Torch Investment Management

Torch Investment Management

Founded in 2006 as the vehicle formerly known as ZeusCaps, Torch Investment Management operates as a Monetary Authority of Singapore-registered entity within Torch Investment Group. The firm serves high-net-worth individuals and families, with coverage spanning Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and Europe. The leadership bench brings together professionals who previously worked at Morgan Stanley, GE Capital, ABN AMRO, and Macquarie Bank. The firm’s investment framework is built around a multi-factor risk-and-return decomposition, prioritizing uncorrelated assets, portfolio liquidity, and regular income. Strategy areas disclosed on the firm’s website include special situations and distressed assets — overseen by Maz Akram, who holds a board seat at Media News Group/Digital First Media — renewable energy, where Aman Mehta previously advised the Commonwealth Business Council Clean Energy Initiative for the Indian Government, and credit, public equities, and emerging markets. The team also operates an outsourcing specialist function through Hemendra Aran, who founded Aranca in 2003. Torch’s core team claims an execution track record exceeding US$1 billion. The firm is built around a lean Singapore headquarters and an outsourced operations arrangement through Zeus Knowledge Centre Pvt Ltd, which houses private equity, M&A advisory, and investment analytics professionals, many of whom hold CFA charters or ACA qualifications. The Supervisory Board includes H.E. Prince Mishaal bin Abdullah bin Turki bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, situating the firm within Gulf family-office networks. Torch does not publicly disclose AUM. The defining structural difference is Torch’s explicit pitch as an alternative to private banking — it combines MAS-regulated fund management with in-house special-situations, renewables, and dispute-resolution specialists, channeling the result through an outsourced investment-operations backbone in India. The firm manages wealth rather than raising blind-pool funds, making it a hybrid of family-office service provider and regulated asset manager without the standard GP/LP fund architecture.