HSBC Focused Equity Fund – Direct Plan 

ISIN INF336L01PB2

Overall analysis 

1-yr rolling excess returns have given higher returns against the benchmark and TE range is between 2-4%l; and the funds  performance is active. The fund has given a high return in comparison to its peers.

Performance analysis

Rolling returns in quartiles

The rolling return chart shows excess 3-year annualised returns in context of peer return quartiles. The blue line’s time above the third green median line indicates the fund’s better than median performance.

The funds rolling return chart shows that the fund crosses the third green median line which indicates the fund is better than median performance. The fund has shown neutral performance at starting but later on after 2022, it gave the highest 1Y- Rolling Return of 2.77%.


Rolling risk/return (Snail-trail) 

The rolling risk/return chart shows excess 3-year annualised returns relative to the index. The top left quadrant would indicate higher returns with lower volatility than index.

This fund has shown good 1-year excess returns, touching 2.77% per annum with a risk of -0.14%. However, the excess return was around -4.67% with a risk of 0.53 towards the end of 2022.

Tracking error

The tracking error chart shows how the fund ‘tracks’ against the index. The higher the TE, the more active the fund’s return has been, with the 2-4% range considered to be barely active, 4-6% range considered to be reasonably active and anything higher attributed to concentrated/focused funds. Funds with TE of less than 2% can be considered to be closet indexers.

Tracking Error of the fund has been good which was around 3-6%. It shows that this fund is Moderately Active. 

Information ratio

The information ratio is a measure of ‘risk-adjusted return’ as it’s the excess return per unit of excess volatility. Active funds should have IR of higher than 1, ideally higher than 1.3 at least to indicate skill. 

The information ratio of the fund of 1Y-IR shows neutral. It went highest 0.70 on Jun-2023 and  lowest  -1.15 on Dec-2022. 

Portfolio analysis

Stock style chart

Morningstar’s stock style chart shows the ‘style’ of the stocks in the portfolio in terms of size and value/growth style. The centroid shows the weighted average while the zone circle shows how varied the stock styles are.

The Stock Style chart of the fund shows the fund is a large cap growth fund.

Factor profile chart

Morningstar’s factor profile shows the historical style analysis of the stocks in the portfolio in terms of size, value/growth style and other key factors. The blue circle shows the fund relative to the black dot for the category average.

The factor profile chart shows that the fund’s growth style, yield, volatility & liquidity is moderately low, momentum is high, quality is average and size of the fund is quite large.

Prepared by – Ashutosh Sahu, August 2023

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