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02/06/2023

Three C’s for FY24

India is in an advantageous position amid global uncertainty. According to the Recession Probabilities Worldwide 2023 data, India has a 0% recession probability this year vs. 75% and 65% for…
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03/05/2023

QuAgility: The need of the hour

"After hard work, the biggest determinant is being in the right place at the right time”, says Michael Bloomberg. In hindsight, it does seem like the perfect determinant for superior…
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03/04/2023

Future – From the lenses of Global CEOs (Series III)

As a continuation of our "Future from the lenses of the Global CEO" series (link1, link2), we are providing insights into the perspectives of global CEOs regarding the future of…
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02/03/2023

Looking beyond the surface: Bottom-up focus

The global macro environment has made investors nervous during the last few weeks. The recent US inflation data suggest that the monetary policy fight to tame inflation may be long-drawn,…
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04/02/2023

Mid & Small-Cap Cos – The Budding Beasts

On both a one-year and five-year basis, India's mid-cap and small-cap indices have significantly underperformed their large-cap counterparts (refer Fig1) as investors sought shelter during the difficult times. Focus is…
Insights
03/01/2023

Zoom in on India

The year 2022 has finally come to an end. S&P 500 was down almost 20% by the year's conclusion, and Nasdaq was down about 32%. Nifty 50, however, was up…
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02/12/2022

AAA Portfolio: Going strong

The AAA portfolio delivered robust sales and EBITDA growth during 2QFY23. The strong performance was due to a combination of factors – the right sectoral allocation as well as the…
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03/11/2022

Equity Market ≠ Economy

During the last nine months, most investors' concerns are centered around the impact of rising inflation and surging interest rates on the equity market. As inflation spiked from 1% to…
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03/10/2022

Europe + 1: Advantage India

European and American markets have broken the June lows. Fed continues to push hard on interest rates, with Jerome Powell declaring 4.5% as the terminal interest rate by next year.…
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02/09/2022

Winning the Game of Change

The average S&P500 company’s life duration has reduced from 90 years in 1935 to 18 years in the present, according to a Mckinsey study. The fast-changing dynamics make the world…
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02/08/2022

Five Reasons to be positive on Indian equity markets

Inflation, higher interest rates and recession fears continue on D-street. However, every cloud has a silver lining. The famous investor, Howard Marks says “The consensus opinion of market participants is…
Insights
01/07/2022

Diversified Equity Portfolio – Recipe to Navigate Volatility

We are living through an unprecedented time in history, marked by geopolitical tensions, high inflation, fear of stagflation, highly volatile and unpredictable financial markets, and the end of a 40-year…
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02/06/2022

Resilient Earnings show by AAA Portfolio Companies

Corporate India 4QFY22 result season is over and we must say that Corporate India Inc delivered a reasonable satisfactory performance in challenging times. While India faced the third wave of…
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02/05/2022

Exports: The Surprise Growth Lever of Corporate India

In FY22, India hit a major milestone of merchandise exports of over USD400bn for the first time. This is a strong 44% higher than FY21 and a full 27% higher…
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01/04/2022

Future – From the lenses of Global CEOs (Series II)

“Change is inevitable in life. You can either resist it and potentially get run over by it, or you can choose to cooperate with it, adapt with it, and learn…
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02/03/2022

Dodging the bullets of uncertainty

Geopolitical tensions involving Russia and Ukraine have been a source of market volatility in recent weeks. As Russia is one of the largest commodity producers, any delay in resolving the…
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02/02/2022

Opportunity in Volatility

The year 2022 has had a rocky start. Equity markets globally witnessed sharp sell-off. India also witnessed similar trends. The BSE-30 and Nifty-50 rose around 5% by January 17, only…
Insights
03/01/2022

Three Investment Mantras for 2022

2021 was a winning year for Indian equity investors as Nifty rallied by ~24%, outperforming most emerging markets. Corporate India delivered robust earnings growth despite a severe second wave of…
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02/12/2021

Winning Against Inflation

"… favored business must have two characteristics: (1) an ability to increase prices rather easily without fear of significant loss of either market share or unit volume, and (2) an…
Insights
02/11/2021

Earnings Flurry

We have been bullish on Indian equity market as we believe that corporate India to deliver strong earnings growth. 2QFY22 results of corporate India, reconfirms our view on revival of…
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01/10/2021

Sensex @60k, What next?

During the last six months, as Sensex is making new lifetime high, the investors are increasingly getting concerned about the market valuations. The common perception is that liquidity is a…
Insights
04/09/2021

Automation & Innovation: The special sauce of long-term investing

In our September 2020 insights titled “Key Investment Themes to Capitalize on the Covid-19 Crisis”, we highlighted how companies at the forefront of automation and innovation would be the big…
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04/08/2021

Opportunity in Quality caused by Paradox

"We’ve really made the money out of high-quality businesses. In some cases, we bought the whole business. And in some cases, we just bought a big block of stock. But…
Insights
01/07/2021

AAA Portfolio Leaders – Marching Ahead in Turbulence!

FY21 was one of the most challenging years for corporate India as the world grappled with the pandemic. During the last financial year, each quarter had its own set of…
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03/06/2021

Resilience – Key to tide over Rising Inflation

As the world is still recovering from the pandemic shock, Corporate India has faced another problem with rising global commodity prices. Today, several commodities are trading near their lifetime highs…
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04/05/2021

Why we remain Pro-Equity?

“Your success as an investor will be determined by how you respond to punctuated moments of terrors, not the years spent on cruise control” –by Morgan Housel in his book…
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02/04/2021

Future – Through the Lens of Global CEOs

March 2021 will mark one year since the WHO declared Covid19 as a global pandemic, upending lives and livelihoods. The pace of disruption is accelerating at an unprecedented rate. As…
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05/03/2021

3QFY21: Robust delivery by AAA IOP PMS

Early FY21, we mentioned three themes to play India’s economic recovery – 1. Acceleration of formalisation 2. China + 1 strategy and 3. Automation and Innovation (refer Key Investment Themes…
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03/02/2021

Union Budget 2021: No Compromise, only Maximise

In our December 2020, AAA Insights, titled “2021: Embrace Optimism”, we had mentioned that the Indian economy is poised for faster growth as 1) the pain of structural reforms is behind…
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04/01/2021

2021: Embrace Optimism

From shock to a positive surprise... While pandemic Covid19 was the biggest shock to the world, discovering a vaccine in a record time of fewer than 12 months is a…
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08/12/2020

Indian Equity – Rally has more legs

In our December 2020, AAA Insights, titled “2021: Embrace Optimism”, we had mentioned that the Indian economy is poised for faster growth as 1) the pain of structural reforms is behind…
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03/11/2020

2QFY21: Positive Surprise by India Inc

Indian economy surprised positively contrary to extreme pessimism during the early days of Covid-19. The economy witnessed significant improvement in high-frequency data indicators like GST collection, diesel consumption, power consumption,…
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08/10/2020

Do not focus on market cap instead focus on net profit + growth

During the last 3 years, we often got a question from the investors "Which Market cap category is expected to outperform? Large or Mid or Small?" Market-cap based allocation is…

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