Kotak Focused Equity Fund – Direct Plan 

ISIN INF174KA1EN7

Overall analysis 

1-yr rolling excess returns and TE against benchmark have been quite neutral; and the funds. The fund had given a moderate return in comparison to its peers. Information Ratio has been below 1, which indicates that it is not an active fund.

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 was underperforming and didn’t cross the third green median line at starting. On Dec-2021, the fund gave the highest 1Y-Rolling Return of 4.91%. 


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 quite neutral 1-year excess returns, touching 4.91% per annum with a risk of      -0.01%. However, the excess return was neutral from the past few years.

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 below 1 but on Dec-2021 it went around 1.11.  

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 above average, quality is average and size of the fund is quite large.

Prepared by – Ashutosh Sahu, August 2023

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