facebook

Motilal Oswal AMC PMS

IME Rating

IME PMS Rating

3 of 5 stars

Motilal PMS, co-founded by a highly-respected investor, boasts stability in its core investment team, strong processes, a defined philosophy, and backing from a strong broking & MF business. Despite its strong pedigree, the performance of its strategies has been weak in recent years accompanied by substantial churn & change in the core investment team. While fund performance has started to improve, we would wait to see a more sustained turnaround under the new investment team, prior to upgrading our lower 3-star rating for an established PMS provider.

The PMS/AIF AMC Rating is derived on the basis of our analysis on 5 key qualitative parameters that we use to analyse the quality of a PMS/AIF Provider. These include an assessment of the size of the AMC, the pedigree of the AMC, the pedigree of the team, the value of the investment philosophy & the level of differentiation. These insights of our central research team are documented in the IME RMS, and can be accessed during a consultation call with an IME PMS specialist.

 

AMC Background

Motilal is one of India’s most successful PMS houses, on the back of the formidable investment reputation & track record of its co-founder Ramdeo Agarwal, whose investment discipline of investing in high-quality companies with sustained competitive advantages has stood the test of time. It is amongst the oldest and largest PMS houses in the country, and is known for a strong fundamental-driven investment style. Motilal has a number of intrinsic strengths that make it a great choice as a PMS, including a promoter that comes with a formidable investment track record, a strong adherence to a fundemental long-term investment approach and the benefits that come from being a part of one of the largest brokers & mutual funds in India.

Investment Philosophy

Motilal has a very clearly defined investment philosophy of long-term investing in high quality companies that meet their QGLP investment criteria. They have followed this strategy consistently for over 2 decades, with limited style drift.

The QGLP Framework:

  • Quality of the Business and Quality of the Management: Stable businesses preferable consumer facing, with huge business opportunity and sustainable competitive advantages. Businesses run by competent management.
  • Growth in Earnings: Driven by volume growth, price growth, mix change, operating and financial leverage.
  • Longevity (of Quality and Growth): Dictated by long-term relevance of the business, extending competitive advantage period and sustenance of growth momentum.
  • Price: Reasonable valuation, relative to quality and growth prospects with high margin of safety.

Once they have identified stocks that meet their strict QGLP criteria, Motilal aims to Sit Tight (by following a long-term buy-and-hold approach in concentrated stock portfolios.)

Investment Team

Abhishek Anand | 3-star rated FM

Fund Manager | 21 yrs Experience | 1 yrs at current firm

Past Experience: Centrum Wealth Management, Centrum Broking, SBI Capital Markets, Dun & Bradstreet, CMIE

Abhishek Anand has 20+ years of experience with 8 years in institutional equity research covering sectors such as Telecom, Media, IT & Consumer. He has won the Starmine Top Analyst Award for 2011-12 and 2012-13 by Thomson Reuters. His previous assignments were with the institutional research division of SBI Capital Markets, Dun & Bradstreet, and CMIE.

Prateek Agrawal | 5-star rated FM

Executive Director | 31 yrs Experience | 3 yrs at current firm

Past Experience: BoI AXA MF (Head of Equity), BNP Paribas MF (Head of Equity), SBI Capital Markets (Head of Research)

Prateek is the CEO of Motilal Oswal AMC. He has over 3 decades of experience in fund management and research, having worked in senior positions in BoI AXA MF, BNP Paribas MF, SBI Capital Markets and ASK. In his last stint at ASK, he was spearheaded the growth of ASK PMS over this period.

Vaibhav Agarwal | 3-star rated FM

Fund Manager | 14 yrs Experience | 3 yrs at current firm

Past Experience: Analyst bank loan Ratings(Crisil)

Vaibhav Agrwal is the founder of Teji Mandi, which is a platform aimed at helping retail investors in india navigate the volatility of the markets through affordable and quality advisory. He has managed a proprietary pms and has over a decade experience in stock picking and generating index-beating returns.

PMS & Listed Equity AIF Schemes

Scheme Category 1 yr 3 yr 5 yr Since Inc
Motilal AMC Value Migration Large Cap 10.1 19.7 25 19.5
Motilal AMC Mid to Mega Mid & Smallcap 12.6 15.8 31.9 24.2
Motilal AMC Next Trillion Dollar Opportunity Large & Midcap 0.3 8.2 19.4 14.5

Returns as of 31-Mar-25

Free 30-Day Trial of the IME RMS

Details shared above, are only a short-snapshot of the more detailed analysis that resides in IME’s Proprietary RMS (Research Management Solution).

The IME RMS is the first tool ever, to give investors direct access to the insights of the central research team. Investors gain direct access to our ratings, rating rationales & analysis across thousands of funds (MFs, PMSs, AIFs, Global funds), asset classes, categories & more.

 Learn More