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360 ONE Focused Equity Fund Regular Payout of Income Distribution cum Cap Wdrl INF579M01886

NAV / 1-Day Return
41.10 / 0.78%
Total Assets
69.6 Bil
Inception Date
Oct 30, 2014
Expense Ratio
1.810%
Fee Level
Load
Deferred
Category
India Fund Focused Fund
Investment Style
Large Growth
Minimum Initial Investment
1,000
Status
Open
TTM Yield
0.00%
Turnover
27.80%

Morningstar’s Analysis

360 ONE Focused Equity Reg IDCW-P boasts strong People and Process Pillar ratings, but other weaknesses hold this strategy's Morningstar Medalist Rating at Neutral.
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Summary

The strategy charges fees in line with its similarly distributed peers, priced within the middle quintile.

The lengthy experience of the strategy's longest-tenured manager drives the strategy's Above Average People Pillar rating. The strategy's investment approach stands out and earns an Above Average Process Pillar rating. High liquidity exposure is attributed to stocks with a high trading volume, lending managers more flexibility. And momentum exposure is rooted in holding stocks currently on a winning streak. The strategy's parent organization doesn't stand out, earning the firm an Average Parent Pillar rating. It has displayed a handful of investor-friendly attributes including a high lineup success ratio and a high average Morningstar Rating.

Morningstar's evaluation of this fund's process seeks to understand management's investment philosophy, and whether it has been applied consistently over time and can add value across the market cycle.

Process

Above Average

360 ONE Focused Equity earns an Above Average Process Pillar rating.

The most significant contributor to the rating is the parent firm's five-year risk-adjusted success ratio of 100%. The measure indicates the percentage of a firm's funds that have outperformed their respective category's median return for the period. Noteworthy risk-adjusted performance also supports the rating. This can be seen in the fund's 10-year alpha calculated relative to the category average, which suggests that the managers have shown skill in their allocation of risk. However, the process is limited by being an actively managed strategy. Historical data, like Morningstar's Active/Passive Barometer, finds that actively managed funds have generally underperformed their passive counterparts, especially over longer time horizons.

This strategy, over time, has preferred smaller market-cap companies, compared with others in the Focused Fund Morningstar Category. But in terms of style (value/growth) exposure, it does not have much of a bias and resembles the category's typical portfolio. Examining additional factor exposure, this fund has constantly tilted toward stocks with higher trading volumes than its Morningstar Category Peers over the past few years. Such stocks may have less potential upside than illiquid holdings, but they are easier to trade during market downturns. In recent months, the strategy was more exposed to the Liquidity factor compared with its Morningstar Category peers as well. This strategy has also had more exposure to high-momentum stocks in recent years. Momentum is based on the premise that market outperformers will continue to outperform, and laggards will continue to lag. This means that managers are overweighting stocks currently on a winning streak. Compared with category peers, the strategy also had more exposure to the Momentum factor in the most recent month. Additionally, this strategy's portfolio has held more stocks with high dividend or buyback yields than peers over recent years. Higher-yield stocks can provide dependable income, but also have their risks. Dividend payers may cut payouts, for instance, if their earnings fall. Nevertheless, the fund's Yield exposure was in line with peers in the latest month. More information on a fund and its respective category's factor exposure can be found in the Factor Profile module within the Portfolio section.

The portfolio is overweight in industrials and communication services relative to the category average by 4.4 and 3.9 percentage points, respectively. The sectors with low exposure compared with category peers are consumer defensive and energy; however, the allocations are similar to the category. The portfolio is positioned across 33 holdings and is relatively concentrated. In particular, 55.7% of the strategy's assets are housed within the top 10 holdings, compared with the typical peer's 33.4%.

360 ONE Focused Equity earns an Above Average People Pillar rating.

People

Above Average

The main contributor to the rating is its parent firm's five-year success ratio of 100%. The measure indicates the percentage of a firm's funds that have beat their respective category's median return for the period. The size of the portfolio management team also influences the rating. With two portfolio managers, the fund is reasonably well-resourced. Lastly, the rating is limited by the instability of its management team. The fund last saw a manager change one month ago, which suggests that it could do more to retain its portfolio managers.

Mayur Patel, the longest-tenured manager, has nine years of listed portfolio management experience.

Morningstar generates quantitatively driven content for managed investments covered by the Morningstar Medalist Rating.

Parent

Average

This share class’ quantitatively driven Parent Pillar content was not generated because of insufficient data. To generate individualized content, the Medalist Rating quantitative analysis requires sufficient data to generate its framework of “ mental models ” designed to mimic content written by analysts.

An algorithmically assigned Parent Pillar uses an algorithm designed to predict the Parent Pillar rating analysts would assign the investment product, if they covered it.

This share class, with returns reported in Indian Rupee, has lapped both its peers and the category benchmark.

Performance

This share class outpaced its average peer by 3.1 percentage points annualized over a 10-year period. And it also outperformed the category index, the S&P BSE 500 India Index, by an annualized 1.9 percentage points over the same period.

The risk-adjusted performance only continues to make a case for this fund. The share class outstripped the index with a higher Sharpe ratio, a measure of risk-adjusted return, over the trailing 10-year period. These strong risk-adjusted results have not come with a bumpier ride for investors. This strategy took on similar risk as the benchmark, as measured by standard deviation. Finally, the share class proved itself effective by generating positive alpha, over the same 10-year period, against the category group index: a benchmark that encapsulates the performance of the broader asset class.

Returns vary from period to period, but expenses are always deducted.

Price

It is good practice to weigh them heavily in any investment evaluation. This share class is in the middle quintile of its Morningstar Category. Its middling fee, paired with the fund’s People, Process, and Parent Pillars, suggests that this share class could struggle to produce positive alpha against its category benchmark, explaining its Morningstar Medalist Rating of Neutral.


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