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Motilal Oswal Growth Anchors Fund – AIF Category III

Motilal Oswal Asset Management Company Limited

About Company

MOFSL was founded in 1987 with 2 employees as a sub-broking unit with their main focus of customer-first attitude, ethical and transparent business practices, and many more. Today Motilal is a diverse firm that is working on a range of financial products and services such as Private Wealth, Retail Broking and Distribution, Institutional Broking, Asset Management, Investment Banking, Private Equity, Commodity Broking, Currency Broking, Home Finance, etc. Motilal has clients of retail customers, mutual funds, foreign institutional investors, financial institutions, corporate clients, etc. They have more than 44,00,000+ customers across the globe. They make every decision with solid research at present they have 25+ research analysts researching over 250 companies across 20 sectors.

Category: AIF, AIF Category III

Fund Snapshot

Fund Tenure: 6 years from first close + 2 years extension provision
Drawdown Structure: 30% initial followed by other drawdowns at the discretions of IM or 10% initial followed by 9 SIPs
Exit Load after First Close: 4% for 24-36 Months, 3% for 36-48 Months, 2% for 48-60 Months, NIL Thereafter
Lock-In Period: 24 Months from First Close
Redemption: Monthly
Final Close: Upto 12 Months from First Close
Commitment Period: Upto 12 Months from Final Close

Diversified Financial Services Platform

Today, MOFSL operates as a well-diversified financial services group offering a wide spectrum of products and solutions, including:

  • Private Wealth Management
     
  • Retail Broking and Distribution
     
  • Institutional Broking
     
  • Asset Management
     
  • Investment Banking
     
  • Private Equity
     
  • Commodity and Currency Broking
     
  • Home Finance
     

This integrated platform allows the firm to serve clients across multiple financial needs under one umbrella.

Broad and Expanding Client Base

MOFSL serves a highly diversified clientele comprising retail investors (including high net-worth individuals), mutual funds, foreign institutional investors, financial institutions, and corporate clients. Headquartered in Mumbai, the firm had, as of March 2023, an extensive presence across more than 550 cities and towns. Its network includes over 2,500 business locations operated by business partners and in-house teams, catering to a customer base exceeding 5.5 million.

Research-Led Advisory Strength

Research forms the backbone of MOFSL’s advisory and investment philosophy. Nearly 10% of the firm’s revenue is consistently reinvested into equity research, reflecting its long-term commitment to knowledge-led decision-making. The organization employs and trains top-tier talent, with over 25 research analysts actively tracking more than 250 companies across 20 sectors.
Its research capabilities span fundamental, technical, and derivatives analysis, with reports that regularly receive wide media coverage.

Industry Recognition and Awards

MOFSL’s sustained focus on high-quality equity research has translated into improved ratings and rankings across multiple categories in the AsiaMoney Brokers Poll over the years. The firm has also been recognized as the Best Performing Equity Broker (National) at the CNBC TV18 Financial Advisor Awards for five consecutive years, earning induction into the prestigious Hall of Fame at the 10th Financial Advisory Awards in 2019.

A Research-Driven Growth Story

From modest beginnings to becoming a leading name in India’s financial services landscape, MOFSL’s journey reflects disciplined growth anchored in research excellence, client trust, and long-term value creation.

Core Investment Philosophy: QGLP

The firm’s core investment philosophy, QGLP, combined with robust risk management processes, drives the creation of high-quality, high-growth portfolios across all managed assets. The deliberate blend of quality and growth represents the optimal balance for long-term wealth creation. Anchored in clearly defined principles and beliefs, this philosophy consistently guides investment decisions and is viewed as a key driver of sustainable financial success for clients.

High Quality: Built for Sustainability

Quality is seen as a natural outcome of sustainable growth. The philosophy emphasizes both the quality of the business and the quality of management.

  • Quality of Management is assessed through the efficiency of capital allocation. Judicious, timely, and disciplined deployment of capital is considered essential for long-term business success.
     
  • Quality of Business is evaluated using return metrics—Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) for non-financial companies and Return on Equity (ROE) for financial companies.
     

Businesses with low leverage and consistently high ROIC or ROE are better positioned to fund growth through internal accruals, reducing dependence on excessive borrowing or equity dilution over time.

High Growth: Compounding Over the Long Term

The philosophy focuses on investing in businesses demonstrating strong and sustainable profit growth. Over the long run, earnings remain the primary driver of stock prices, making consistent growth a critical factor in long-term compounding.

These investments typically span industries and companies that are well-positioned for expansion, innovation, and durable profitability. By prioritizing sustainable earnings growth, the approach aims to capture superior long-term returns while maintaining portfolio resilience.

Quality Meets Growth

By combining high-quality fundamentals with high-growth potential, the QGLP philosophy seeks to build portfolios that are resilient across market cycles and capable of delivering meaningful long-term value for clients.

Robust Risk Management

Risk management forms a critical pillar of the investment portfolio construction process. It builds awareness around the importance of capital preservation, long-term stability, and maintaining an optimal risk–return trade-off. A stringent risk management framework is embedded within the investment process, with a strong focus on stock and sector weightages, position sizing, diversification, disciplined profit-taking and stop-loss mechanisms, and liquidity management.

In essence, effective risk management enables portfolios to balance returns with risk more efficiently. It combines strategic decision-making, structured diversification, and continuous monitoring, allowing portfolios to adapt proactively to evolving market conditions.

Key Risk Management Frameworks

  • Stock Weightage and Position Sizing
    Minimum and maximum exposure limits are defined to prevent concentration risk at the individual stock level.
     
  • Sector Sizing Discipline
    Clear limits are set on sector exposure and deviations relative to benchmark indices, ensuring balanced sectoral allocation.
     
  • Profit-Taking and Stop-Loss Framework
    A proprietary framework is used to identify triggers for profit booking and loss containment in a disciplined manner.
     
  • Diversification Strategy
    Portfolio size is capped at up to 35 stocks to maintain meaningful diversification while preserving focus.
     
  • Stringent Liquidity Framework
    Strong liquidity filters ensure the ability to enter or exit positions efficiently, enabling timely action when market conditions change.
     

Risk as a Strategic Advantage

By integrating robust risk controls with active portfolio monitoring, the framework aims to protect capital, reduce volatility, and support consistent long-term performance across market cycles.

 

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Fund Manager

Raamdeo Agrawal

Raamdeo Agrawal

Raamdeo Agrawal is the chairman and co-founder of Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd. He is known as a renowned value investor who believes in the power of compounding. In 2019, he was among the list of billionaires according to Forbes, with a net worth of $1 billion in 2018.

 

Raamdeo was born and brought up in the village of Chattisgarh. He is a man with dignity and discipline. Later he moved to Mumbai to study to become a Chartered Accountant. He wrote the book Corporate Numbers Games with Ram K P. Mriparia. Mr. Raamdeo also authored The Art Of Wealth Creation.

 

He maintained a consistent track record of the highest integrity in tax payments for five years from FY95-FY99 and thus received Rashtriya Samman Patra by the Central Board of Direct Taxes for the same. One would be glad to know that Raamdeo Agrawal considers Warren Buffett a mentor, and his investment strategy is exceptionally inspired by him.

Prateek Agrawal

Prateek Agrawal

Mr Prateek Agrawal is responsible for Business and Investment Strategy during his job at Motilal Oswal Asset Management.  He has a rich experience of over 28 years in fund management and equity research. He joins MOAMC from ASK Investment Managers, where he served as the Business Head and Chief Investment Officer. Prior to that, he worked with Bol AXA Mutual Fund and BNP Paribas Mutual Fund as Head of Equity and Head of Research at SBI Capital Markets.

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