Appendix 4: Analysis of our performance over last seven years

As Sameeksha has completed seven years of operating the PMS, it is worth reviewing seven key aspects of our performance.

 

Particulars

Summary of our performance 

1.

Aggregate portfolio returns as of March 31, 2023 

(Refer Table 8- Appendix 4)

·         Since inception3 till March 31st 2023, Sameeksha PMS has delivered annualized alpha of 5%.

·         For the five year and three year periods ending 31st March 2023, Sameeksha PMS has delivered  annualized alpha of 7% and 9% respectively.      

2.

Fund performance on a Financial Year basis 

(Refer Table 9 and 10- Appendix 4)

·         Delivered alpha1 (outperformance over the benchmark 2) in 5 out of 7 Years 

·         Aggregate annual alpha over all the seven years ~ 41% 

·         Median alpha ~ 3.2%

3.

Fund performance on a rolling period basis

(Refer Table 11 – Appendix 4)

·         5 year rolling period since inception

o    Alpha delivered 100% of the time (i.e 25 out of 25 observations)

o    Median alpha ~ 6%

·         3 year rolling period since inception

o    Alpha delivered 96% of the time (i.e 46 out of 48 observations)

o    Median alpha ~ 9%                                                                                          

4.

Returns of Individual portfolios

(Refer Table 12, Table 13 and Table 14 – Appendix 4)

·         As Sameeksha PMS does not follow model portfolio approach, tracking individual client performance becomes more relevant

·         For example, a client who invested in our PMS approximately Five years ago has realized  an annualized alpha of 10%  over benchmark as of March 2023. 

·         A vast majority of our clients with an age of account from six months to seven years have realized  positive alpha.

5.

Risk Adjusted Ratios

(Refer Table 15 – Appendix 4)

·         Our portfolio beta (0.7) has been materially lower than the benchmark, and our returns have been higher than the benchmark since inception, implying superior risk adjusted performance

6.

PMS Universe rankings

(Refer Table 16 – Appendix 4)

·         Among multicap PMSes with AUM more than INR 100 crs as of March 31st 2023, Sameeksha is ranked 3rd out of 49 funds for five year period and 7th out of 65 PMSes for the three period as per performance reported to PMS Bazaar. 

7.

Rolling returns and rankings

(Refer Table 17 and Table 18 – Appendix 4)

·         For the rolling five year period, we have been in the Top Decile 100% of the time (25 out of 25 observations)

·         For the rolling 3 yr period, we have been in the Top Decile 69% of the time (33 out of 48 observations). 

It is important to note that we have maintained relatively higher levels of cash (13.6% on average over the entire period from inception) from time to time over the duration of managing the portfolio. Notwithstanding the same, from inception as well as over five and three years respectively, we have generated returns of 18.9%, 18.6% and 38.6% beating the benchmark BSE500 TRI returns of 13.9%, 11.8% and 29.3% respectively after fees and expenses. Before deducting fees and expenses, we have generated returns of 20.3%, 19.9% and 40.8% for the period from inception (~7 years), five years and three years respectively. We have delivered strong returns relative to benchmark across various key time periods. (Table 8).  

Table 8: Portfolio % performance as of 31st March 2023 since inception

Period

Portfolio 1 2 (A)

S&P BSE 500 TRI (B)

Alpha vs BSE500 TRI (A-B)

BSE MidCap TRI (C)

Alpha vs BSE Midcap TRI (A-C)

BSE SmallCap TRI (D)

Alpha vs BSE Smallcap TRI (A-D)

Since Inception 3 4

18.9

13.9

5.1

13.6

5.3

15.2

3.7

5 Years

18.6

11.8

6.8

9.8

8.8

10.7

7.9

3 Years

38.6

29.3

9.2

33.0

5.5

42.1

(3.6)

2 Years

13.6

10.1

3.5

10.4

3.1

15.2

(1.6)

1 Year

4.5

(0.9)

5.4

1.1

3.5

(3.6)

8.2

6 Months

4.4

(1.6)

6.0

(2.7)

7.1

(5.0)

9.4

3 Months

(1.2)

(5.7)

4.5

(4.7)

3.5

(6.6)

5.4

1 Month

0.3

0.4

(0.1)

(0.3)

0.6

(1.4)

1.7

1. Post Fees and Expenses, 2. Aggregate Portfolio , 3. Annualized For more than one year 4. From Inception (1/4/2016) till 31st March 2023

Performance on a Financial Year basis 

 

For the current financial year ending March 2023 (April 2022 to March 2023), Sameeksha PMS has outperformed the benchmark BSE 500 TRI by generating 4.5% returns against the benchmark BSE500TRI returns of -0.9% (Table 9).  Discerning investors would notice that we have delivered this performance despite maintaining a meaningful percentage of our portfolio in cash from time to time and that is well reflected in our risk-adjusted-performance outcomes. 

Table 9: Absolute and
relative performance (Financial Year)

Year ended

% Performance

Average Cash Level (%)

Portfolio Turnover

(%)

Portfolio (A) 1 2

S&P BSE 500 TRI (B)

Alpha vs S&P BSE 500
TRI (A-B)

BSE MID CAP TRI (C)

Alpha vs MID CAP TRI
(A-C)

BSE SMALL CAP TRI (D)

Alpha vs SMALL CAP TRI
(A-C)

31.03.2023 3

4.5

(0.9)

5.4

1.1

3.4

(3.6)

8.1

11.0

85

31.03.2022

23.4

22.3

1.1

20.7

2.7

37.7

(14.3)

13.3

89

31.03.2021

106.3

78.6

27.7

93.0

13.3

116.5

(10.2)

5.9

88

31.03.2020

(13.0)

(26.5)

13.5

(30.8)

17.8

(35.1)

22.1

7.5

109

31.03.2019

1.4

9.7

(8.3)

(2.1)

3.5

(10.9)

12.3

13.5

60

31.03.2018

11.7

13.2

(1.5)

14.3

(2.6)

18.5

(6.8)

23.3

68

31.03.2017

28.7

25.5

3.2

34.3

(5.6)

37.8

(9.1)

20.8

65

1. Post Fees and Expenses, 2. Aggregate Portfolio  3. As of 31st March 2023

Looking at our performance over the financial years, we have outperformed the broader indices BSE500 TRI and BSE Midcap TRI in five out of seven financial years. That is to say, we managed to carve out an annual alpha 71% of the times over the seven financial years.  It is important to note that we delivered this alpha despite maintaining a median cash level of 13.3% across the seven financial years. Further, our PMS has delivered a substantial aggregate annual alpha of 41.1% over BSE500 TRI with a median alpha of 3.2% (Table 10).

Table 10: Key data on alpha generation over 7 financial years since inception

Key Indices

Aggregate alpha generated

Median alpha generated

% times alpha generated over 7 FYs

BSE500 TRI

41.1

3.2

71%

BSE Midcap TRI

32.5

3.4

71%

BSE Smallcap TRI

2.1

(6.8)

43%

Fund performance on a rolling period basis

Rolling returns are a more useful indicator of consistency in performance versus single period returns. For the rolling three year periods applicable to our entire operating history, Sameeksha PMS has delivered annualized alpha 96% of the times (46 out of 48 observations) ranging from 0.5% to 23% alpha. For the rolling five year periods applicable, Sameeksha PMS has delivered annualized alpha 100% of the time (25 out of 25 observations) ranging from 5% to 10% alpha (Table 11).

 

Table 11 : Number of times alpha1 generated over 5 year rolling periods and 3 year rolling periods

Particulars

5 yr rolling periods

3 yr rolling periods

Number of observations

25

48

Number of times alpha1 generated

25

46

% times alpha1 generated

100%

96%

Median annualized alpha1

6%

9%

Maximum annualized alpha1

10%

23%

Minimum annualized alpha1

5%

0.5%

Performance Of Individual Portfolios

Because we don’t follow model portfolio strategy, the performance of individual clients is far more important than overall portfolio aggregate returns. For investors who are with us for 3 years and more, Sameeksha PMS has returned a very substantial alpha with a median annualized alpha of approx. 8% for the three year period ending 31st March 2023. Similarly, for investors who are with us for 5 years and more, Sameeksha PMS has returned substantial alpha with a median annualized alpha of approx. 6% for the five year period ending 31st March 2023.  As shown in Table 12, the vast majority of our clients have seen positive alpha over benchmark.  

Table 12: Performance of
Client Portfolios across various duration

Since Inception

Five Years

(Benchmark1 Return =
11.8%)
2

Three Years

(Benchmark1 Return =
29.3%)
2

Two Years

(Benchmark1 Return =
10.1%)
2

Median Returns (%) 5

Median Benchmark Returns (%) 1

Alpha %

Median Returns (%) 5

Alpha %

Median Returns (%) 5

Alpha %

Median Returns (%) 5

Alpha %

19.2

12.7

6.4

18.7

6.9

40.8

11.5

13.2

3.1

17.5

13.4

4.1

17.3

5.5

37.3

8.0

8.7

-1.4

15.3

11.7

3.6

17.3

5.5

37.0

7.7

8.6

-1.5

15.8

10.9

5.0

17.8

6.0

37.9

8.6

11.6

1.5

20.9

11.3

9.6

21.6

9.8

39.4

10.1

15.0

4.9

22.4

11.1

11.3

38.8

9.5

14.7

4.6

22.7

13.1

9.7

37.3

8.0

13.7

3.6

24.5

14.0

10.5

38.9

9.6

13.4

3.3

30.3

23.2

7.1

37.6

8.3

11.6

1.5

22.5

19.2

3.3

14.8

4.7

12.3

8.8

3.6

14.1

4.0

2.0

0.4

1.6

7.5

0.7

6.9

3.1

-4.2

7.3

Long term investors, mainly investor accounts older than 5 years and 3 years, have carved out strong alpha, thereby proving Sameeksha PMS to be a valuable partner for their investments (Table 13). 

Table 13 : Performance of portfolios of clients staying with us over long duration 3

Particulars

Older than 5 yrs 1

Older than 3 yrs 2

Median Returns %

17.6

37.7

Benchmark 4 returns %

11.4

25.5

Median returns since inception %

17.6

21.2

Median Benchmark 4 since Inception %

12.7

12.8

Median Age

6.5

4.9

1. 5 yr performance returns (post fees and expenses)  2. 3 yr performance returns (post fees and expenses) 3. As on 31st March 2023  4. S&P BSE500 TRI

Our NRI clients have also seen strong returns even after factoring in rupee depreciation against US dollars. The portfolio returns are significantly higher than both BSE 500 TRI and S&P 500 TRI, generating strong alpha over both these indices (Table 14)

Table 14: Performance of a sample of Individual NRI Portfolios 3

Age of Account

Portfolio Returns (INR) 1 2

(%)

Returns after USD conversion

TRI (%)

BSE 500

TRI (%)

S&P 500

TRI (%)

5.1 years

227.9

159.2

70.7

63.9

4.4 years

236.0

198.8

83.1

64.6

1. Aggregate Portfolio, 2. Post fees and Expenses , 3. As of 31st March 2023

 

Risk Adjusted Ratios

When compared on a risk-adjusted basis, our PMS shows an even stronger performance with a risk-adjusted alpha generation of 9.0% over the broader market benchmark since its inception. While our portfolio beta has been materially lower than our benchmark, our returns have been higher than the benchmark since inception, implying superior strong risk adjusted returns.

Furthermore, other risk-adjusted returns – Sharpe ratio and Treynor ratio, are also significantly higher than the benchmark indices (Table 15).  It is worth noting that we offer superior risk adjusted returns not only compared to the broad BSE500 index heavily weighted towards large cap but also the small cap and mid cap benchmarks as demonstrated by our Sharpe ratio, Alpha, Treynor ratio and Beta.

Table 15: Risk-Adjusted Performance Ratios 1

Performance Indicators

V/s BSE

500

V/s BSE Midcap

V/s BSE Smallcap

Portfolio

Index

Portfolio

Index

Portfolio

Index

Jensen’s Alpha (x)

9.0

0

10.5

0

10.0

0

Treynor Ratio (x)

26.5

14.1

22.5

10.2

25.8

12.3

Sharpe Ratio (x)

1.0

0.7

1.0

0.53

1.0

0.6

CAPM Beta(x)

0.7

1

0.9

1

0.8

1

R – Squared (%)

65

100

76

100

78

100

1. From Inception (1/4/2016) till 31st March 2023

 

Performance within the PMS Universe 

 

We continue to maintain our top rankings both within the multicap PMS universe as well as the entire PMS universe for key periods of three and five years. The multicap PMS universe rankings are more relevant to us since we follow the multicap strategy.

In the interest of a fair comparison, we present our rankings among those multicap PMSes with AUM more than INR 100 crs. For the three year period, we are ranked 7th out of 65 PMSes. Further, we are ranked 3rd out of 49 PMSes for the five year period comparison within the multicap universe – highlighting our superior performance over the long term periods (Table 16). Among the multicap universe (considering all AUM), we are consistently ranked in the Top Decile for the five year period for all 25 out of 25 observations reflecting well on the consistency of our performance.

Table 16: Comparison with PMS Multicap Universe as of 31st March 2023

Fund or Category / Returns Generated 1 2

1 year (%)

2 year (%)

3 year (%)

5 year (%)

Sameeksha PMS

4.52

13.55

38.6

18.6

Multicap Universe Average

-3.2

10.3

28.3

10.5

Decile Rank within the Multicap Universe

9th Decile

8th Decile

Top Decile

Top Decile

Percentile Rank within the Multicap Universe

Top 19%

Top 29%

Top 10%

Top 3%

Rank within the Multicap Universe 3 4 5 6

15th out of 75

22nd out of 73

7th out of 65

3rd out of 49

Rolling Returns and Rankings

For the rolling three year periods applicable to our entire operating history, we have been ranked among the multicap universe in the Top Decile 69% of the time (33 out of 48 observations) and in the Top Quartile 92% of the time (44 out of 48 observations). For the remaining 8% observations, we were ranked in the Second Quartile (Tables 17 and 18).  For the rolling five year periods applicable for our entire operating history, we have been ranked among the multicap universe in the Top Decile 100% of the time (25 out of 25 observations). 

Table 17: Decile distribution of our rank within the Multicap PMS universe on a rolling basis since April 2019

Particulars

1 yr

3 yrs

5 yrs

Number of Observations

48

48

25

Top Decile 1

42%

69%

100%

9th Decile 2

23%

19%

0%

8th Decile

10%

8%

0%

7th Decile

2%

2%

0%

6th Decile

8%

2%

0%

5th Decile

4%

0%

0%

4th Decile

6%

0%

0%

3rd Decile

4%

0%

0%

Total

100%

100%

100%

1). Top Quartile = in the top 25%, i.e. outperformed 75% of the funds (2) 2nd Quartile = in the top 50% i.e. outperformed 50% of the funds

Table 18: Number of Top Quartile Rankings on a rolling basis

Particulars

1 yr

3 yrs

5 yrs

No. of Multicap observations from April 2019

48

48

25

Top Quartile 1

69%

92%

100%

2nd Quartile 2

23%

8%

0%

3rd Quartile

4%

0%

0%

4th Quartile

4%

0%

0%

Total

100%

100%

100%

1). Top Quartile = in the top 25%, i.e. outperformed 75% of the funds (2) 2nd Quartile = in the top 50% i.e. outperformed 50% of the funds

 

Cumulative Performance versus the benchmark

Sameeksha’s outperformance over its benchmark has continued to widen positively over the years. An investment of Rs. 100 with us since inception (April 2016) would have grown to Rs. 336, far outpacing what one would have earned by investing in a fund that achieved benchmark returns (Figure 1)


Links:


Main Page: Annual Letter: FY 2022-23 (Year Ending Mar 31, 2023)

Appendix 1: Performance Of The Fund For FY2023
Appendix 2: Key Performance Contributors In FY2023
Appendix 3: Current View On Top Seven Positions

Appendix 5: Outlook For Indian Economy