![]() Kunal Valia, director, Credit Suisse Securities India, said that “there have been cases of high portfolio turnover ratios, despite the scheme delivering good performance, and vice versa." Valia believes that “risk-adjusted ratios offer more insight into a fund’s performance than the portfolio turnover ratio. If they are taxed, turnover would reduce. One reason behind a high turnover is also that mutual funds are not taxed when they buy and sell. Most experts agree that there isn’t one number beyond which a turnover is said to be high. ![]() Sekhar said that in current times, when equity markets have been buoyant, fund managers have done well, despite having turnover ratios “on the higher side". “What is an appropriate turnover, applies according to the situation and the markets we are in," said Shyam Sekhar, founder, ithought, a Chennai-based mutual fund advisory firm. Patil cited the examples of fast moving consumer goods sector where companies may not be available at single-digit P-E, but even a lower P-E scrip, relative to the broad market’s P-E, could become a value buy for BPVF.Įxperts say that portfolio turnover is an important ratio, but shouldn’t be looked at in isolation. It is not a typical buy and hold scheme," he said. It doesn’t just automatically mean a very low price-equity (P-E) ratio stock, like say when stocks are available at a P-E of 5 or 7 or 10 times and so on. Patil said that once BPVF’s underlying holdings hit their target price, the scheme sells them. Ltd, said this is inevitable as it is a result of the scheme’s strategy. Mahesh Patil, co-chief investment officer, Birla Sun Life Asset Management Co. Birla Sun Life Pure Value Fund (BPVF) has bucked this trend and sported a turnover of 118% for the year ended March 2017. Similarly, schemes that follow a value investment philosophy are expected to have lower turnover. Then, there are funds whose strategies call for higher turnover ratio. Of the 24 funds with a turnover of more than 100%, 11 had a corpus size of less than Rs100 crore each. Typically, smaller funds tend to have large turnover ratios. Typically, when a new manager comes in, he tries to align the portfolio to reflect his thoughts, and likes and dislikes so some changes are inevitable. ![]() Sundaram, chief investment officer–equities, DHFL Pramerica. “As a result of the merger, there was a change of fund manager, which necessitated some higher turnover but it will come down progressively in the next few months," said E.A. Two of DHFL Pramerica’s large-cap oriented schemes-DHFL Pramerica Diversified Equity Fund and DHFL Pramerica Large-cap Fund-have a turnover of 273% and 142%, respectively, as on the year-ended March 2017. Ltd bought out Deutsche Asset Management (India) Pvt. In 2016, DHFL Pramerica Asset Managers Pvt. Such changes can either occur when a fund house takes stock of its funds-as part of an internal exercise-or they can happen when two fund houses merge. “The turnover may seem high but as we had changed our portfolio strategy, some stocks over a period of time had to go out," said Siddharth Bothra, senior vice-president and fund manager, Motilal Oswal Asset Management Co. Instead of focusing on the 200 largest companies by market capitalisation, the scheme restricted its focus on the 100 largest companies (to the tune of 65% of the portfolio). In 2014, the scheme underwent a small change in strategy. Motilal Oswal MOSt Focused 25 Fund’s turnover ratio was 104% for the year ended March 2017. One of the reasons why portfolio turnover ratios could be high is because the fund manager changes strategy midway. Remaining 112 with combined assets of Rs1.76 trillion had a turnover ratio of more than 36%.Įven if you double the median number, you will find 42 schemes with a turnover in excess of 72% and 24 schemes had a turnover in excess of 100%. Of the 224 equity funds, 112 (totaling Rs2.3 trillion) had turnover ratios of up to 36%. Then, we took a median of all these average portfolio turnover numbers. We took the turnover ratios of large-, mid-, multi-cap and tax-savings equity funds and took an average of their turnover ratios for the 1-year ending periods as on March and September 2015, March and September 2016, and March 2017. ![]() However, almost all experts we spoke to agreed that what constitutes a high or low portfolio turnover is subjective.Īs per the capital markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India’s (Sebi) guidelines, all fund houses must disclose their portfolio turnover twice a year. If the portfolio turnover is greater than 100%, that typically means that fund manager has churned the portfolio once over, completely," said Mahesh Patil, co-chief investment officer, Birla Sun Life Asset Management Co. What is a high turnover ratio? “I would say it should be 100%. ![]()
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