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Waman Virgaonkar
Vice President, MSCI Research
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Waman Virgaonkar is a Senior Associate in the Core Equity Research team, working on quantitative strategies for portfolio construction. Previously, he worked as a Research Analyst at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Waman has a B. Tech in Computer Engineering from VNIT Nagpur and an MBA degree from Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow.
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Factors in Focus: Val-come Back! Shifting Factors as the Cycle Turns
Jan 6, 2021 Hitendra D Varsani , Waman VirgaonkarIn this two-year-anniversary edition of Factors in Focus, we reflect on the historical relationships between factor returns and macro cycles, which have provided useful information for investors looking to take an active stance on factor exposures based on their outlook.
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Factors in Focus: Impact of Inflation on Style Factors
Oct 2, 2020 Hitendra D Varsani , Waman VirgaonkarGlobal equities continued to rally in Q3, brushing aside fear of a second wave of COVID-19 and a large economic slump. We review what it meant from an equity and fixed-income factor perspective and look at what our models showed headed into Q4
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Factors in Focus: How Trendy Is Your Style Factor?
Jul 6, 2020 Hitendra D Varsani , Waman Virgaonkar , Rohit MendirattaAs markets rallied worldwide, investors took on high-beta exposure and rotated away from stocks with lower risk. The latest edition of Factors in Focus explores the details.
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Factors in Focus: Risk sentiment and factor dynamics in a crisis
Apr 2, 2020 Hitendra D Varsani , Rohit Mendiratta , Waman VirgaonkarWe analyzed the market effects from COVID-19 and a Saudi Arabia/Russia oil-price war. We also examined – for the first time – credit factor performance. How did the quarter play out? What did our adaptive multi-factor model show as it ended?
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Factors in Focus: Will 2020 vision sharpen exposures?
Jan 6, 2020 Hitendra D Varsani , Waman VirgaonkarSome global equity markets reached all-time highs and experienced limited bouts of volatility over the course of 2019. But underneath the calm surface, we saw a high degree of dispersion among factors and sectors.
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Factors in Focus: Momentum hits a valuation speed bump
Oct 3, 2019 Hitendra D Varsani , Waman VirgaonkarThe momentum-value spread saw one of the largest corrections in history over the summer. What does our model show going forward?
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Factors in Focus: Dynamic short term, strategic long term
Jul 2, 2019 Hitendra D Varsani , Waman VirgaonkarWe review factor performance over the second quarter, provide the perspective of a long-term view and look to indications from our adaptive multi-factor model heading into Q3.
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Factors in Focus: Risky start. Quality finish.
Apr 2, 2019 Waman Virgaonkar , Hitendra D VarsaniWe highlight the fast-moving rotation among factors that continued during Q1 2019. As we move into Q2 2019, this framework showed allocation changes in different factors.
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What has affected minimum volatility index performance?
Jan 31, 2019 Waman Virgaonkar , Mehdi AlighanbariAs we head further into 2019, some of last year’s concerns, including market volatility and interest-rate uncertainty, continue to occupy investors’ minds. With the assumption that rates-related concerns continue and uncertainty looms in the global equity markets, the question is how minimum volatility indexes behaved in an environment dominated by these two opposing forces.
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