Manish is one of the Founders of Marcellus. Manish comes from quantitative data analytics and research background, and has more than 12 years of experience working with banks and financial institutions across east-Asia, India and Europe. Prior to founding Marcellus, he founded Crosstab Limited (2011), a London based quantitative data analytics outfit. Prior to that he worked with a Mumbai based boutique analytics consulting firm.
Manish holds an MBA from University of Warwick – Warwick Business School (UK).
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 “revenge spending” and government infrastructure capex created a rising tide that lifted […]
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) […]
Like our favourite cricketer, Rahul Dravid, the 7 companies decoded by us a decade ago in ‘The Unusual Billionaires’ delivered market beating performance by focusing on 3 principles which are simple to understand but hard to deliver on: (a) stick to the core and expand only into adjacencies; (b) focus on deepening your existing moats; and (c) […]