Manikanta Veera

Manikanta VS is platform engineer of the Franklin Templeton Investment solutions Group. Mr. Manikanta is also research associate in quantitative research and portfolio management, has over 10 years of experience in Investment management.

Mr. Manikanta has been with Franklin Templeton since 2010, he joined as a junior associate in Investment operations in Global Trade services group and worked there for 5 years. Mr. Manikanta joined K2 advisors in 2015 as a research assistant, developed portfolio construction software. He then joined Franklin Templeton systematic (ETF) group and developed factor research models (Alpha systems).

Prior to joining Franklin Templeton, Mr. Manikanta worked as research analyst with Factset, LLC. where he had responsibility for equity research.

Mr. Manikanta holds a Bachelor of commerce from Badruka college of commerce in India and MBA from JNT University in India.