After putting an impressive show in 2005, it delivered a pretty muted performance in 2006 and 2007. Even if the fund suffered temporarily, it stuck to good quality businesses, diversification and is wary of richly valued investments. In 2007, low exposure metals or construction and energy helped the fund.
This fund fell 50 per cent in 2008, marginally lower than the category average (54 per cent)without plunging into large caps or aggressive cash calls. It was fully invested when the market picked up in March 2009 returning 106 per cent.
The large corpus has resulted the fund get more diversified. With less than 20 stocks in the portfolio till 2003, it now holds 60. The top 10 holdings have averaged at around 40 per cent in past one year.
All in all, despite hitting the occasional road block, its still one of the sturdiest shops around.