About
Lakshay Gupta is a risk professional with seven years of experience in institutional derivatives risk management and quantitative analysis. At Edelweiss Financial Services, he managed risk across a $100 million-plus multi-region equities and foreign exchange portfolio and developed Value-at-Risk and Expected Shortfall models across nine business units. He holds an MSc in Investment and Finance from Queen Mary University of London and is pursuing FRM Level 2 certification, complementing his institutional experience with independent futures trading in equity index and commodity markets.
Experience
- Self-employedDiscretionary Futures Trader - Personal and Prop Funded Capitalcurrent2025 — presentJaipur
- FirstRand groupFinancial Analyst2021 — 2023Mumbai
- Edelweiss Financial Services LimitedRisk Analyst2018 — 2021Mumbai Metropolitan Region
- Edelweiss Financial Services LimitedAssociate Trader2017 — 2018Mumbai
Skills & more
Market RiskValue-at-Risk (VAR) CalculationsExpected ShortfallRisk ModelingStress TestingMiddle Office OperationsFront Office OperationsTrading OperationsSystematic Trading StrategiesDerivativesNet Asset Value (NAV)Error Analysis
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Risk ReportingHedge FundsInvestment BankingLeadership and Extracurricular ActivitiesResearch PlatformBloombergBloomberg TerminalEquity ResearchEquity DerivativesEquity TradingEquity ValuationFixed-Income Investing- Level 4 Certificate in Investment Bank - Sales And Trading — AmplifyME
- Level 4 Diploma in Applied Finance — AmplifyME
- Google AI essentials — Google
- Certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM) — Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP)
- Bloomberg finance Fundamentals — Bloomberg
- Finance Accelerator — AmplifyME
- Bloomberg Markets Concepts Course — Bloomberg
- Super Trader Course — StockWiz Technologies LLP
- Stock Market Trading Course — HavenArk
- EPAT- Certificate of excellence — QuantInsti
From Lakshay's professional profile.
Colleagues at Rising Capital
Aishwary Gupta
Advisor at Rising Capital
Amit Kumar
Head of BD at Rising Capital
Ankit Verma
CIO at Rising Capital
Ayan Madaan
Senior Quantitive Developer at Rising Capital
Pavel Bains
Advisor at Rising Capital
Samarth Ahuja
COO at Rising Capital
Sankalp Shangari
Founder & Director at Rising Capital
Subhash Bedi
Advisor at Rising Capital
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Lakshay Gupta?
- Lakshay Gupta is a risk professional with seven years of experience in institutional derivatives risk management and quantitative analysis. At Edelweiss Financial Services, he managed risk across a $100 million-plus multi-region equities and foreign exchange portfolio and developed Value-at-Risk and Expected Shortfall models across nine business units. He holds an MSc in Investment and Finance from Queen Mary University of London and is pursuing FRM Level 2 certification, complementing his institutional experience with independent futures trading in equity index and commodity markets.
- Where does Lakshay Gupta work?
- Lakshay Gupta is Senior Analyst at Rising Capital.
- Where did Lakshay Gupta go to school?
- Lakshay Gupta studied at Queen Mary University of London (MSc investment and Finance, Finance and Financial Management Services); Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology (Bachelor’s Degree, Civil Engineering).
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Shared employers
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