Royal Trust Investments is an investment firm built on research and technology. We turn the structure of markets into disciplined returns for investors, and we are building the firm one market and one fund at a time.
The firm
We invest through a portfolio of systematic strategies in liquid markets. Every position comes from tested rules, risk is managed across the portfolio as a whole, and there are no discretionary trades.
Our research is designed to say no. A strategy earns capital only after it survives every attempt to break it, and the work is audited independently. The firm sizes every fund to what its strategies can absorb rather than to what could be raised, holds a reserve for weak quarters, and invests its own capital in the first-loss position.
Performance is shared privately with eligible investors and never published here.
The team
Founder, Royal Trust Investments
Andres founded Royal Trust Investments and leads the firm’s Bitcoin yield, multi-exchange trading and tokenization businesses. That work draws on experience in risk, controls, strategy and financial advisory at PwC, Deloitte and Accenture, a background in general controls and SOX compliance, and expertise in derivatives structuring and the options market. Andres is based in San Francisco, Bogotá and Toronto.
Head of Quantitative Research
Nehal leads research on RTI’s systematic strategies, taking each one from the first hypothesis through paper trading to live capital, and sets the standard a strategy has to meet before it receives capital. Nehal’s experience includes work as a Research Consultant at WorldQuant in 2026, building equity signals on its BRAIN platform, and as a Quantitative Analyst at Plus91 Asset Management in Mumbai from 2024 to 2025, building systematic strategies and their risk framework in Indian equities and derivatives. Nehal holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Rizvi College of Engineering, Mumbai.
Head of Trading
Ashutosh runs live execution, exchange connectivity and risk controls across RTI’s venues. From 2022 to 2025 Ashutosh was a Quantitative Analyst at Alpha Plus Capital Advisors in Mumbai, building algorithmic execution systems, deploying financial applications on AWS and local servers, and applying machine learning to find price trends and anomalies in market data for real-time risk monitoring. Before that, from 2021 to 2022, Ashutosh was a Quantitative Developer at Quartgen Solutions in Mumbai, building trading tools for real-time market data, running quantitative models on live data streams, and developing and backtesting options trading strategies.