Sundaram Chettiappan, CFA

Sundaram Chettiappan is a portfolio manager for Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions. He supports portfolio management, and design and development of Systematic Equity strategies. Mr. Chettiappan is a co-portfolio manager on Franklin Core Equity Funds, which employ a systematic equity approach in the US, EAFE, EM and Canada Equities space. He is also a co-portfolio manager for systematic equity portfolios for large institutional clients and the style premia products (ETF and UCITS).

Prior to joining Franklin Templeton Investments in 2018, Mr. Chettiappan worked at Balyasny Asset Management where he was a senior quantitative researcher building deep fundamental sector-based long/short models within the systematic strategies group. Prior to that he spent 12 years at McKinley Capital Management working on multi-factor alpha modeling and portfolio construction for systematic strategies covering Global and Non-US equities including managing an Emerging Markets equity portfolio systematically for seven years using quantitative equity factors. He entered the financial services industry in 2006.

Mr. Chettiappan holds a bachelor of engineering computer sciences and engineering degree from College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University and a master's degree in quantitative and computational finance from Georgia Institute of Technology. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.