{{short description|American money manager|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{infobox person |name=Manu Daftary |education=University of Mumbai (BA)<br>California State University, Long Beach (BS, MBA) |occupation=Money manager }} '''Manu Daftary''' is an American money manager<ref name=profile/> who manages the Quaker Strategic Growth Fund.<ref name="Taulli2002">{{cite book|last=Taulli|first=Tom|title=The streetsmart guide to short selling: techniques the pros use to profit in any market|url=https://archive.org/details/streetsmartguide00tomt|url-access=registration|accessdate=10 April 2011|date=2002-09-24|publisher=McGraw-Hill Professional|isbn=978-0-07-139394-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/streetsmartguide00tomt/page/263 263]}}</ref> In the ten years from 1997 to 2006, the fund beat the S&P 500 by an average of nine percent per year.<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TAUEAAAAMBAJ&q=manu+daftary&pg=PT20 | title=10 Great Broker Sold Funds | journal=Kiplinger's Personal Finance | last1=Marquardt | first1=Katy | last2=Tanzer | first2=Andrew |date=December 2006 | volume=60 | issue=12 | page=38 | accessdate=June 3, 2012}}</ref>

== Career == He began his investment management career at the University of Southern California in 1985<ref name=kazanjian>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/marketmasterswal0000kaza | url-access=registration | quote=manu daftary. | author=Kazanjian, Kirk | chapter=The Growth Gurus: Manu Daftary | page=[https://archive.org/details/marketmasterswal0000kaza/page/5 5] | title=The Market Masters | year=2005 | publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Inc. | isbn=9780471698654 | accessdate=June 3, 2012}}</ref> where he was Assistant Treasurer of Investments.<ref name=profile>{{cite web | url=http://www.dgcap.com/a_team/team.html | title=Our Team: Trading & Investment Team | publisher=DG Capital Management | accessdate=June 3, 2012 | archive-date=June 16, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120616042246/http://www.dgcap.com/a_team/team.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> In 1988, he joined Geewax, Terker & Company as a portfolio manager in 1988, where he co-managed the firm's institutional accounts and managed equity short selling for the firm's hedge fund assets.<ref name=profile/> While at GT&C, he designed an option overlay program for its institutional accounts.<ref name=profile/> He then worked at Hellman, Jordan Investment Management Company as a senior vice-president/portfolio manager, and had lead responsibility for $500 million in institutional assets.<ref name=profile/> There, he also participated in the management of $150 million in hedge fund assets.<ref name=profile/> Daftary started his own investment firm in 1996,<ref name=kazanjian/> DG Capital Management, of which he is president and CEO<ref name=profile/>

== Education == Daftary has a Bachelor of Arts in economics from the University of Mumbai, India.<ref name=profile/> He is also a graduate of California State University, Long Beach.,<ref name=kazanjian/> where he received both a Bachelor of Science and Master of Business Administration.<ref name=profile/> He is a holder of the chartered financial analyst credential.

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