PACE 360 – From Family Legacy to Global Investment Powerhouse
A Global Force Emerges — A Next-Gen Architect of Change
In a financial world swirling with speed and speculation, Vaanyasri Goel, Chief Strategy Officer of PACE 360, stands apart — defined by clarity amid noise, conviction amid uncertainty, and conscience amid competition. At the intersection of legacy and leadership, she has re-imagined what it means to steward wealth in a rapidly transforming India.
Recognized as the Global Visionary in Investment Leadership & Empowerment 2025, Vaanyasri represents a new generation — data-driven yet deeply human, globally exposed yet firmly rooted in purpose. Featured by Forbes as one of the brightest women changemakers of her generation, she was also among the strongest voices behind USC Marshall School of Business in achieving gender parity — a milestone that mirrors her lifelong belief that equality fuels excellence.
Today, she co-leads a $2.5 billion multi-asset management enterprise that blends macro intelligence with AI-enabled precision and bespoke portfolio craftsmanship. Alongside her father Amit Goel, Co-Founder & Chief Global Strategist, and her sister Vrinda Goel, Chief Alpha Strategist, Vaanyasri is transforming a thirty-year family legacy into a new financial renaissance.
“True wealth is not measured in multiples but in the number of lives we empower along the way.” — Vaanyasri Goel
The Visionary Who Rewrote India’s Investment Playbook
The story of PACE 360 began in 1995, when Amit Goel and his brother secured membership of the National Stock Exchange — marking the birth of an idea that would reshape India’s investment landscape.
An alumnus of Shri Ram College of Commerce and FMS Delhi, Amit looked beyond stock picking and short-term trading. He sought to decode the forces that truly move markets — macroeconomics, behavioral finance, interest rates, and global liquidity flows.
That curiosity became a calling. He developed India’s first institutionalized Macro Top-Down Multi-Asset framework — a method that starts with economies, then flows through asset classes, sectors, and finally individual securities. Where others chased noise, Amit built structure. Where others traded emotion, he invested in discipline.
Over decades, his framework delivered uncorrelated returns, superior risk-adjusted alpha, and one of the lowest standard deviations in its peer group — preserving capital through crisis and compounding steadily through cycles.
Today he is recognized by Bloomberg, The Economist, and CNBC for his ability to link global macro forces with market behavior. In doing so, he has mentored a generation of analysts and fund managers, creating a distinct school of thought within India’s asset-management industry — one where academic rigor meets market instinct.
“Markets are cyclical — principles are timeless.” — Amit Goel
From Wall Street to India’s Growth Story — Vaanyasri Goel Disrupting the Financial Landscape
If Amit Goel built the foundation, Vaanyasri has brought it alive for a new era.
Before returning home, she learned finance at its most demanding frontiers — BlackRock, Duff & Phelps, and Accenture — where she mastered portfolio engineering, valuation analytics, and risk architecture. At USC Marshall, she discovered that data and diversity could coexist — that numbers have meaning only when the voices behind them are inclusive.
Returning to India, Vaanyasri merged Wall Street discipline with India’s entrepreneurial pulse to build a firm where effectiveness is measured not by speed alone but by substance. At PACE 360, she has led a technological transformation anchored by the AI-enabled Macro Engine — an adaptive system that tracks over 200 economic variables from yield curves to behavioral trends, translating them into dynamic risk signals and real-time allocations.
This engine does more than analyze markets — it anticipates them, turning macro data into micro clarity. It is this fusion of technology and insight that defines PACE 360’s signature style — growth balanced with resilience.
WomenRise — Empowering Capital Through Conscious Investing
For Vaanyasri, finance and freedom are inseparable. Her flagship initiative WomenRise was built to bridge that gap — a movement uniting purpose with performance. Through financial literacy programs and institutional-grade advisory support, it empowers women — from widows and divorcees to first-time earners — to not only participate in markets but lead them.
Tresor Smart Alpha — A Next-Generation Portfolio Strategy
Parallel to that social mission runs a scientific one. Tresor Smart Alpha, Vaanyasri’s own portfolio innovation, brings the Macro Top-Down philosophy to life through data. It identifies undervalued sectors and transformative themes driving India’s economy and rotates across carefully chosen sectoral and thematic ETFs — defensive when markets overheat, decisive when valuations turn attractive. The result: consistent, smarter, risk-adjusted returns through every market cycle.
Together, WomenRise and Tresor Smart Alpha define the two sides of Vaanyasri’s vision — one driven by inclusion, the other by innovation — each grounded in rigor and reach.
Empowerment as a Financial Framework
For Vaanyasri, empowerment isn’t CSR; it is a core economic imperative. Through WomenRise and Project Taezia, she extends macro discipline into human development — helping women and refugees gain financial literacy, employment, and independence. What began as small mentorship sessions has grown into structured programs teaching vocational skills and micro-saving habits — turning compassion into capability.
“Legacy isn’t about holding the past — it’s about evolving it for the future.” — Vaanyasri Goel
The Strategist of Alpha and Resilience
If Amit represents vision and Vaanyasri velocity, Vrinda Goel represents discipline and depth. A graduate of IE Business School in Madrid, Vrinda earned her Master’s in Finance with distinction, renowned for connecting disparate data points into stories that move markets.
At PACE 360, she leads the Multi-Factor Alpha Framework, translating macro signals into strategic investments. Her models integrate valuation, momentum, and volatility factors to optimize returns and minimize drawdowns. Clients describe her as precise yet empathetic — a rare analyst who combines logic with intuition.
Together, Vaanyasri and Vrinda co-founded Rise for Refugees ~ Project Taezia, a humanitarian effort turning empathy into economics. For the Goel sisters, alpha and impact are two sides of the same coin: both compound resilience.
“Every portfolio should compound two things: returns and dignity.” — Vrinda Goel
PACE 360 — A Legacy of Trust, Innovation, and Purpose
From a small brokerage in 1995 to a multi-asset firm of global repute, the Goel family has built PACE 360 on two truths: discipline creates trust, and trust creates time.
The PACE Family Office — Full Circle
Led by Amit, Vaanyasri, and Vrinda, the PACE Family Office now manages the family’s proprietary capital with the same macro discipline that guides client portfolios. Three decades after its NSE membership, it accounts for nearly 2–3 percent of the exchange’s daily turnover — a rare continuum from foundation to frontier.
Legacy Beyond Markets — Project Taezia
The Goels believe true legacy extends beyond balance sheets. Through Project Taezia, Vaanyasri and Vrinda have built a bridge between finance and humanity, empowering refugees and migrant women through education, micro-savings, and livelihood training. Under their guidance, Taezia has evolved from compassion into a structured empowerment ecosystem — reflecting the same discipline and durability that defines PACE 360’s investment philosophy.
Boutique in Scale, Global in Standard
PACE 360’s strength lies in its people. The team comprises former professionals from BlackRock, Kotak, HDFC, and Hinduja Finance, united by a shared mission — to build India’s most refined white-glove multi-asset boutique where quant discipline meets human design. Machine-learning operations and real-time risk oversight enable advisors to focus on strategy and innovation, delivering what the firm calls its White-Glove Macro Boutique Model — high-touch service with high-tech precision.
“We don’t just build financial products; we help build family legacies — quietly, precisely, and for the long term.”
Scaling India’s Growth Story to the World
With AUM surpassing $2.5 billion and clients spanning continents, PACE 360 is now poised for its next frontier. The vision is bold yet deliberate:
- Establish a robust institutional presence in the U.S. and GCC, two of the world’s largest capital corridors.
- Create a Global Investor Hub for Indian Asset Classes, making India’s macro story an investment destination for the world.
- Leverage AI-driven passive-plus-active allocations to deliver alpha with accountability.
- Grow to $100 billion AUM within the next decade — through trust, innovation, and principle.
The Meaning of 360
The “360” in PACE 360 symbolizes completeness — a vision that encompasses every asset class, every geography, and every individual. From mutual funds to ETFs, from family offices to refugees learning to save, the firm views finance as an instrument of inclusive growth. By making investing accessible to all and turning each asset class into an opportunity, Vaanyasri and her team are redefining wealth for the next generation.
Together, they are expanding the 360 vision globally — establishing fund platforms in Mauritius, UAE, and Delaware, bridging capital flows between India and the world, and launching precision strategies that blend quant discipline with human judgment.
“We are not just managing wealth; we are engineering resilience — for families, for India, and for the world.” — Vaanyasri Goel
Why the Recognition Matters
Business Connect honors Vaanyasri Goel for embodying the future of finance:
- A leader who has married legacy with innovation and wisdom with modernity.
- A strategist turning macro wisdom into quantitative science.
- A voice for women and communities through WomenRise and Taezia.
- A global architect building bridges of capital and conscience.
PACE 360 earns its own distinction — Excellence in Global Macro & Portfolio Innovation 2025 — for proving that Indian finance can be as analytical as it is artful, as global as it is grounded.
