Stocks euphoria in India draws warning from top-performing fund
时间:2024-06-02 05:19:19 阅读(143)
Sailesh Raj Bhan has become wary of the exuberance surrounding Indian stocks as a $790 billion rally since late March rambles on.
The chief investment officer at Nippon Life India Asset Management Ltd. says it’s increasingly difficult to find opportunities in the $3.8 trillion market, where benchmarks have just hit record highs. That’s after a focus on high-conviction bets at reasonable prices helped place three of his firm’s equity funds among this year’s 10 top-performing Indian mutual funds, the strongest showing among peers.
Bhan, a graduate in genetics with a masters degree in business administration, is particularly worried about the boom in small- and mid-cap stocks. His comments come as some strategists have been sounding alarms over the relentless surge in these shares, which is driven in part by India’s retail investing boom.
The Nifty Smallcap Index and the Nifty Midcap Index have each jumped about 30% year-to-date. The benchmark NSE Nifty 50 Index has risen over 11%, beating broader gauges of Asian and emerging-market stocks by at least six percentage points.
Global funds piled a net $17 billion into the nation’s equities in the first eight months of this year as optimism over growth in the economy and corporate earnings, along with persistent weakness in China, boosted the market’s appeal. They have been sellers of local stocks so far in September.
“It’s very simple — this euphoria is the single biggest risk because you are mis-allocating capital at these times,” he said, adding that investors are making decisions with “emotions over logic.”
Early wagers on state-backed manufacturing and banking shares have helped the Nippon India Equity Opportunities Fund, the largest among those managed by Bhan, beat 96% of peers in 2023 and 91% over the past five years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
While Bhan claims that some of his fund house’s bets on manufacturing and some bank stocks have yielded five or 10 times their initial investments these last few years, they are now trimming positions to find “sensible value” elsewhere.
“We have to the transition to pockets of the market where we think there is value,” he said. The asset manager now prefers large-caps in sectors like pharmaceuticals, utilities and consumer staples.
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