{"id":1410,"date":"2026-01-08T08:41:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T08:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cedcapital.in\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2026-01-08T08:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T08:41:19","slug":"letter-to-investors-dec25-extracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cedcapital.in\/?p=1410","title":{"rendered":"Letter to Investors &#8211; Dec&#8217;25 &#8211; Extracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: #dcdcdc; height: 216px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 216px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 100%; height: 216px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>EXECUTIVE SUMMARY<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Trailing twelve months\u2019 earnings of underlying portfolio companies grew by <strong>19%<\/strong>. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">NAV grew by <strong>25.7% YTD<\/strong> with 81% funds invested in equity positions. Balance 19% is parked in liquid\/ arbitrage funds.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Changes: We initiated a new position, added to one position and trimmed another position<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Eight common patterns from winners of last 13 years.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Thinking in decades instead of quarters.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">What if AI takes over investing?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Stance: Neutral<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Dear Fellow Investors,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Learnings from winners of last 13 years<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">In the last 13 years, we have had some positions that have been up 10x-40x from initial purchase. Without ignoring the role of <em>luck<\/em> and avoiding the <em>self-congratulatory trap<\/em>, we try to objectively look back and distil <strong>eight common and combined patterns<\/strong>. Our hope is that internalizing these lessons will make us more sensitive to the causes and effects of winning, allowing us to spot and size ideas better in the future. Here is what we found:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Competitive advantage:<\/strong> All these companies held a dominant position in their industry\u2014some were monopolies or leaders in duopolies\/ oligopolies. This dominance stemmed from durable &#8220;moats&#8221; that made it difficult for competitors to enter\/ earn similar profits. These included, either singly or severally, regulatory licenses, low-cost structures, network effects, customer trust, prudent underwriting culture, long qualification cycles or switching costs. While <strong>high return on capital<\/strong> was a lagging indicator of their advantage, its sustainability was what helped them succeed.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Large opportunity:<\/strong> Competitive advantage without growth is less valuable. Most of these companies served under\u2011penetrated, hard\u2011to\u2011substitute products or services, which gave them a long runway for healthy growth. Their competitive advantage allowed them to capture this growth profitably. Sources of runway included formalisation, rising equity participation, global chemical outsourcing, premiumisation etc. Equally, we have seen that a very large opportunity without a defendable advantage often ends in price wars or over\u2011building and is often not as successful.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Low capital intensity and\/or attractive reinvestment opportunity:<\/strong> Our best performers required minimal capital to grow (asset-light) or could reinvest retained earnings at healthy rates of return. In the asset-light models, excess cash was either returned to shareholders or, in the case of regulated entities, retained to provide regulatory stability. Others were more capital intensive, but had the ability to reinvest retained earnings at attractive, sometimes rising, returns on capital.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Cheap\/ Reasonable valuations:<\/strong> Stock prices of many of these companies fell over 40% multiple times in last 13 years. We were worried often. But on further thinking, we realised that while the price was down, the intrinsic value wasn\u2019t down as much. This allowed us to initiate the position, stay invested, or add further. The following three were the main reasons why these strong companies were available cheaply:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: circle;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><em>Temporary hardship:<\/em> Technology setbacks, regulatory overhangs, credit tightening, cyclical downturns, demonetisation, IL&amp;FS crisis, Covid\u201119 and similar events created genuine short\u2011term pain for companies, sectors or the entire market. When familiarity\/ deeper work suggested that the market was treating a temporary issue as permanent, these periods became fertile ground to accumulate strong businesses at attractive prices.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: circle;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><em>Size:<\/em> Smaller companies tend to experience higher volatility. In 2018 (IL&amp;FS) and 2020 (Covid-19) correction, smaller companies fell more than larger ones, occasionally offering very attractive entry points. While the small-cap space is more crowded today, their low liquidity may create sharp falls in future. Our small size will be useful.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: circle;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><em>Misunderstanding:<\/em> In some cases, the companies faced misunderstanding on entry of competitor or competing products (example &#8211; mutual funds or diagnostics). In other cases, accounting changes like lease accounting understated accounting profits in comparison to economic profits.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Management execution:<\/strong> The management teams of our winners demonstrated key traits: efficiency, focus (no diworsification), handling crisis, conservative with debt, prudent capital allocation, clean accounting, fair treatment of minority shareholders etc. This applied equally to founder-led and professional management teams.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Not selling purely on moderate over valuation: <\/strong>We learnt to let winners run as long as fundamentals remain intact, tolerating moderate over valuation. If prices can irrationally fall 40-50%, they can also rise far beyond reasonable valuations especially when a company is \u2018discovered\u2019 by the market. In such positions, it is better to wait for leading indicators\u2014unit economics, balance sheet quality, regulatory risk, capital allocation\u2013 to worsen before taking the trim\/sell decision.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"7\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Allocation:<\/strong> In some cases, we regret that our position size was too small to matter. In others, where we had a more familiarity and deeper conviction, we sized the position meaningfully enough to move the needle. Sizing is not a function of potential upside, but of the conviction that we cannot lose money.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"8\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Luck:<\/strong> Luck has played a real role. Some companies found themselves in the right place at the right time or benefited from structural tailwinds that were stronger than we anticipated: post\u2011Covid equity participation, China+1 in chemicals, regulatory shifts such as RBI\u2019s stance on unsecured lending, or favourable changes in consumer behaviour. Often market also goes through bullish phases and ascribes higher multiples (like currently). Not every success should be attributed to skill. When most of the above seven factors fall in line, chance of good luck rises. Recognising the impact of good luck and not getting carried away is necessary to elongate its run.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">It is rare for all the above forces aligning for a company. Further, it is difficult to identify these forces as they play out in real time. Also, they can keep on changing. Moats erode, growth falters, management makes mistakes or temporary hardships turn out to be permanent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">A portfolio of companies having most of these factors present (including reasonably priced incorporating margin of safety) and diversified among their exposures increases our odds of success. This requires us to raise the bar for investment worthy candidates and wait till these factors align.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">When looking at today\u2019s markets, the key missing ingredient is price. There are only some pockets where, either due to temporary hardships or misunderstanding, price remain reasonable. We continue to remain selective and patient. <strong>STANCE: NEUTRAL<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; text-decoration-line: underline;\">A. PERFORMANCE<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A1. Statutory PMS Performance Disclosure<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 384px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"background-color: #d9d4d4;\">\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; height: 28px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Year Ended<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3334%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" colspan=\"2\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">CED Long Term Focused Value (PMS)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3334%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\" colspan=\"2\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BSE 500 TRI (Benchmark)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Difference<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background-color: #d9d4d4;\">\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; height: 28px;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Return<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Avg. Cash Eq. Bal.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Return<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Trailing P\/E<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; height: 28px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">YTD FY26<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">25.7%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">19.9%<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">12.6%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">25.2x<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">+13.1%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">FY 2025<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">10.3%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #999999;\">21.0%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">6.0%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #999999;\">23.4x<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">+4.3%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">FY 2024<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">29.2%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #999999;\">26.1%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">40.2%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #999999;\">26.2x<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">-11.0%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">FY 2023<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">-4.3%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #999999;\">30.0%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">-0.9%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #999999;\">22.3x<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">-3.4%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">FY 2022<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">14.9%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #999999;\">38.5%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">22.3%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #999999;\">25.0x<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">-7.4%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">FY 2021<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">48.5%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #999999;\">29.0%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">78.6%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #999999;\">38.0x<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">-30.1%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">FY 2020*<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">-9.5%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #999999;\">23.0%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">-23.4%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #999999;\">18.3x<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">+13.9%<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; height: 28px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Since Inception(6Y)<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">16.3%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">27.3%<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">17.1%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; text-align: center; height: 28px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">-0.8%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 104px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; height: 104px;\" colspan=\"6\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>*From Jul 24, 2019; &#8216;Since inception&#8217; performance is annualised; Note: As required by SEBI, the returns are calculated on time weighted average (NAV) basis. The returns are NET OF ALL EXPENSES AND FEES. The returns pertain to ENTIRE portfolio of our one and only strategy. Individual investor returns may vary from above owing to different investment dates. Annual returns are audited but not verified by SEBI.<\/em><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Quarters Vs Decades <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">In a multi-decade investing journey, what ultimately matters is the rate of long-term compounding, not the sequence of short-term returns. A portfolio that earns modest returns in its early years but compounds well later can equal\u2014or even outperform\u2014one where the sequence is reversed. The key risk to avoid is a large permanent loss, because returns are multiplicative: even a very large number, when multiplied by zero, remains zero.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">While regulations require us to report performance every quarter, our investment process is not designed to optimise for short-term outcomes. In the short run, prices can fluctuate for reasons unrelated to business fundamentals. Celebrating or lamenting quarterly for over-or-under performance often distracts from what truly matters: focus on understanding the long-term future economics of businesses, maintaining a watchlist of high-quality companies, and investing in them only when prices offer a reasonable margin of safety. When such conditions are absent, patience is a deliberate choice. We believe this discipline is what delivers strong absolute returns over decades, irrespective of quarterly lag.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Our responsibility is to adhere to this process consistently and to report outcomes transparently every quarter. Since investing is inherently about the future, even well-researched decisions can prove wrong or premature. When that happens, it is equally our responsibility to communicate it openly. The above performance table and this letter should be viewed with this context in mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><u>A2. Underlying business performance<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 288px; width: 91.6571%; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: #dcdcdc;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 23px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Past Twelve Months<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 23px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Earnings per unit (EPU)<sup>2<\/sup><\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25.2011%; height: 23px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>FY 2026 EPU (expected) <\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 23px;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 23px; text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25.2011%; height: 23px; text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 26px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 26px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Sep 2025<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 26px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>10.6<sup>1<\/sup><\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25.2011%; height: 26px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>10.2-11.0<sup>3<\/sup><\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 23px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Jun 2025 (Previous Quarter)<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 23px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">10.0<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25.2011%; height: 23px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">10.0-10.8<sup>3<\/sup><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 23px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Sep 2024 (Previous Year)<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 23px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">8.9<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25.2011%; height: 23px; text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 23px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Annual Change<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 23px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">19.1%<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25.2011%; height: 23px; text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 23px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">CAGR since inception (Jun 2019)<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 23px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">13.5%<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25.2011%; height: 23px; text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 102px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 91.8677%; height: 100px;\" colspan=\"3\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><sup>1 <\/sup>Last four quarters ending Sep 2025. Results of Dec quarter are declared by Feb only. <sup>2<\/sup> EPU = Total normalised earnings accruing to the aggregate portfolio divided by units outstanding. <sup>3 <\/sup>Please note: the forward earnings per unit (EPU) are conservative estimates of our expectation of future earnings of underlying companies. In past we have been wrong \u2013 often by wide margin \u2013 in our estimates and there is a risk that we are wrong about the forward EPU reported to you above.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Trailing Earnings:<\/strong> Last twelve months earnings of the underlying portfolio companies attributable to us (we call it Earnings Per Unit) grew by 19.1% over the previous period. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>1-Yr Forward Earnings:<\/strong> After better-than-expected earnings outcome in the recent quarter, we are <strong>upgrading<\/strong> our expectation-range of FY 26 Earnings per Unit slightly from Rs 10-10.8 to Rs 10.2-11.0.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><u>A3. Underlying portfolio parameters<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 90.8587%; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: #dcdcdc; height: 221px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 58px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; height: 58px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dec 2025<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 12.0403%; text-align: right; height: 58px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Trailing P\/E<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 11.3655%; text-align: right; height: 58px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Forward P\/E<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 11.7429%; text-align: right; height: 58px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Portfolio RoIC<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 17.5314%; text-align: right; height: 58px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Portfolio Turnover<sup>1<\/sup><\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 55px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; height: 55px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">CED LTFV (PMS)<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 12.0403%; text-align: right; height: 55px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">24.9x<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 11.3655%; text-align: right; height: 55px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">24.1x-25.9x<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 11.7429%; text-align: right; height: 55px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">39.0%<sup>3<\/sup><\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 17.5314%; text-align: right; height: 55px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">6.3%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 30px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 16.6667%; height: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BSE 500<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 12.0403%; text-align: right; height: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">25.2x<sup>2<\/sup><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 11.3655%; text-align: right; height: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 11.7429%; text-align: right; height: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">17.4%<sup>2<\/sup><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 17.5314%; text-align: right; height: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 48px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 69.3468%; height: 48px;\" colspan=\"5\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><em style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/em><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"> \u2018sale of equity shares\u2019 divided by \u2018average portfolio value\u2019 during the year to date period. <\/span><sup>2<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Source: Asia Index. <sup>3<\/sup>Portfolio Return on Invested Capital (RoIC) is on core equity positions. For BSE 500 index we share the RoE (Return on Equity)<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">B. DETAILS ON PERFORMANCE<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">B1. MISTAKES AND LEARNINGS<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">We did not discover any new mistakes this quarter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">B2. MAJOR PORTFOLIO CHANGES<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Bought:<\/strong> We introduce a <strong>new<\/strong> <strong>position<\/strong> <strong>.<\/strong> We also added further to an existing position.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Sold:<\/strong> We trimmed a position especially in older accounts where the weight had run up due to rise in the share price and moderation in leading fundamental indicators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>B4. FLOWS AND SENTIMENTS<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Flows and sentiments continue to remain <strong>strong<\/strong> in Indian equity markets leading to high valuations in most of the pockets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Monthly <strong>retail inflows into Indian mutual funds<\/strong> remain positive for last 43 months negating selling from <strong>foreign investors<\/strong> in secondary markets and <strong>insiders<\/strong> (promoters and private equity investors) in primary markets (IPOs, QIPs, Preferential allotments, rights etc).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Global flows have moved away from India to <strong>other Asian markets<\/strong> such as South Korea, Japan and China due to (a) cheaper valuations and (2) exposure to artificial intelligence (AI), electric vehicles (EV) and batteries. The valuations of Indian markets still remain high so it will be difficult to predict when will relative underperformance of India reverse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>AI related companies in the US<\/strong> continue to drive most of the US market returns and GDP growth. There are polarising views about whether we are in AI capex\/ share price bubble. We have no special insight to add to the matter. Through one position we have exposure to this theme at valuations much cheaper than US. If AI continues to ride along, the markets may remain stable but not run away (good news mostly priced in). But if AI turns out to be a bubble, not just US markets but Indian markets will also feel the heat. We have some exposure to so called anti-AI themes (India as a whole is also being called anti-AI, but we don\u2019t know) but cannot be assured that they will indeed work. So being partly in cash\/ cash equivalent is the simplest way to profit from AI bubble pop, if any.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">C. OTHER THOUGHTS<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Imagining a world where AI runs public-market investing<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Humans bring emotion to investing \u2014 greed, fear, envy, FOMO \u2014 while celebrated investors preach machine-like rationality. High-frequency and algorithmic trading already automate parts of that ideal. Let\u2019s run a thought experiment: suppose AI agents fully take over investing in public (listed) markets (we\u2019ll exclude private and venture capital). What would need to be true for this to work well \u2014 and what might follow?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Prerequisites:<\/strong> For an AI takeover to function without catastrophic failure, three structural pillars are required:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><em>Agentic Diversity<\/em> \u2013 Efficient price discovery depends on participants with different goals and time-horizons. Some AI agents should be momentum-driven, others value-oriented, some income-focused, some liquidity providers, etc. Without heterogeneous objectives, markets risk becoming inefficient and illiquid.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><em>Regulatory guardrails<\/em>\u2013 Rules must limit excessive concentration and systemic risk: sectoral limits, leverage and derivatives caps, circuit breakers, caps on AUM or trade volume for any single algorithmic entity, and controls to prevent regulatory arbitrage across jurisdictions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><em>Human in the loop<\/em> \u2013 Total autonomy is dangerous. We need accountability mechanisms and &#8220;kill switches&#8221; for anomalies. Furthermore, decisions must be explainable\u2014regulators need to distinguish between genuine asset repricing and a &#8220;hallucination&#8221; in the model&#8217;s logic.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Consequences:<\/strong> If AI agents are allowed to autonomously manage investing, there may be both good and bad outcomes:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">\u00a0 Positive consequences:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><em>More efficiency, death of alpha<\/em> \u2013 AI agents will be able to search, scrape, summarise and analyse more data faster and more accurately than the best human. Asset prices will be instantly discount events in real time. Stock returns will be restricted to normal profits and there may be no one who could beat the market (no alpha).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><em>Better Capital Allocation<\/em> \u2013 Human-led markets are prone to bubbles, allocating capital to unworthy projects during euphoria and starving good businesses during busts. A rational AI market could theoretically smoothen these cycles, allocating capital strictly based on merit and expected returns on capital.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">\u00a0 Negative consequences:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><em>Game theory<\/em> \u2013Each AI agent will try to optimise the goals set for it within the constraints ignoring consequences. An AI agent with a long position in company X may hire agents to harm competitors of company X. In another case, there can be fake sell orders by value agent that leads momentum agents to keep selling.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><em>Threat to diversity<\/em>\u2013If one style outperforms, capital and computing power may move to that style. As marginal buyer\/ seller sets the price \u2013stronger styles will determine prices. For example, if momentum AI outperforms and get stronger it may lead to rising prices, as the selling by outnumbered value may not counter them.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><em>Insider Access<\/em>: In a world where public data is perfectly priced, the only remaining edge is illegal. This creates a massive incentive for AI to seek non-public\/insider information, raising complex compliance and privacy challenges<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><em>Black swan event:<\/em> AI models are trained on past data. In case of a black swan event (new crisis) never seen in the training data (eg: global cyber-attack or new pandemic) AI models may freeze.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Regardless of whether markets ever become fully AI-driven, Investors cannot afford to treat AI as a distant risk or a passing tool. Staying competitive will require continuously understanding how AI is reshaping information flow, price discovery, and investor behaviour\u2014and systematically integrating it into research, monitoring, and decision-making processes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">For maintaining market integrity, however, AI should be used to <strong>augment human judgment and not replace it.<\/strong> AI can be used for automating data gathering, accelerating analysis, stress-testing assumptions, and flagging anomalies, while humans retain responsibility for context, ethics, and capital allocation. In a world where information advantages compress rapidly, the edge will not come from resisting AI, but from learning to <strong>work alongside it<\/strong> better than others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As always, gratitude for your trust and patience. Kindly do share your thoughts, if any. Your feedback helps us improve our services to you!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kind regards<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sumit Sarda<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Partner and Portfolio Manager<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Disclaimer: Compound Everyday Capital Management LLP is SEBI registered Portfolio Manager with registration number INP 000006633. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. All information provided herein is for informational purposes only and should not be deemed as a recommendation to buy or sell securities. This transmission is confidential and may not be redistributed without the express written consent of Compound Everyday Capital Management LLP and does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to purchase any security or investment product. Reference to an index does not imply that the firm will achieve returns, volatility, or other results similar to the index.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Trailing twelve months\u2019 earnings of underlying portfolio companies grew by 19%. NAV grew by 25.7% YTD with 81% funds invested in equity positions. Balance 19% is parked in liquid\/ arbitrage funds. 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