank's Capital Markets team in Singapore.
Dayanand Deshpande manages both the GoldStandard Mystic Wealth Momentum and GoldStandard Mystic Wealth Value PMS strategies. He holds an MBA (Finance) from SJMSOM, IIT Bombay, and served as a Short Service Commission officer in the Indian Air Force after an engineering background in Electronics and Telecom. With more than 20 years in the Indian stock market, he is regarded as an authority on special situation investing built around demergers and spin-offs.
Mystic Wealth and INFLO are run by the same principals but registered and operated separately.
| Entity | Activity | Principal(s) | Registration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mystic Wealth | PMS distribution — GoldStandard Mystic Wealth Momentum & Value | Manish Dhawan | APMI APRN06276 · EUIN E12000 |
| INFLO | Mutual fund distribution & solutions | Manish Dhawan, Varenya | AMFI ARN-334878 |
Charlie Munger's warning about the man with a hammer is a reminder that no single strategy — momentum or value — is a universal tool. The discipline is in knowing which one the evidence calls for.
— from the Mystic Wealth journal