Fund Manager Anoop Vijaykumar and Shray Chandra discuss momentum investing principles and success of Capitalmind Adaptive Momentum portfolio. Topics include difference between fundamental and quantitative styles, why momentum investing works, lessons learned in managing momentum strategy, and how to maximize strategy outcomes.
Momentum investing simplifies the process by prioritizing recent price trends over company fundamentals.
Momentum strategies are driven by behavioral factors, leveraging human tendency to follow crowd behavior for investment decisions.
Deep dives
Analysis of Momentum Portfolio Performance Over Five Years
The podcast discusses the success of the momentum portfolio managed by Anup Vijay Kumar at Capital Mind over the past five years. The momentum strategy has delivered an annualized return of close to 29%, outperforming the Nifty and NSE 500 by a significant margin. Anup attributes this success to the rules incorporated into the system, allowing for adaptive maneuvers during market volatility, such as in March 2020, showcasing the effectiveness of the strategy in managing risk.
Differences Between Momentum and Fundamental Investing
Anup explains the distinction between momentum and fundamental investing approaches. While fundamental analysis focuses on company-specific factors like financial health and competitive advantages, momentum investing relies on identifying stocks that have been performing well relative to the market and expecting that trend to continue. This contrast highlights how momentum investing simplifies the investment process by prioritizing recent price trends over underlying company fundamentals.
Behavioral and Analytical Aspects of Momentum Investing
The podcast delves into the behavioral and analytical aspects of momentum investing. It emphasizes that momentum strategies are more driven by behavioral factors than intricate analytical models. By capitalizing on market trends and investor behavior, momentum investing aims to ride the wave of stocks with upward momentum, leveraging the inherent human tendency to follow crowd behavior for investment decisions.
Challenges and Lessons Learned in Implementing Momentum Strategy
Anup shares insights on the challenges and lessons learned from implementing the momentum strategy. He highlights the importance of humility in investing, acknowledging that momentum strategies are wrong about half the time. Additionally, Anup discusses the necessity of staying invested despite periods of underperformance, stressing that timing and predicting market movements are challenging, and consistent investment is key to long-term success in momentum investing.
In this comprehensive discussion, Fund Manager and Head of Research Anoop Vijaykumar and Shray Chandra distil the key lessons from over five years of managing the Capitalmind Adaptive Momentum portfolio.
Get a concise overview of the principles of momentum investing driving the portfolio’s success.
Learn from our real-world lessons on why momentum investing works for long-term wealth creation
00:36 Introduction
01:54 Momentum strategy in the last 5 years
03:30 Difference between the fundamental and quantitive styles
08:00 Random correlations when backtesting a quantitive strategy
10:30 Capitalmind Adaptive Momentum strategy
15:05 Why does momentum investing work?
18:54 Lessons learned from 5 years of managing momentum strategy
26:00 Will momentum stop working
29:30 How can we get more out of the momentum strategy?
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