Investment Philosophy Document: Batch B
Investment Philosophy Document: Batch B
Investment Philosophy Document: Batch B
Batch B
Group 7
Vibhor Aggarwal - D001
Saikath Bose - D013
Swati Jain - D027
Abhishek Kudalkar - D031
Gaurav Kumar – D032
Anurag Shukla – D052
Investment objective:
Our fund aims to generate long term capital appreciation by investing in good quality
companies listed on BSE and NSE indices. The objective is to identify fundamentally strong
growth and value stocks which will outperform the market in the long run, generate
substantial alpha and provide downside protection. This will be a growth fund and thus we
will be reinvesting the dividends given by the companies in order to extract higher benefits of
compounding in the long run.
Investment Philosophy:
Our investment philosophy is a blend of value investing and growth investing. For people
who are new to investing, growth investing is investment in stocks that would provide
potential upsides as the companies are expected to increase their earnings in near future while
value stocks are the businesses that have capability to generate strong returns in the long-
term.
Rationale:
The rationale for our philosophy comes from our years of experience in the field of portfolio
management that has helped us identify gaps in investor’s philosophy of trading. Individual
investors may find it a daunting task to pick good stocks from the vast pool of stocks listed
and more often than not end up buying stocks which are popular but overvalued or worthless
penny stocks. This results in missing out on the benefits offered by both types of investment
philosophies.
Our well-developed methodology will help us to identify the right bunch of both growth and
value stocks. We believe that using this blended philosophy we will be able to out-perform
the market by generating consistent returns in the short and medium term while exploiting
market inefficiency and generate huge returns in the long term.
We believe that a blend of these two strategies will be beneficial to our clients and help them
achieve their financial targets. We understand that there is market risk involved in stocks and
hence we not only depend on our predefined criteria of screening as per robust metrics, but
also understand the business fundamentally and single out stocks only if it checks all our
boxes. We aim to tackle volatility with our value-based stocks and on the other hand we also
identify quality companies having strong management structure and competitive advantages
which would help these firms become leaders of the future and yield consistent good returns
for our clients.
Investment Process:
Our fund uses a fundamental, bottom-up stock selection process combined with a top-down
view on sectors. As our fund consists of a mix of both value and growth stocks, we will be
looking at the metrics like revenue growth, earnings growth, operating cash flow, debt/equity,
current ratio, quick ratio, dividend pay-out ratio, P/E, PEG, P/BV among others.
Diversification Process: Our fund aims to harness the power of diversification by investing
in stocks of different sectors to mitigate risk by bringing into picture the power of correlation
and create a better risk-return profile. We also intend to explore the use ETFs to get further
diversification, as this helps us bring in additional components such as commodities and
bonds also and this can be used to improve the portfolio.
Alpha Generation Process: Selecting stocks which have high growth while at the same time
identifying undervalued stocks of fundamentally sound companies based on our bottom up
research in order to outperform the market in the long run.
Management Fees: 0.75% of the AUM will be charged per year. This fee is for the active
management of the fund.