Alchemy High Growth Select Stock – (PMS)

  • Investment Objective
  • Why Alchemy High Growth Select Stock
  • Terms at a Glance
  • Fund Manager

Investment Objective

The objective is to generate long-term returns by investing in equities and equity related instruments, across all market capitalizations.

Why Alchemy High Growth Select Stock?

  • Reason for investing is that India is one of the fastest growing economies and has sufficient entrepreneurial reserves to exploit the opportunities
  • “Top-Down” and “Bottom-Up” approach to stock picking with focus on superior risk-reward.
  • A usual portfolio comprises of 8-12 stocks across sectors; single stock exposure is capped at maximum 25 percent at cost.

Terms at a Glance

  • CATEGORY - Equity Concentrated
  • TYPE - Open ended
  • BENCHMARK - S&P BSE 500 TRI
  • INDICATIVE TENURE OR INVESTMENT HORIZON - Minimum 3-5 years
  • FUND STYLE - Multi-cap growth
  • LAUNCH DATE - 20th Dec, 2008
  • MINIMUM INVESTMENT - INR 3 crores
  • OTHER TERMS

    Philosophy: The philosophy behind growth investing is based on the assumption that India is a high growth economy with a strong entrepreneurial culture. Our endeavour is to identify and invest in growth companies through a combination of top‐down and bottoms up fundamental research to enable long term wealth creation.
    A typical Portfolio may generally consist of between 8‐14 stocks across sectors. We may construct such concentrated Portfolios as per the Clients need and understanding.

    Strategy: Invest in companies across the market capitalization range, which have high growth potential and potential to deliver long‐term capital appreciation.

    Equity

    • Relevant Universe - We have identified a relevant universe of about 500 companies based on market capitalisation (above 1000 crores preferably), qualitative governance filters, long term attractiveness and ROE profile of business amongst other parameters.
    • Investible Universe - From this relevant universe, an investible universe of companies is created based on assessment of past and future fundamental variables like revenue and EBIDTA growth, cashflow conversion efficiency and core ROE of the business amongst several other relevant variables which may be unique to a business. In addition to objective fundamental parameters and assessment of qualitative management capabilities, governance standards and competitive ability of the business is also carried out. A comprehensive valuation exercise is also carried out based on one and/or combination of valuation parameterslike P/E, P/B. EV/EBIDTA, DCF etc to arrive at an acceptable valuation range for investing in the security.
    • Portfolio Construction - The Portfolio manager managing the strategy is then free to construct the Clients Portfolio from within the investible universe at his discretion.

    Upto 100% in equity (cash portion may be deployed in liquid funds/ debt Securities).

    "S & P BSE 500 - TRI index serves as a comprehensive representation of the Indian economy, The index comprises of the top 500 companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange, with selection based on a combination of average float‐adjusted market capitalization, average value traded, and average total market capitalization. Hence, we believe S& P BSE 500 -TRI is considered to be appropriate benchmark which would reflect the realistic comparison with the Portfolio performance."

    High Risk

    • General risk
      Please refer “Risk Factors” given in clause 6 of the Disclosure Document
    • Specific risk
      The Portfolio Manager doesn’t envisage any specific risks in addition to General Risk factors

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Fund Manager – Hiren Ved

Hiren Ved, an equity market veteran, serves as the Director and CIO at Alchemy Capital Management where he has been leading the firm’s Asset Management business. With over 30 years of experience in the Indian equities market, Hiren has developed a sustainable long-term investment philosophy based on fundamental research. He is known for his deep sector knowledge, bottom-up research skills and stock picking abilities. Hiren manages and advises funds USD 978 mn (as on September 30, 2023) across domestic PMS and offshore institutional mandates for Alchemy Capital. He holds a graduate degree in Accounting from Mumbai University and a post-graduation in Management & Cost Accounting from The Institute of Cost Accountants of India.