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Ambit Good & Clean Smallcap Fund (Emerging

Giants)

Portfolio Management Services

August 2019

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Ambit Asset Management: An Overview

Investment offerings focusing on the Quality

o Companies with robust capital allocation track record and high quality of financial metrics

o High quality of their accounts and corporate governance.

o While the objective is to generate returns, the even bigger goal is to better manage drawdowns

Multiple products as per the investment horizon of the investor

Good & Clean India Fund Coffee Can PMS Ambit Good & Clean Smallcap Fund

(Emerging Giants)

Primarily Mid-cap stocks

Investment Horizon: 3-5 years

Cross cyclical winners with high ROE, high

reinvestment companies

Primarily Large-cap stocks

Investment Horizon: 8-10 years

Great companies with proven track record of

high ROE, high reinvestment companies

Primarily Small-cap stocks

Investment Horizon: 5-6 years

Finding the next Coffee Can companies

Ambit’s Investment Philosophy

Process-Driven Approach

o Highly qualified team of MBA’s, CA’s & CFA’s with deep-dive equity research experience & specializations across various sectors.

o 5-member highly experienced & distinguished Investment Committee in place to review all investment decisions.

o Full-fledged support of Ambit Group with over 230+ experienced employees spread across investment banking, institutional equities,

equity capital markets, private equity, private wealth, among others.

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Ambit’s Emerging Giants: Philosophy of selecting the right companies

Characteristics of

Portfolio company

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2 Strong Corporate Governance

• Well diversified and respected Board

• Minority friendly

• Dividend Policy

• Timely and robust disclosures on corporate

governance issues

3 Market Leaders

• Most companies in our portfolio companies

dominate their market niche/ geographies

• Relentless focus on specific product/

service, allowing them to excel in their circle

of competence

5 Power of compounding

• Concentrated portfolio with 15-20 stocks and

intended churn of less than 2-3 stock per

year on average

• This allows the portfolio to benefit from

Power of Compounding

1 Consistent Track Record

• Delivers consistent growth while

maintaining superior return ratios

• High quality entrepreneur and management

team

• Operates in a niche / or high opportunity

segment maintaining its competitive

advantages

4 Clean Accounting

• Use our proprietary forensic accounting

framework ( to filter out firms with suspect

financials)

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Portfolio Composition & Characteristics

Comparison with

Indexes

Net Debt/Equity P/E Past 5Y Growth RoE

FY18 FY19 FY20E Revenue PAT Current

Emerging Giants (-0.1x) 25x 18x 10% 19% 20%

BSE Smallcap 1.6x 21x 16x 4% 13%* 1.3%

Nifty 1.2x 23x 18x 8% 5% 12%

Source: Bloomberg, Company, Ambit Capital Research; Index statistics as per Bloomberg; All Portfolio statistics are weighted average except for Debt/equity; Blended forwards are based on Ambit estimates, while Index estimates are based on Bloom

estimates; * PAT growth for BSE Small Cap is based on positive earnings;

Stellar track records of capital allocation in terms of RoE

Low debt with the median portfolio company cash positive

Median market cap of the portfolio is ~Rs1,700 cr.

Growth potential above the comparable index

Reasonable valuations for quality stocks

Consumer Discretionary

24%

Chemicals 13%

Industrials 13%

Financials 12%

Homebuilding

12%

Auto & Auto Components

8%

Consumer Durable

6%

Cash 12%

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Why Small caps?

The BSE500 experiences heavy annual churn: On average, as much as 30% of the BSE 500

constituents get churned over a 5 year period*

Moreover, the bulk of the outperformance for BSE500 entrants occurs prior to their entry in the

index!

Source: Bloomberg, Ace Equity, Ambit Capital Research. Relative returns (to BSE 500) are medians CAGR of stocks

that have been included in the BSE 500. For prior returns, returns are measured until 1 quarter preceding the quarter

of entry .

Period of BSE500 constituent data analyzed – 2002-2018.Only firms with both pre and & post inclusion pricing data

are considered.

*Annual 5 Year churn over 2002-2013 (closing period ends in 2018)

Relative performance of BSE500 inclusions pre and post inclusion

Source: Bloomberg, Ace Equity, Ambit Capital Research. Ending Period June 30, 2018.

Method: We calculate returns by assuming a purchase of three baskets of stocks – Top 50 (largest 50 stocks by market-cap),

Top 500 (largest 500 stocks by market-cap) and Small-caps (501-1500 ranked stocks by market-cap). Stocks are rebalanced

annually each July end as per the bucket criteria over July’2003-June’2018. Equal amounts are assumed to be allocated to

each stock. Dividends received are reinvested; Transaction costs assumed: 3% for Small-caps; 1% for Top500 and 0.5% for

Top50;

Small caps have outperformed their larger peers historically in India

41.2%

49.5%

75.2%

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Year -3 Year-2 Year -1 Year +1 Year+2 Year +3

Median CAGR of BSE 500 Inclusions (Relative to BSE 500)

14.9%

7.8%

13.6%

18.2%

9.7%

20.7% 20.1%

10.3%

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Top50 Top 500 Small-Cap (501-1500)

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Price discovery is inefficient in small caps

Smallcaps are largely undiscovered with low analyst coverage and lower liquidity resulting in valuation disconnect with fundamentals

Size of Bubble signifies FY2018 P/E Ratio (x)

ANR refers to No. of analyst covering a particular stock

Source: Bloomberg, Ambit Capital Research.

Zee entertainment

ANR:38; P/E 35x

Jubilant Foodworks

ANR 32; P/E 93x

Garware Wall Ropes

ANR: 1; P/E: 25x

TV Today Network

ANR: 5; P/E 21x

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Panasonic Carbon

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Under-owned with low Institutional ownership

Large-Caps, with an Institutional ownership of ~55% are over-owned by Mutual

Funds & FIIs vs. ~10% in case of Small-caps

Un-discovered with low analyst coverage:

On average only 1 analyst cover a small-cap stock vs. 37 analyst coverage for

large-caps

Low Liquidity is a challenge

Daily Trade Volume of a Large-Cap company is Rs 300 Cr. whereas for small-

cap its just Rs 1.3 Cr.

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Good & Clean Smallcap Fund

(Emerging Giants)

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The Ambit framework for small-cap investing

Cash generation

• Does sales growth translate into cash?

~1300 stocks

Ambit’s Forensic Accounting Screen

1. Unit Economics

2. Scale

3. Sustainability

4. Feedback Loops

Viability of underlying business model

• Does the company generate enough funds to sustain the

business?

Growth runway

• How scalable are the company’s operations?

Virtuous cycle effect

• Is greater scale leading to greater asset efficiency?

Profitability per unit

• Do the unit economics make sense?

Small-cap Universe

Stocks with a Market Cap between INR1-40bn

Eliminating companies with dubious accounting practices

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Investment Process - Finding needles in the haystack

Filtering Process

1. Ambit’s Forensic Accounting Screen: Eliminating ‘Zone of Darkness’

candidates.

2. 50th Percentile Hurdle on each of the 5 parameters: Selecting companies well

rounded in each parameter.

3. Total Percentile Rank>80%: An additional filter to make sure that only the

best are selected.

4. RoCE>12%: Eliminating companies struggling to cover their cost of capital.

5. Net Debt-Equity Ratio <1.5x: Eliminating debt-laden companies.

50%+ on each Parameter

80th Percentile Overall

Filters for RoCE +

Debt ratios

Channel checks & .

management

meets

15 -17

stocks

Small-cap Universe

Stocks with a Market Cap between INR1-40bn

Ambit G&C Smallcap

(Emerging Giants)

Bottom-up stock research

Industry analysis

Ambit’s Forensic Accounting Screen

Eliminating companies with dubious accounting practices

Constant monitoring & review

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Ambit’s Forensic Accounting Framework

Within sub-BSE500 firms, accounting quality drives investment performance Ambit’s forensic accounting framework helps steer clear of Small-caps with

dubious financials

Methodology

We look at six years of consolidated financials for the BSE500 universe of firms.

We first rank stocks on each of the 11 ratios individually (outlined in the table on the left) within a sector.

These ranks are then cumulated across parameters to give a final pecking order on accounting quality for stocks

within each sector

Accounting checks

P&L Mis-statement

• Abysmally low CFO/EBITDA ratio over a long run

• High volatility in Depreciation Rates

• Boasting earning through lower debtor provisioning

B/S Mis-statement

• Low Cash yield implying balance sheet misstatement

• Writing-off losses directly through balance sheet

• High contingent liability

Pilferage Checks

• High Miscellaneous expenses

• Unsubstantiated capex or delay in plant commissioning

• Historically generating negative free cash flows

• Increasing advances to related party

Auditor Quality

• High auditor remuneration

-10%

-5%

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10%

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20%

25%

D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7 D8 D9 D10

Median Share performan

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Dec’10-De

c’16

Accounting Score based deciles

The bottom three deciles i.e. the worst

quality stocks on accounting quality, have

underperformed

Source: Bloomberg, Ambit Capital research; Note: This chart plots the median share price performance of sub-BSE500 firms with

median accounting scores for deciles constructed only on the basis of accounting quality.

Period: Dec’10-Dec’16

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Performance (2013-19) Net Returns*

(CAGR)

Standard

Deviation

Sharpe

Ratio

Maximum

Drawdown

Emerging Giants 23.1% 21% 0.76 -23%

BSE Smallcap 8.3% 21% 0.06 -34%

BSE 500 10.3% 14% 0.23 -20%

Nifty 10.2% 14% 0.23 -22%

Backtest Results, Sharpe Ratio and Drawdown

Method: Stocks are rebalanced December-end on an annual basis. Equal amounts are assumed to be allocated to each stock. Stocks are selected as per the model framework and filters. Results are calculated on a

CAGR basis. Final Period ends on July’ 31 2019.

Returns include dividends reinvested and are net of assumed transaction costs (3% for Portfolio & BSE Smallcap, 1% for the BSE500, and 0.5% for the NIFTY).

Source: Bloomberg, Ace Equity, Ambit Capital Research. *Median Returns are for the portfolio only. All returns are net of assumed transaction costs and include reinvested dividends.

In 10 years, Rs. 1cr invested with

G&C portfolio would have become

8cr vs. 2.2cr with BSE Smallcap

13%

138%

37%

2%

41%

-8%

-14% -10%

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6% 2%

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2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Annual Returns 2013-2019

Emerging Giants BSE Smallcap BSE 500 Nifty

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Live portfolio performance

Note: Performance post all fees and charges; Portfolio inception date is Dec 1, 2017; Returns as of July 31, 2019;

-10.0%

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Asset Management Team

• Sushant Bhansali is the CEO of Asset Management business and a member of Ambit’s

Executive Committee. He has been with the firm for more than 11 years with a

total industry experience of 18 years.

• Prior to this, he was heading the Principal Investment business where he cut his teeth

investing in listed equities from Ambit’s Balance Sheet. During the six year period the

team delivered superlative returns investing primarily in small and mid cap listed Indian

companies surpassing benchmark returns by a mile. The team followed a highly

concentrated portfolio strategy investing in high conviction ideas on an opportunistic

basis. Sushant began his career at Ambit with the Group CEOs office where he

spent close to five years working on various transactions advising clients on M&A and

capital raise. He also participated in development of various new business verticals, hiring

teams, joint ventures, leadership initiatives and maiden private equity capital raise for the

firm. Before joining Ambit he worked with global firms such as MSCI Inc and

PricewaterhouseCoopers for close to six years.

• Sushant is a rank holder qualified Chartered Accountant and a PGD in Business

Management from Indian School of Business(ISB).

SUSHANT BHANSALI

CEO – Asset Management

AISHVARYA DADHEECH, CFA

Fund Manger – Asset Management

• With over 12 years of experience in Indian equities, Aishvarya has been

managing Ambit Group's proprietory book for the last 2 years. He has a rich

experience of fund management under Good & Clean Framework

• Prior to that he was with Reliance Life Insurance as Equity Fund manager

managing their investments for almost 7 years. Being in Insurance his outlook

was always long term and embedded with quality. There he had consistently

outperformed the benchmark index and achieved internal targets. Prior to that he

was with Crisil as a Equity and Credit Research Analyst for over 3 years

• He is a qualified Chartered Accountant (India, 2009) and MBA Finance.

Aishvarya is also a CFA charter holder from CFA Institute, USA. He holds a

bachelor degree in Accounting (Honors) from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata

MANISH JAIN

Fund Manager - Asset Management

• Manish over 15 years of experience in deep dive equity research

• He has worked with Nomura for 10 years as lead analyst covering FMCG, electrical

durable & retail Sectors. He was amongst the best performing analyst in the

research team with consistently strong votes from ADIA, Capital World (Ranked No

1 for four years in running), Capital International (for strong corporate access), FIL,

FMR, Wellington, William Blair, Mirae, UBS, Morgan Stanley, TIAA CREF, Putnam,

GSAM, Allianz, Alliance Bernstein, Lion Global, ICICI MF, ICICI Life, SBI MF, Birla

MF, DSP, Franklin Templeton, amongst others

• He holds an MBA in Finance

SIDDHARTHA RASTOGI

Managing Director – Asset Management

• Siddhartha Rastogi is Managing Director with AMBIT Asset Management. He has 2

decades of Financial Services experience and last ~10 years with Ambit. Siddhartha

was the founding member of IIFL Wealth & prior to that was Branch Head of HSBC

Peddar Road Branch, biggest Wealth Branch in the Country. Siddhartha has also

worked with Citibank & UTI bank in Wealth Management & merchant banking roles.

• He is an Honors Graduate in Commerce from Delhi University, Company Secretary

(Intermediate) and Post Graduate in Finance & strategy from Narsee Monjee

Management Institute, Mumbai.

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Construct & structure

Fund Type SEBI Registered PMS

Fund Tenure Open Ended

Structure Discretionary PMS

Minimum investment INR 25 lacs

Stock selection Investible universe is stocks that perform well on the two frameworks noted earlier. A further subjective assessment then leads to a

more concentrated stock portfolio

Number of stocks < 20

25% per sector, 10% per stock

All cap with BSE Smallcap as the benchmark

Time horizon and turnover The investment horizon is 1-3 years and longer; turnover therefore should not exceed 30-35% in a year

Cash calls Not to take aggressive cash calls; this is keeping in mind the longer term investment horizon of the fund and is suitable from a taxation

standpoint

Construct & Structure

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Appendix

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R² = 0.0299

-80%

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0x 5x 10x 15x 20x 25x 30x 35x 40x 45x 50x

FY13 P/E vs. FY13-18 Relative price performance (Jun’13-Jun’18)

For long term investors, valuations less meaningful for large cap investing

A comprehensive analysis of Large cap stock returns reveal a poor correlation with starting valuations

Page Industries: 41x FY13 P/E; 5Y Share

price CAGR: 47%;

Source: Ace Equity, Bloomberg

Note: i) Large cap universe analyzed – Top 500 companies ranked by market cap;

ii) Only positive P/Es were considered for this analysis; P/Es with a value greater than 100x are bounded at 100x;

iii) Stock returns are 5Y CAGR price returns relative to that of the Nifty Index

PVR: 29x FY13 P/E;

5Y Share price CAGR: 34%

Britannia: 31x FY13 P/E;

5Y Share price CAGR: 56%

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R² = 0.0011

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80%

0x 5x 10x 15x 20x 25x 30x 35x 40x 45x 50x

FY13 P/E vs. FY13-18 Relative price performance (Jun’13-Jun’18)

Similarly, for long term investors, valuations less relevant for small cap investing as well

A comprehensive analysis of small cap stock returns reveal a poor correlation with starting valuations

Tata Elxsi: 26x FY13 P/E;

5Y Share price CAGR: 71%;

Source: Ace Equity, Bloomberg

Note: i) Small cap universe analyzed – 500th-1500th ranked companies by market cap in India;

ii) Only positive P/Es were considered for this analysis; P/Es with a value greater than 100x are bounded at 100x;

iii) Stock returns are 5Y CAGR price returns relative to that of the BSE Small cap index

TV Today: 33x FY13 P/E;

5Y Share price CAGR: 44%

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The bulk of the run up in 2017 was in poor quality stocks..

Similarly, small caps with good accounting quality continue to be ignored in the current

environment

Moreover, the major small cap rerating this year has predominantly played out in firms with

poor RoCEs

Source: Ace Equity, Bloomberg; Note: (i) Universe – Ambit’s sub-BSE500 HAWK universe (~900 stocks); (ii) Q1 = Top 20% percentile in

FY2016 RoCE; ( iii ) Negative P/B ratios are excluded;

Source: Ace Equity, Bloomberg; Note: (i) Universe – Ambit’s sub-BSE500 HAWK universe (~900 stocks); (ii) Q1 = Top 20%

Accounting Quality; Period – Nov’16: Nov’17’. Figures are median reratings

Poor quality firms (on FY2016 RoCEs) have seen the highest rerating, with the

worst quintile seeing an ~80% jump in their multiples on average

Q5% Q4

Q3

Q2

Q1

R² = 0.898

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FY2016 RoCE

Average P/B Rerating vs FY16 RoCE (Nov'16-Nov'17)

Firms with poor accounting have seen their stocks rerate the highest over the

past year on a P/B, EV/EBITDA and P/E basis.

18.5% 19.5%

18.2%

25.7%

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Quintile1 Quintile2 Quintile3 Quintile4 Quintile5

Rerating in EV/EBITDAs Rerating in P/Es Rerating in P/Bs

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..while quality small caps remained reasonably priced

Similarly, small caps with high returns on capital remain amongst the least expensive Small caps with good accounting quality trade at a discount to firms in the lowest quality

quintile

Source: Ace Equity, Bloomberg; Note: (i) Universe – Ambit’s sub-BSE500 HAWK universe (~900 stocks); (ii) Q1 = Top 20% Accounting

Quality; ( iii ) Negative P/E and EV/EBITDA ratios are excluded; (iv) Data as of Nov 30 2017

Source: Ace Equity, Bloomberg; Note: (i) Universe – Ambit’s sub-BSE500 HAWK universe (~900 stocks); (ii) Q1 = Top 20% in

RoCEs ; (iii) Negative P/E and EV/EBITDA ratios are excluded; (iv) Data as of Nov 30 2017 (V). Quintile 5- P/E ratio stands at 211x

12x

23x

11x

25x

11x

25x

13x

24x

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FY17 EV/EBITDA FY17 P/E

FY2017 Valuation Multiples vs Accounting Quintiles

Quintile1 Quintile2 Quintile3 Quintile4 Quintile5

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FY17 EV/EBITDA FY17 P/E

FY2017 Valuation Multiples vs FY2017 RoCEs

Quintile1 Quintile2 Quintile3 Quintile4 Quintile5

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Poor quality firms were massive underperformers in recent market correction

…but firms with poor accounting quality corrected sharply in a more normal marker

scenario of CY18

Investors shunned accounting quality during the liquidity-driven market rally of CY17…

Source: Ambit Capital research. Note: universe for this exhibit is the BSE500 ex-financial universe.

Performance has been calculated from 15 Dec’16 to 15 Dec’17. These are average returns for the deciles.

Source: Ambit Capital research. Note: universe for this exhibit is the BSE500 ex financial

universe. Performance has been calculated from 20 Dec’17 to 07 Dec’18. These are average returns for the deciles.

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Ambit Group: An Overview

• Founded in 1997 as a boutique M&A Advisory firm, added various

offerings over two decades to become a full service India focused

Investment Bank

• Deep coverage of large and mid-cap Indian Corporates and key India

focused Global Corporates

• Strong corporate governance with clear demarcation between ownership,

governance and management. Owned largely by employees

• Stable experienced team of 450+ employees

• Statutory Auditors: Deloitte Haskins & Sells

• Global presence with offices in Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, London, New

York and Singapore

Strategic business alliance for mergers and

acquisitions advisory services in Indo-Japan

corridor

Strategic partnership with QInvest offers a broad

range of expertise to deliver high value service,

seamlessly covering client needs across Middle

East, Turkey, South and South East Asia, and

Africa

Overview Business Verticals

Global Partnerships

ASSET MANAGEMENT Portfolio Management Services

CORPORATE FINANCE

Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) and Divestures

Alternative Capital Raising

Equity Capital Markets (ECM)

INSTITUTIONAL EQUITIES

Differentiated research/Bespoke strategies

Derivatives and Technical analysis

Block Trading

PRIVATE WEALTH

Proprietary Investment Products

Open Architecture Model

Asset Allocation, Tax and Estate Planning

SME FINANCE

Small Business Loans

Loans against Properties

STRUCTURED FINANCE

Lending Solutions

Loan Syndication

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT

Investing in high potential value discovery stories

Small-Cap and Mid-Cap Public Companies

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Disclaimer

• Ambit Investment Advisors Private Limited (“Ambit”) is a registered Portfolio Manager with Securities and Exchange

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• This presentation is strictly for information and illustrative purposes only and should not be considered to be an

offer, or solicitation of an offer, to buy or sell any securities or to enter into any Portfolio Management agreements.

This presentation / newsletter / report is prepared by Ambit strictly for the specified audience and is not intended

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completeness of the assumptions from which they are derived, and it is expected each prospective investor will pursue

its own independent due diligence. In preparing this presentation, Ambit has relied upon and assumed, without

independent verification, the accuracy and completeness of information available from public sources. Accordingly,

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Disclaimer

• You are expected to take into consideration all the risk factors including financial conditions, Risk-Return profile,

tax consequences, etc. You understand that the past performance or name of the portfolio or any similar product do not

in any manner indicate surety of performance of such product or portfolio. You further understand that all such

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disinvesting. Ambit or Ambit associates may have financial or other business interests that may adversely affect the

objectivity of the views contained in this presentation.

• Ambit does not guarantee the future performance or any level of performance relating to any products of Ambit or any

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service provider does not provide any assurance or guarantee that the objectives of the product are specifically

achieved. Ambit shall not be liable to client for any losses that you may suffer on account of any investment or

disinvestment decision based on the communication or information or recommendation received from Ambit on any product.

Further Ambit shall not be liable for any loss which may have arisen by wrong or misleading instructions given by you

whether orally or in writing.

• The product ‘Ambit Good & Clean Portfolio’ has been migrated from Ambit Capital Private Limited to Ambit Investments

Advisors Private Limited. Hence some of the information in this presentation may belong to the period when this product

was managed by Ambit Capital Private Limited.

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