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Top Trumps: India equities – 16 January 2025

This week FSA provides a quick comparison of two India equity funds: the Allianz India Equity fund defeats the Franklin India fund.
Source: FE Fundinfo. All relevant fund data converted to US dollars for comparative purposes. Performance, alpha and volatility are annualised over three years with data as reported at the end of last month. Information ratio (IR) aims to measure a portfolio manager’s consistent ability to generate excess returns relative to a benchmark. The higher the IR, the more consistent the manager is.

Based on the popular 80s card game, each week we select an asset class and use FE fundinfo data to compare two funds based on their three-year performance, assets under management, alpha, volatility, ongoing charges and information ratio to decide which is the Top Trump.

This week, the Allianz India Equity fund defeats the Franklin India fund 5‐1.

Allianz India Equity fund

The fund concentrates on the stocks of companies domiciled in the Indian subcontinent, in particular in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka or Bangladesh. Its investment objective is to attain capital growth over the long term.

Sector allocation:

  1. Consumer Discretionary (25.6%)
  2. Financials (20.9%)
  3. Information Technology (13.4%)
  4. Industrials (13.2%)
  5. Utilities (6.9%)
  6. Real Estate (5.8%)
  7. Energy (3%)
  8. Materials (2.3%)
  9. Communication Services (2%)
  10. Others (7%)

Franklin India fund

The fund pursues an actively managed investment strategy and invests mainly in equity and equity-related securities issued by companies of any size located in, or doing significant business in, India.

Sector allocation:

  1. Financials (25.2%)
  2. Consumer Discretionary (23.7%)
  3. Information Technology (14.9%)
  4. Industrials (9.9%)
  5. Healthcare (9.8%)
  6. Consumer Staples (5.8%)
  7. Energy (3.5%)
  8. Materials (2%)
  9. Others (6.9%)
  10. Cash & Cash Equivalents (1.79%)

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