Centauri Investment Group is a developing student finance club and passion project. We explore markets through investment research, economics, quantitative analysis, and simulated portfolio management.
An educational student project. We do not accept investor funds or provide investment services.
Real questions. Practical experience.
Learning through the work itself.
Founded by Fernando Landivar, Centauri brings the spirit of a finance club to an independent student passion project. We study businesses and economies, test ideas with simulated capital, build analytical tools, and share what we learn.
The club is currently founder-led and developing. It is created by students, for students, with a simple ambition: make finance a subject we can explore together through questions, practical projects, and thoughtful discussion.
Centauri is an independent, developing student finance club and educational passion project founded by Fernando Landivar. We research companies and economies, build quantitative tools, and share what we learn. We are not affiliated with a commercial investment firm.
No. MARLEY 2026–2027 is a simulated educational portfolio. Its $1,000,000 starting NAV represents paper capital, not money held for investors. Centauri does not accept deposits or investor funds, manage money for others, or offer investment services or advice.
Express your interest using our student interest form. Fernando will follow up about research, economics, portfolio learning, quantitative projects, or financial writing. No prior finance experience is needed. Participation enquiries do not automatically subscribe you to The Dip newsletter.
Express Your Interest (opens Google Forms in a new tab)Simulated capital.
Real decisions to learn from.
Our educational portfolios are a place to test research, track decisions, and reflect on the results. MARLEY is our first simulated fund.
A thesis, put into practice.
MARLEY is an actively managed educational portfolio with simulated capital. Its objective is to generate excess returns over the S&P 500 while maintaining disciplined risk management. Every decision is an opportunity to test our reasoning.
INVESTMENT HORIZONOpportunistic / swing and medium-term
PORTFOLIO REPORTINGDated updates will be added when available. No returns are reported yet.
Document the idea.
Review what it teaches us.
Investment decisions begin with a clearly documented thesis. Understand the business, the valuation, and the opportunity before committing simulated capital.
Focus capital where research identifies the strongest opportunities. Every position should earn its place in the portfolio.
Consider position sizing, valuation, macroeconomic conditions, and thesis invalidation before and after entering a position.
Review the thesis when earnings, valuations, management, industry conditions, or macroeconomic conditions materially change.
Understand the business.
Question the assumptions.
An educational review of NVIDIA's investment thesis, valuation, catalysts, staged entry plan, and shared portfolio risks as of September 25, 2026.
Read Original Report (opens in Google Docs in a new tab)The reasoning behind MARLEY's first simulated equity position, including the original Broadcom thesis, entry strategy, risk plan, and review criteria.
Read Original Report (opens in Google Docs in a new tab)Our framework for evidence, source integrity, transparent assumptions, analytical independence, and research that fits student schedules.
Read Original Report (opens in Google Docs in a new tab)Original documents open in Google Docs. Historical reports describe the research and simulated decisions at their stated dates, not current holdings or recommendations. Some retain the project's former name, Capitale Landivar.
Centauri is currently led by Fernando Landivar. Our areas of focus give students different ways to get involved, from researching a business to writing for The Dip. We are building the club step by step, with room for new interests and contributions.
Understand economies, companies, and market regimes.
Translate research into simulated portfolio decisions.
Explore transactions, valuation, and corporate strategy.
Build analytical tools and test ideas with data.
Make financial knowledge clear and accessible.
THE STUDENT PERSPECTIVE ON MARKETSRead The Dip, explore our original research, or follow the ideas behind MARLEY. Our publications make the club's learning process visible, with new work shared as it is ready.
Student-written market commentary, ideas, and lessons from following financial markets.
Read The DipOriginal research, methodology, and historical portfolio decision records.
Explore ResearchEducational portfolio context and the research behind simulated decisions.
Explore Our FundsYou do not need to know everything about finance to start. Bring a question, research a company, explore a dataset, or help make an idea easier to understand. Help build a student finance club where we learn by working on real questions together.
