Comparison & Review of Top Equity PMSs in India
Unlike Mutual Funds, where SEBI has come out with clear guidelines of % allocation towards large, mid & small-caps between different fund categories, no such clear guidelines exist in the case of PMS & AIF Funds. This can lead to confusion for investors, since 2 funds both defined as multi-cap or market-cap agnostic, may have very different allocations towards large, mid & small-cap companies.
In order to address this issue, at IME Capital we have broken down the multi-cap category, into 3 sub-categories - (a) Large & Mid-cap (b) Flexicap (c) Mid & Small-cap. All PMS's with a multi-cap approach, are slotted into one of these 3 sub-categories (based on actual portfolio compositions being followed), in order to provide a more like-to-like comparisons.
Top Large & Mid-Cap PMS/AIFs
IMEs Large & Mid-cap PMS category
Comprises schemes that have a minimal exposure to small-caps. The risk on such strategies are accordingly considerably less, than flexi-cap or mid & small cap strategies, where small-cap exposures can lead to higher volatilty.
Top Flexi-Cap PMS/AIFs
IMEs Flexi-cap category
Comprises schemes that have allocations to large, mid & small-caps and schemes that retain the flexibility of shifting allocations between these 3 market-cap segments. The risk on these strategies is higher than the large & mid-cap category, but this is typically compensated by the potential for higher returns driven by small-cap allocations.
Top Mid & Small-cap PMS/AIFs
IMEs Mid & Small-cap category
These are strategies where the majority of investments typically are in the small & mid-cap space, with a limited (20% or less) allocation towards large-caps. Some of these funds are often classified as multi-cap by the firm/other platforms, but given a relatively low share of large-caps the risk-rewards are clearly on the higher side relative to pure flexi-cap/multi-cap funds.
Top Small-cap PMS/AIFs
IMEs Small-cap category
Smallcaps clearly have the highest potential returns, given a large universe of relatively undiscovered companies and the greatest room for a small company to scale (relative to large-caps). This is however also a segment with the highest volatility in stock prices, stocks with low liquidity, often relatively under-developed corporate governance standards and business models that may not yet be fully developed. This category is accordingly suitable primarily for investors with a high risk-appetite and a willingness to deal with higher levels of volatility.
