Shailendra Kumar is the Co-Founder & Chief Investment Officer at Narnolia. He is known for his deep understanding and experience of over two decades in the space of fund management & investment advisory. Under his leadership, Narnolia has been recognised as the ‘Most Consistent Portfolio Manager of the country in 2018 & 2019’ and also as the ‘Pioneer and 2nd largest Investment Advisor of the country in 2021. His preferred investing style is ‘growth-in-value’. Shailendra holds a post-graduate degree in Management & Systems from IIT, Delhi. He has a strong academic orientation having authored as well as mentored numerous financial publications and research papers. He has also done extensive work on corporate valuations and derivative pricing.
The key objective of the Narnolia Multi cap Strategy is to outperform Nifty 500 (the strategy’s benchmark) while tracking Nifty 500 on a sustainable risk adjusted basis. This is done by managing the beta of the portfolio to Nifty 500 while adding alpha opportunistically based on a rigorous bottom up proprietary model. the portfolio construction is optimized to hit the singles and double as opposed to fours and sixes. This makes it very resilient especially in bearish and sideways markets by minimizing negative effects of deleveraging in such environment.
Stock filtering through proprietary model which considers fundamental, quantitative multiple years data/MCQ approach to buying. Momentum in earnings, Capital allocation strategy, Qualitative financial ratio/priority to resilience over high-beta.