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A boutique consulting firm that guides financial institutions ranging from global hedge funds to family offices.
Founded by Puneet Rastogi, Doctor of Optometry, The Practical Contrarian’s mission is to empower financial institutions by delivering customized investment solutions and proprietary technical analysis to your firm’s portfolio, and ongoing guidance based on our evaluation of the markets. Our team is here to provide a unique perspective to ultimately help you win in the end.
Trained by a Wall Street legend, Puneet Rastogi is a renowned investor and financier, recognized for his strategic insights in the financial sector. With a career spanning over two decades, he has made significant contributions to both Wall Street and international markets, earning accolades for his innovative investment approaches.
Beyond his financial expertise, Puneet is also a committed philanthropist, actively supporting various educational and environmental causes globally.
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What is the Best Real Estate Investment Strategy for a Family Office?
As investors with our own portfolios of undervalued single-family real estate rental properties, we remain laser-focused on the risks to our investment thesis in the real estate world and on helping our clients navigate their investment journeys which ties into a more analytical approach to family offices investing in real estate whether it be residential properties or commercial.
Financial Consulting Services: Is There a Secret Sauce?
As a boutique financial consulting firm that guides hedge funds, family offices and high-net-worth individuals around the world, we often get questions around our secret sauce, and this blog post touches a little more on that. In the ultra-competitive financial...
Can a Hedge Fund be a Family Office? How Empires are Born
After guiding a wide variety of financial institutions it’s interesting to see how many times hedge funds – and the geniuses behind them – end up stepping back at some point and focusing on their personal lives and what really matters most to them after they made it.


