Alchemy Select Stock – PMS

  • Investment Objective, Philosophy, & Strategy
  • Why Alchemy Select Stock
  • Terms at a Glance
  • Fund Manager
  • Performance

Investment Objective

The objective is to generate long-term returns by investing in equities and equity related instruments, across all market capitalizations.

Philosophy

The philosophy behind growth investing is based on the assumption that India is a high growth economy with a strong entrepreneurial culture. Our endeavour is to identify and invest in growth companies through a combination of top‐down and bottoms up fundamental research to enable long term wealth creation. A typical Portfolio generally consists of between 8‐14 stocks across sectors. We may construct such concentrated Portfolios as per the Clients need and understanding.

Strategy

Invest in companies across the market capitalization range, which have high growth potential and potential to deliver long‐term capital appreciation.

Why Alchemy Select Stock?

  • Reason for investing is that India is one of the fastest growing economies and has sufficient entrepreneurial reserves to exploit the opportunities
  • “Top-Down” and “Bottom-Up” approach to stock picking with focus on superior risk-reward.
  • A usual portfolio comprises of 8-14 stocks across sectors; single stock exposure is capped at maximum 25 percent at cost.

Terms at a Glance

  • CATEGORY - Equity Concentrated
  • TYPE - Open ended
  • BENCHMARK - BSE 500 TRI
  • INDICATIVE TENURE OR INVESTMENT HORIZON - 3 – 5 years
  • FUND STYLE - Multi-cap growth
  • LAUNCH DATE - 19th Dec, 2008
  • MINIMUM INVESTMENT - INR 5 crores
  • OTHER TERMS

    Equity

    • Relevant Universe - We have identified a relevant universe of about 500 companies based on market capitalisation (above 1000 crores preferably), qualitative governance filters, long term attractiveness and ROE profile of business amongst other parameters.
    • Investible Universe - From this relevant universe, an investible universe of companies is created based on assessment of past and future fundamental variables like revenue and EBIDTA growth, cashflow conversion efficiency and core ROE of the business amongst several other relevant variables which may be unique to a business. In addition to objective fundamental parameters and assessment of qualitative management capabilities, governance standards and competitive ability of the business is also carried out. A comprehensive valuation exercise is also carried out based on one and/or combination of valuation parameterslike P/E, P/B. EV/EBIDTA, DCF etc to arrive at an acceptable valuation range for investing in the security.
    • Portfolio Construction - The Portfolio manager managing the strategy is then free to construct the Clients Portfolio from within the investible universe at his discretion.

    Upto 100% in equity (cash portion may be deployed in liquid funds/ debt Securities).

    As per APMI Circular APMI/ 2022-23/02 dated March 23, 2023.

    High Risk

    • General risk
      Please refer “Risk Factors” given in clause 6 of the Disclosure Document
    • Specific risk
      The Portfolio Manager doesn’t envisage any specific risks in addition to General Risk factors

    NA

 

Fund Manager – Hiren Ved

Hiren Ved, an equity market veteran, co-founded Alchemy Capital Management in 1999. He is the Director & CIO at Alchemy Capital Management, where he leads the firm’s Asset Management business. With his experience and expertise, Hiren has developed a sustainable long-term investment philosophy based on fundamental research that has helped deliver long-term returns for clients.

Hiren’s journey in the equity markets began in 1991 when he started working with KR Choksey & Co., a sell-side firm known for its value investment approach.  Starting as an analyst, he gradually rose to become the Head of Research, building a strong foundation in bottom-up research. Witnessing various cycles of Indian markets, Hiren firmly believes in long-term investment strategy.

In 1994, Hiren joined Prime Securities, an Investment Bank, where he served as an investment analyst and subsequently became the Head of Equities, overseeing both listed and private equity investments within the investments of the internal treasury in both the listed and private equity space.

With over three decades of experience in the Indian equities market and public market investments, Hiren has a long track record of alpha generation over 20 years. He possesses deep and diverse knowledge across sectors and is known for his bottom-up research and stock-picking skills.

He holds a graduate degree in Accounting from Mumbai University and a post-graduation in Management & Cost Accounting from The Institute of Cost Accountants of India.

Performance

  1M 3M 6M 1Y 3Y 5Y 10Y Since Inception *
Portfolio Returns# -0.03% -6.4% -1.8% 19.7% 22.7% 18.2% 16.7% 19.3%
BSE 500 TRI Returns 0.5% -3.1% 3.2% 17.3% 17.7% 14.8% 16.1% 15.7%

Data as of February 28, 2026 | *Inception Date: December 19, 2008

#Performance related information provided herein is not verified by SEBI | Returns are net of fees, expenses & taxes (if applicable). Returns less than 365 days: Absolute, greater than 365 days: CAGR (Computed using TWRR method). Past performance is not indicative of future performance. The above performance figures are aggregate of all discretionary clients; the investor’s actual portfolio may differ. Please refer the below link for viewing Performance relative to other portfolio managers:  https://www.apmiindia.org/apmi/welcomeiaperformance.htm?action=PMSmenu