Mahindra Manulife Focused Equity Yojana – Direct Plan 

 ISIN INF174V01AG7

Overall analysis 

1-yr rolling excess returns and TE against benchmark have been excellent overall; and the funds performance in the long run have been impressive. The fund had given the maximum excess return in comparison to its peers, which shows its potential. IR shows that it is 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 crosses the third green median line which indicates the fund is better than median performance. This fund gave an excellent 3Y-Rolling Return maximum of 11.11% on Jan-2022. 


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 impressive 1-year excess returns, touching 11.11% per annum with a risk of 0.20%. However, the excess return was consistent during 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 was 3.07 on Jan-2020, it went down 0.35 on June-2023.

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, blend of value & 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 is below average, volatility & liquidity is 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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