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

NEWSLETTER
Global Compounders: Why have we underperformed the S&P500 in 2026?

Marcellus’ Global Compounders Portfolio (GCP) strategically invests in ~40 deeply moated global companies aligned with megatrends, with an aim to provide steady earnings growth and shareholder wealth compounding. Our underperformance vs S&P500 in 2026 has played out in two parts – in line until Feb’26 and underperformance post that. Two factors explain the underperformance: 1) […]


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NEWSLETTER
Isaac Newton and the Madness of Men

Marcellus’ Global Compounders Portfolio (GCP) strategically invests in ~40 deeply moated global companies aligned with megatrends, with an aim to provide steady earnings and shareholder wealth compounding. Over the last few years, we’ve seen the world get increasingly intoxicated with the AI narrative. While we certainly see long-term merit in this technology and what it […]


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Winner Takes Most: Wimbledon-Style Payoffs Await White-Collar Workers

At Wimbledon this July the singles champion took home £3.6mn. The sixty-four players who lost their first match took £80,000 each i.e. the winner earns 45x the losers. That gap is what economists call the ‘Theory of Tournaments’, and two celebrated papers explain why the gap must be that wide. This payoff structure will become familiar […]


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