Birla Sun Life MNC Fund: Retail Research
Birla Sun Life MNC Fund: Retail Research
Birla Sun Life MNC Fund: Retail Research
23 Feb 2016
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Key Points:
(Rebased to 100)
Birla Sun Life MNC Fund is one of the consistently better performing schemes from Equity oriented
categories in the Indian mutual funds industry. The scheme invests primarily in the MNC stocks that are
either listed Indian arm of global companies where the MNC parent holds more than 25%, or where
there is a substantial FII and MNC parent combined holding that adds up to over 50%.
Multinational corporations (MNCs) are enterprises which manage production or deliver services in more
than one country. MNCs in India are attracted towards the countrys large market potential, business
opportunity by virtue of its sheer size and growth, labour competiveness, increasing purchasing power
and emerging as the manufacturing and sourcing location of choice for various industries.
Most of MNCs in India operate mainly in the field of FMCG and pharma spectrum. However, they
operate in niche segments, bring in global expertise and offer consistent growth. These companies are
perceived to offer better products and enjoy brand loyalty. Most MNCs have strong cash balances, high
dividend payout ratios, low debt-to-equity ratios and healthy return ratios. Even as domestic stocks
witnesses significant gyrations, the MNC stocks remain a more stable lot as they fall less during volatile
markets.
There are two schemes - UTI MNC and Birla SunLife MNC coming under the category. Performance of the
MNC funds has been commendable as they managed to deliver higher risk adjusted returns with lower
risk. They outperformed the Equity Diversified category and broader indices with huge margin since
2008. Further, the performance of the category during down cycles was impressive as they managed to
contain their losses very well compared to Equity Diversified funds. They performed very well in
capturing the upside in bull markets as well.
The scheme registered -6%, +29% and +22% of CAGR returns for one, three and five year periods while
the benchmark Nifty MNC posted -15%, +17% and +18% of returns respectively. For the same period,
the peer scheme UTI MNC clocked -7%, +25% and +20% of returns respectively.
Portfolio: Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, Bosch Ltd and Bayer CropScience Ltd are the stocks that topped in its
latest portfolio having weights of 8.2%, 8.02% and 7.58% to its net assets respectively. In the last six
month period, the scheme added 2 new stocks and exited from one stock. The Turnover ratio of the
scheme stood at 8%.
The expense ratio of 2.48% for the scheme is lower compared to its peer that of 2.60%. The corpus of the
scheme as per latest data (Jan 2016) was at Rs. 2,916 crore. The scheme is managed by Mr. Ajay Garg
(6.7 years).
As far as risk measures are concerned, the scheme seems to be slightly higher while compared to peer as
it generated 18.16% (category 17.18%) of Annualized Standard Deviation that generated for last 3 years
period.
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Relative performance of the Scheme:
Point to Point and Rolling returns of the scheme versus peers and benchmarks over the various time frames:
Latest
Total No of
Expense
Corpus (Rs
Equity
Ratio (%)
Crs)
Holdings
Scheme's
Age (Yrs)
Benchmark
21.79
Nifty MNC
2916
46
17.78
Nifty MNC
1729
46
Scheme Name
Standard
Deviation
(Annualised)
1 Year
CAGR
3 Years
CAGR
5 Years
CAGR
7 Years
CAGR
6 Month
Absolute
1 Year
CAGR
2 Years 3 Years
CAGR
CAGR
2.48
-6.35
28.71
21.85
30.28
11.67
26.16
20.75
18.39
18.16
2.60
-7.46
25.14
19.70
26.17
10.14
22.76
18.84
16.95
17.18
Nifty 50
-18.56
6.76
5.50
13.50
4.48
10.72
9.62
10.19
Nifty MNC
-14.65
16.78
8.29
20.75
20.24
20.06
Benchmarks:
3 Year Rolling returns generated from 5 Yrs historical NAV & calculated for multiple periods:
The above chart shows the consistent performance of the Birla SL MNC across the periods.
Rolling returns that calculated from multiple periods could show the clear picture that how
consistently the schemes showed better returns.
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Portfolio Positioning:
Portfolio Market cap break-up over periods:
Riskometer:
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Category Performance:
Risk as measured by Standard Deviation (Ann) calculated from last 3 Yrs periods:
Year on Year performance of the Major categories in Equity Oriented Mutual Funds:
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Relative performance of the Sector indices based on the 3 year rolling returns that calculated from 5 years NAV history for multiple set of periods:
Rolling returns that generated from multiple periods would give us a clear picture on the consistency of the schemes on generating the returns historically. The chart shown above
is plotted from the 3 year rolling returns data that calculated from the 5 years NAV history.
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Relative performance of the sector indices based on year on year returns (calendar year):
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Relative performance of the sector indices based on various equity market cycles:
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