Siddharth Bothra is the Fund Manager of Ambit Coffee Can Portfolio at Ambit Asset Management. He has over 25 years of experience in Investment and Equity Research. Before joining Ambit, he had a long ~18 year plus stint with Motilal Oswal Financial Services (MOFSL) across institutional equities and asset management. At Motilal Oswal Asset Management (MOAMC) he was part of the core team, which launched the active Mutual Fund in 2013. Siddharth Bothra was instrumental in growing MOAMC’s active Mutual Fund’s AUM from Nil to INR220b. He managed their Focused Large Cap 25 Fund and Aggressive Hybrid Fund and was overseeing ~INR150 billion across four funds at its peak. His expertise spans large-cap, midcap, flexicap and hybrid funds and is consistently positioned focused 25 in the top 10 funds in its category in nine out of eleven years, on long-term rankings. During his stint, MOAMC was recognized as the best equity house in 2018 by the Thomson Reuters Lipper Fund Award and ranked amongst the Top 100 Asset Managers in Asia by Institutional Investor. Before his asset management stint, Siddharth was an institutional analyst looking at various sectors from Mid caps, Infrastructure and Textiles. As an analyst he won several accolades and recognition. Siddharth is an alumni of the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, which included an International MBA Exchange semester with NYU Stern School of Business, New York. Siddharth’s strong belief in long-term compounding aligns with the fund’s mandate and Ambit Asset Management’s investment philosophy, emphasizing quality and long-term goals.
Investing in high-quality growth stocks (mainly large-cap) while keeping the portfolio churn to low/zero level.
Investment Approach
The Coffee Can construct hinges on investing in high-quality franchises which have a superior track record over the preceding decade. The intended average holding period of a stock is longer than 8-10 years, resulting in a churn of less than 1 stock per year on an average.
Ambit Investment Advisors Pvt Ltd manages assets worth Rs 2294.75 crores. Its current offering of PMS schemes includes 1 Large Cap, 1 Mid Cap, 1 Small And Mid Cap and 1 Small Cap schemes.