Sundaram Balanced Advantage Fund – Direct Plan

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Performance analysis

Rolling returns in quartiles

The 3-year rolling excess median return has gradually come down from around 4% from May 2016 to -1.77% in April 2023. The dispersion between upper and lower quartile is still wide at +12.43% and -7.78% pa.

The fund has generated negative excess returns during the period between May 2016 – April 2023. The blue line’s time below the median line indicates that the fund has underperformed the performance of the median. However, the fund started with positive returns at 5% per annum in May 2016 but kept declining over the years.

Rolling risk/return (Snail-trail) 

Funds in this category have shown slightly higher (-3.5 to +7) standard deviation compared to the volatility of the index.

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The fund has shown a significant time around -4% to -6% per annum, whilst lower than the index volatility of -4% to -3% per annum. However, in May 2023, the excess returns came down to around -4%. The fund has given negative returns with low volatility.

Tracking error

The tracking error ranges between 1% to 16% for the period May 2020 to May 2023.

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The tracking error was the highest at 6.3% in 2020 – 21. However, in May 2023, the tracking error came down to around 2%. The overall range has been around 6.3% to 1.5%.

Information ratio

The rolling IR has been quite volatile ranging from -5 to 5 making it difficult to discern any skill.

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In Sep 2022, the information ratio reached the peak at 3. However, in May 2023, the ratio came down to 0.2 The overall range has been around 3 to -4.

Prepared by – Oraina Dsouza, June 2023

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