Arindam Mandal
Prior to joining Marcellus, Arindam spent nearly a decade in the United States working for Principal Global Investors (PGI).
Arindam brings over a decade of global investing experience, having spent nearly 10+ years in the United States with Principal Global Investors (PGI). He began his career as a Quantitative Analyst before transitioning to fundamental equity research, where he served as the lead analyst covering U.S. and Global Industrials and Utilities. In early 2019, he broadened his investment mandate to include Emerging Markets and oversaw India public equity investments across PGI’s global equity platform. PGI manages more than 100B in equities. His primary fund during this period managed $5B+ in assets. Prior to his investment career, Arindam worked as a Lead Software Engineer in product research and development at Oracle Corporation.
Qualifications: Arindam holds a Bachelor of Technology (First Class with Distinction) from NIT Warangal and earned his MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, where he graduated with highest honours in Finance.
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MeritorQ: Low-Risk Investing with Sound Fundamentals
In this newsletter, we discuss the so called “low-risk” anomaly which posits that high beta (or high risk) stocks underperform low beta or (low risk stocks) over the long term i.e. there is NO extra return to be earned from owning riskier stocks. We show that this low-risk anomaly works in India as well. In this context, […]
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Indian Banks Don’t Need More Regulation, They Need More Leverage
Indian banks are often criticized for maintaining higher net interest margins (NIMs) compared to their global peers. However, despite higher NIMs, Indian banks’ average RoE of 6.9% over the past decade lags the average RoE of G7 countries’ banks of 9.2%. More importantly, Indian banks have one of the lowest excess return (RoE less 10-year […]
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White Collar Jobs Growth & Wage Growth: Twin Drivers of India’s Slowdown
From Diwali 2023 onwards, Indian companies’ earnings growth has decelerated at a rapid rate. Underpinning this deceleration is a sharp conk-off in consumption growth, long the mainstay of the Indian economy. Key drivers of this consumption downturn are a sharp deceleration in white collar job creation alongside a reduction in real wages for white collar […]
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