Krishnan V R
Krishnan leads the Quantitative Research team at Marcellus.
Krishnan leads the Quantitative Research team at Marcellus. He has around 10 years of experience spanning both equity and fixed income research. Prior to Marcellus, he was part of the New Indexes Development team at Morningstar, where he was involved in creating systematic, rules-based equity and multi-asset investment products. Before that, he was an equity analyst with D.E. Shaw & Co. and a credit analyst at Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) EM Corporate Debt Team.
Qualification: Krishnan has completed his MBA from IIM, Kozhikode and Engineering from NIT Trichy. He is also a CFA charter holder.
Articles by team Marcellus
Portfolio Performance and Update on Fundamentals - February 2025
Note: For all strategies except GCP, Performance data shown is net of fixed fees and expenses charged till December 31st , 2024 and is net of annual performance fees (Except for Little Champs Portfolio) charged for client accounts whose account anniversary/performance calculation date falls upto the last date of this performance period. Since, for Little Champs Portfolio, […]
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Global Compounders: The Diversification “Free Lunch”
Marcellus’ Global Compounders Portfolio (GCP) strategically invests in 20-30 deeply moated global companies aligned with megatrends, fostering a consistent mid to high teens compounding of free cash flow/earnings. The US market has a track record of strong, earnings led returns despite modest GDP growth. This places it among the top performing markets globally over a […]
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The Most Indebted People in the World
Over the past decade, not only have Indians borrowed at an increasing rate whilst their incomes have stagnated, but now they are also one of the most indebted people across the world (excluding mortgages), surpassing the US and China. Most worryingly , most of these retail loans are NOT for creating assets but for satisfying […]
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