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
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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Portfolio performance and update on fundamentals - June 2025
Global Compounders Portfolio (GCP): June was a constructive month for the portfolio and the broader index. However, the portfolio underperformed the index by approximately 190 bps, as markets were led higher by a sharp rebound in a handful of large-cap semiconductor names—despite elevated valuations. In contrast, our more defensive holdings, including Waste Connections, Berkshire Hathaway, […]
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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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