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Marcellus Portfolio Updates & Insights – August 2026

Click Here to know more about our registration and licensing details marcellus.in From Our CIO’s Desk Is Quality Investing Making a Comeback in India? Over the last five years (FY21–25), high-quality businesses—companies with clean accounting, strong management, and high returns on capital—lagged the broader market. The reason was simple: a post-COVID surge in household […]

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Marcellus Portfolio Updates & Insights – June 2026

marcellus.in From Our CIO’s Desk What Goes into the Making of a Data Center? Two global headlines have dominated the financial landscape in recent times: Alphabet is executing a record-breaking $85 billion equity raise to fund its AI infrastructure and global compute footprint. SpaceX is setting the stage for the largest IPO ever recorded, […]

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Marcellus Portfolio Updates & Insights – April 2026

marcellus.in From Our CIO’s Desk The Case for Multi-Asset Diversification in Volatile Times The ongoing Middle East conflict is a stark reminder that global economies react differently to the same shock. In my recent conversation with Manish Hemnani, we explored why the “old rules” of domestic-only investing must evolve to preserve wealth in this […]

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Marcellus’ Portfolio Updates & Insights – February 2026

marcellus.in From Our CIO’s Desk RBI’s Report Flags Indian Consumer’s Debt Trap For the past year, we have warned that the Indian middle class is financing its lifestyle through a precarious reliance on debt. The RBI’s latest Financial Stability Report (FSR) has now validated these concerns, signalling that the “consumption story” is hitting a […]

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How Volatile Funds Cost Investors Dear

High volatility in an equity portfolio creates zones of ‘excitement’ and ‘fear’ based on recent performance. This adversely affects the quality of decision making by equity investors. As a result, historically, investor returns in Indian equity funds have been lower than fund returns across different periods. Similarly, a recent example from the US – NYSE […]

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The Benefits of Timing are Inversely Correlated with the Quality of Fundamentals

The rate at which fundamentals of a company compound (and hence its share price) over the long term is inversely correlated with the quantum of benefit that an investor can achieve by perfectly timing her purchases at the bottom of the share price trajectory. Moreover, for a portfolio consisting of high-quality companies, benefits from a […]

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CCPs use more ‘S-curves’ to elongate their fundamental compounding

Value addition from every initiative undertaken by a company follows an ‘S-curve’ with three parts to it – the investment phase, the growth phase and the fade period. The fundamentals of the overall company are a consolidation of ‘S-curves’ of all initiatives. There are several limiting factors to every initiative such as addressable market size, […]

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The Path to Consistent Compounding is Paved with Free Cashflow

There are four key drivers of free cashflow in a business – revenue growth, profit margins, working capital efficiency, and asset turnover. The order of importance across these four drivers differs across businesses. As Marcellus’ CCP companies invest in technology to improve operational efficiencies, those companies that sell day-to-day essentials to their customers whilst avoiding […]

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