Motilal Oswal IOP

About Company

Fund Snapshot

Year of Inception 2018
Number of Stocks 20-25
Investment Horizon Medium to Long term
Fund Managers Manish Sonthalia

Investment Philosophy

Motilal Oswal’s India Opportunity Portfolio seeks long-term capital appreciation by investing in a concentrated portfolio of high-growth small and mid-cap stocks with the potential to outperform nominal GDP growth over the next 5-7 years and are readily available at affordable market prices.

Their ‘Buy Right: Sit Tight’ principle underpins investment philosophy.

The Buy Right is denoted by – (QLGP):

  • The letter “Q” represents the quality of the company and its management.
  • Earnings growth and a stable RoE are denoted by the letter “G.”
  • The letter “L” represents the business’s competitive advantage or economic moat’s longevity.
  • The letter “P” represents our approach of purchasing a good business for a fair price rather than a fair business for a fair price.

Sit Tight:

  • Purchase and hold: Strictly buy and hold, believing that selecting the right business requires skill. Holding onto these businesses to allow investors to benefit from the entire growth cycle requires even more skill.
  • Focus: We prefer a high conviction portfolio of assets with 25 to 30 stocks.

We assume adequate diversification, but over-diversification dilutes returns and increases market risk.

Key Features And attributes of The Portfolio

  • The fund is a small-cap-oriented, concentrated portfolio of 25 stocks investing in high-growth companies.
  • Identifying companies in their early stages that have the potential to grow into midcap or large-cap companies, resulting in the creation of wealth.
  • In 2018, a new portfolio was created in the midst of difficult market conditions, and it outperformed the benchmark by 2.0% (CAGR).
  • Index agnostic: 89% off the benchmark, the Nifty Small-Cap 100 index.
  • The portfolio includes investments in non-lending financials, oil and gas, and consumer discretionary.

QGLP Framework for Small-caps Quality:

Motilal believes that while quality in some small-cap companies has yet to be proven, many are at the ‘point of emergence.’ Motilal defines the ‘Point of Emergence’ as the point at which a company begins to generate a return on equity greater than the cost of equity (typically 12%).

  • Growth: The correlation between small-cap companies and GDP growth is much stronger.
  • Longevity: Several more small-cap companies have enormous growth potential, allowing for a long runway for growth. Identifying high-quality management is the key to selecting the right small-cap companies.
  • Price: Prices are much more volatile. According to Motilal, “making money in small caps requires vision to see, courage to buy, and patience to hold.”

Unique Feature

Selection of small & mid Cap upcoming Multibagger Stocks

Investment Goal:

The strategy seeks to outperform the market by investing in stocks from industries that can gain from India’s emerging business organisations. It intends to invest primarily in small and midcap stocks, focusing on identifying potential winners. Concentrate on industries and businesses that are expected to grow faster than the average.

Types of securities are described as follows:

Equity Securities chosen as an aspect of the investment strategy: Concentrate on industries and businesses that are expected to grow faster than the average and emphasis emerging themes.

Portfolio allocation across asset classes:

The strategy seeks to invest primarily in small and mid-cap equity-related instruments. However, the strategy is adaptable enough to invest in companies with various market capitalisations.

Benchmark:

Their desired benchmark is Nifty Small Cap 100 TRI.

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Fund Manager

Raamdeo Agrawal

Raamdeo Agrawal

Raamdeo Agrawal is the chairman and co-founder of Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd. He is known as a renowned value investor who believes in the power of compounding. In 2019, he was among the list of billionaires according to Forbes, with a net worth of $1 billion in 2018.

 

Raamdeo was born and brought up in the village of Chattisgarh. He is a man with dignity and discipline. Later he moved to Mumbai to study to become a Chartered Accountant. He wrote the book Corporate Numbers Games with Ram K P. Mriparia. Mr. Raamdeo also authored The Art Of Wealth Creation.

 

He maintained a consistent track record of the highest integrity in tax payments for five years from FY95-FY99 and thus received Rashtriya Samman Patra by the Central Board of Direct Taxes for the same. One would be glad to know that Raamdeo Agrawal considers Warren Buffett a mentor, and his investment strategy is exceptionally inspired by him.

Mr. Manish Sonthalia

Mr. Manish Sonthalia

Since its establishment, Manish has been overseeing the Strategy and acting as the Director of the Motilal Oswal India Fund, Mauritius. He has worked at Motilal Oswal PMS for more than 14 years and has over 25 years of expertise in equities research and fund management. He has overseen the management of different PMS strategies and AIFs at MOAMC and served as the foundational pillar of the PMS investing process. Manish has many postgraduate degrees, such as an MBA in Finance, an FCA, a CS (Company Secretary), and a cost and works accounting (CWA).

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