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Motilal AMC Mid to Mega

AUM (1856 cr) | Inc Date (24-Dec-2019)

Scheme Rating

IME Scheme Rating

3 of 5 stars

While Motilal has all the required credentials for a strong PMS strategy, continued underperformance in recent years with limited signs of strategies to turn around the same, lead to us not recommending Motilal Mid to Mega at this time. We would wait for clearer signs of performance to improve before recommending the same.

IME Strategy Rating

4 of 5 stars

The Strategy expertise in mid-cap aims to invest in a concentrated portfolio (15-20 stocks) of top mid-cap ideas. Focusing on emerging businesses benefiting from a growth in earnings and valuations re-rating. The portfolio has minimal style drift, remaining concentrated and with exposures predominantly in mid-caps. There is a clearly defined investment philosophy of long-term investing in high-quality companies that meet Motilal’s QGLP Philosophy (Quality, Growth, Longevity, Price).

AMC Rating

3 of 5 stars

AMC: Motilal Oswal AMC PMS (click link for detailed AMC review)

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.

PMS Scheme Ratings are driven by IME’s Proprietary Scheme Rating Methodology, which takes into account our ratings of the Scheme’s investment strategy, its maturity, the investment team, and our separate rating on the AMC that runs this particular scheme. Our views on each of these individual criteria are available via the IME RMS – which you can view by reaching out to one of our relationship managers (using either the live chat or book appointment feature on this site).

Investment Philosophy

Motilal’s Focused Midcap strategy aims to invest in a concentrated portfolio (15-20 stocks) of their top mid-cap ideas (companies ranked 101-400 in market capitalisation). The focus is on emerging businesses that can benefit from a growth in earnings and valuation re-rating. Mid-cap focus is driven by the premise that most multi-baggers are found in mid and small-cap space. 

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.)

STRATEGY

  • Growth: outlook of 20%+ at a portfolio level and portfolio level ROE at 15%+
  • Reversion to mean: Invest in companies where valuations have corrected in last 2 years while they have retained their earnings profile
  • Sector: little or no allocations to Commodities and global cyclicals

PORTFOLIO CONSTRUCTION

  • Allocation: based on convictions on companies and does not necessarily dependent on the price
  • Action-based on price movement: Mismatch of price and timelines should lead to action on folio on both sides i.e. selling and buying. Regular trimming of positions if price targets run ahead of timelines.

 

Trailing Performance

1yr 3yr 5yr Since Inception
Motilal AMC Mid to Mega -2.8 21 31.6 26.2
S&P BSE 500 7.4 16.8 23.6 17.8
Alpha over Broad Mkt BM -10.2 4.2 8 8.4
Nifty Midcap 150 9.4 25.8 33.1
Alpha over Category BM -12.2 -4.8 -1.5

Performance as of: 31-May-25 | Inception Date: 24-Dec-19

Fund Managers

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.

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.

Rakesh Tarway | 3-star rated FM

Fund Manager | 19 yrs Experience | 7 yrs at current firm

Past Experience: Reliance Securities (Head of Research), Motilal Securities (Head of Research), HSBC InvestDirect (Analyst)

Rakesh is a seasoned equity research professional, with a focus on identifying emerging businesses in the small & mid-cap sectors.

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.

Fee Structure

Fee Structure Fee
Fixed Fee Structure
Variable Fee Structures 0 fixed fee + 20% above 6% hurdle
Exit Fees 1yr(2%)

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