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White Oak Pioneers Equity

AUM (4394 cr) | Inc Date (27-Sep-2018)

Scheme Rating

IME Scheme Rating

5 of 5 stars

The highly diversified investment approach, backed by strong investment processes & a highly seasoned investment team, makes WhiteOak India Pioneers a good option for investors seeking a PMS strategy with superior risk-adjusted returns (as compared to the potentially more volatile concentrated PMS strategies).

IME Strategy Rating

5 of 5 stars

White Oak India Pioneers follows a proven GARP (Growth at a Reasonable Price) approach—investing in high-quality businesses at attractive valuations. While widely adopted, the real edge lies in execution, where Prashant Khemka’s strong track record stands out. The portfolio is also uniquely diversified, with 50+ holdings—far broader than most PMS strategies—helping deliver superior risk-adjusted returns through lower concentration risk. It’s a time-tested philosophy, backed by Prashant’s experience and consistency built over years at Goldman Sachs.

AMC Rating

5 of 5 stars

AMC: WhiteOak PMS (click link for detailed AMC review)

Founded by a credible CIO with strong investment credentials and a solid research team, White Oak offers a reliable PMS option for long-term capital deployment.

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

Invest in a diversified basket of 30-50 great businesses that are available at an attractive price.

  • Great Business: well managed, scalable long-term opportunity, strong returns on incremental capital, strong execution & governance track record
  • Attractive Valuations: aim to identify businesses where the estimated intrinsic value is significantly different from market prices
  • Focus on stocks: as compared to focusing on the macro
  • Avoid businesses with red flags: poor corporate governance, weak incremental ROCEs, potential obsolescence risk

INVESTMENT PROCESS

  • Avoid misgovernance: White Oak aims to avoid misgoverned companies by recognizing various forms of misgovernance such as companies cheating existing promoters, cheating investors, unethical or illegal business administration processes, misaligned interests or objectives and poor accounting.
  • Universe Screening: Beginning with a large investible universe (~750 companies with a  >$150 mn mkt cap), WhiteOak narrows down the universe to what it defines as great businesses (~150), from which it invests in between 30-50 companies which it believes to be attractively valued 
  • Time tested analytical framework: driven by idea generation, analysis, decision & sizing and an ongoing evaluation

PORTFOLIO CONSTRUCTION AND RISK MANAGEMENT

  • Balanced Portfolio Approach: White Oak follows a balanced Portfolio that aims to avoid market timing or sector rotation and aims for alpha generation through stock selection.
  • Typical exposure limits: Single Stock: 10% at market value | Single promoter group: 25% | Single industry 30%
  • Proposed Market Cap weights: 40-60% Large Cap and 60-40% Mid and Smallcap

Trailing Performance

1yr 3yr 5yr Since Inception
White Oak Pioneers Equity 8.9 12.2 20.8 16.9
S&P BSE 500 4.5 13.7 22.2 15.4
Alpha over Broad Mkt BM 4.4 -1.5 -1.4 1.5

Performance as of: 30-Apr-25 | Inception Date: 27-Sep-18

Fund Managers

Prashant Khemka | 5-star rated FM

Founder & CIO | 27 yrs Experience | 8 yrs at current firm

Past Experience: Goldman AMC (CIO – Global EM Fund), State Street Global (FM)

Prashant founded WhiteOak in 2017 with an impeccable investment track record. Prashant was the CIO & Lead Fund Manager for the Goldman Sachs India Equity & Global Emerging Market Funds. These funds have won multiple global awards and accolades for consistent investment performance. Over Prashant’s tenure GS India Equity scaled to a $2.5 bn fund from scratch (delivering 266% gross returns vs 66% for the benchmark), while GS GEM scaled from $675 mn to $2.6 bn (with a 36% gross US $ return vs 13.1% for the benchmark).

Fee Structure

Fee Structure Fee
Fixed Fee Structure 0.025
Variable Fee Structures 1.5% Fixed Fee + 20% over BSE 500 Benchmark
Exit Fees

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