Mutual Fund Analysis - Parag Parikh Flexicap Fund

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What is this fund?

Parag Parikh Flexi Cap Fund (PPFAS Flexi Cap) is a SEBI-categorised flexi cap fund, meaning it can invest across large, mid, and small cap Indian companies with no mandatory minimum in any single category.

But here is what makes it genuinely unusual: it also invests 25-35% of its corpus in international equities, primarily high-quality US-listed global businesses. This is built into the fund's DNA from inception, not an afterthought.

In simple terms: one fund, two markets. Indian businesses and global businesses in a single portfolio. For most Indian investors who are 90%+ India-only, this fund solves a diversification problem they didn't know they had.

Quick facts

Scheme name	Parag Parikh Flexi Cap Fund (formerly Parag Parikh Long Term Equity Fund)
AMC	PPFAS Asset Management Pvt. Ltd.
Launched	24 May 2013
Benchmark	Nifty 500 TRI
AUM	~₹1.4 lakh crore (as of July 31, 2026) - India's largest actively managed equity scheme
Expense ratio (Direct)	0.68

1. Who is the fund manager?

PPFCF is run by a team rather than a single star manager:

Rajeev Thakkar - CIO (Equity) and Director at PPFAS AMC, and the fund's lead manager since launch in 2013.
Rukun Tarachandani - Executive Vice President & Fund Manager - Equity, manages the domestic equity sleeve alongside Thakkar.
Raunak Onkar - Fund manager dedicated to the foreign investment component.
Raj Mehta - Executive Vice President & Fund Manager - Equity
Mansi Kariya -Associate Vice President & Fund Manager- Debt, handles the fixed-income/debt sleeve.
Tejas Soman - Chief Investment Officer - Debt
and Aishwarya Dhar - Senior Manager & Fund Manager- Debt

2. What is their track record - How often has it beaten its Benchmark?

We evaluate funds on rolling returns rather than point-to-point performance.

	3 Years Rolling Return	5 Years Rolling Return	10 Years Rolling Return
Parag Parikh Flexi Cap Fund - Reg - Growth	18.27%	18.35%	18.14%
AMFI Tier I Benchmark Index - Nifty 500 TRI	14.91%	14.61%	14.77%

- Returns are calculated since inception with daily rolling frequency for the 3, 5 and 10 years period. Data as of July 31, 2026. Past performance is not an indicator of future returns.

3. What is their stated investment process?

The strategy involves deploying capital across a diversified mix of domestic stocks, international equities, and fixed-income assets.

01 Identifying Investments

Review public filings
Periodic quantitative screens
Tracking known businesses & industries
Peer review of businesses

02 Fundamental Research

Industry Analysis
Competitive Analysis of business v/s Peers
Review historical financial & operation

03 Valuation Study

Historical normal valuation
Peer comparison
Internal estimates & range of intrinsic value

04 Portfolio Construction

Buy/Sell Discipline: Opportunistic
Security Risk Control: Not more than 10% of portfolio in a single security (as per SEBI Guidelines)
Follow portfolio guidelines

4. Do current holdings reflect that process?

Largely yes, with a few nuances worth highlighting.

Top holdings (as of Aug 18, 2026):

HDFC Bank - 8.33%

Power Grid Corporation - 6.23%

ITC - 6.07%

ICICI Bank - 5.52%

Coal India - 5.53%

Sector mix: Financials (31.74%), Technology(27.08%), Consumer Discretionary (11.26%), Energy & Utilities (9.47%), among others.

5. What stands out in the India portfolio:

ITC, Coal India, Bajaj Holdings , these are not the glamorous names. They are often unloved, often out-of-favour, often boring. PPFAS holds them because they are cheap relative to their intrinsic worth and generate strong cash flows. This is value investing in practice, buying what others avoid because the price is right.

What stands out in the international portfolio:

Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft. These are not random global diversification picks. Strong moats, global scale, dollar-denominated earnings. These are the businesses that don't exist in the Indian market.

6. Who this Fund is right for

✅ Investors with a 7+ year horizon who want built-in global diversification without managing separate international funds

✅ First-time international equity investors who want one fund that does the work

✅ Long-term wealth builders who understand that short-term underperformance vs domestic peers is the price of geographic diversification

✅ Investors who value philosophy consistency and management continuity over flashy recent performance

✅ Moderate-to-aggressive risk investors with a genuine long-term commitment

Who should avoid it or size it carefully

❌ Short-term investors under 5 years; the fund's philosophy requires patient capital

❌ Those seeking high small cap or mid cap tilt, this is a large-cap-leaning, quality-oriented portfolio

Sources used for this edition

PPFAS AMC fact sheets; World PE ratio, Screener, Groww, MSCI. Figures were pulled from public sources across July–August 2026. Always cross-check against the current PPFAS factsheet (amc.ppfas.com) before acting on anything here.

Published for educational purposes only. This is not investment advice, not a research report under SEBI's RA regulations, and contains no buy/sell/hold recommendation. These are insights on a publicly available mutual fund, meant to help readers to understand the fund relevance to their portfolio. Data as of August 18, 2026 unless dated otherwise, always verify against the latest PPFAS factsheet before relying on any number here.

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