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Sachin Nagarajan
Sachin Nagarajan is an associate manager research analyst for Morningstar Research Services LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Morningstar, Inc. He assigns forward-looking ratings to U.S.-based, actively managed stock funds.
Before joining Morningstar's manager research team in 2022, Nagarajan worked on Morningstar's editorial team, where he showcased the firm's equity research and sustainable investing content. He was also a customer support representative on the Morningstar Office support team.
Nagarajan holds a bachelor's degree in English from University of Dayton.
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