Union Focused Fund – Direct Plan 

ISIN INF582M01FS4

Overall analysis

3-yr rolling excess returns remains near the lower quartile and TE against benchmark have been good overall; The fund has not given the maximum excess return in comparison to its peers; but has dropped to below the first quartile over the past 1 year.

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 is close to the lower quartile line, the maximum rolling return of a focused fund is 11%% whereas this specific fund’s maximum rolling return is 1.25% which is not ideal. The Rolling Return Chart shows a motionless performance. The fund has been hovering around the top quartile and the median range; which is a range of -2% – 2% excess return approx.


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.

The snail trail chart is not great, but is in the harmless section of the chart. The fund has almost always been in the negative excess return with negative risk. Though negative excess return is not a great result for a MF, at least the fund has not taken any risk for it.

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.

TE of the fund has been overall good, In 2020 it started with 5 and hovered between 5-8% and has dropped to 4.5% which is moderately good.

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 dropped in 2021 and it has mostly stayed in negative since then, which is not ideal.

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, quality, volatility & liquidity is low, momentum is above average and size of the fund is large.

Prepared by – Ashutosh Sahu, August 2023

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