Q3 - CFAI Rd31 - Equity Style

it seems more like a market oriented style as the portfolio shows both growth and value features by overweighting those sectors… what’s your thoughts?

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The Fund’s growth is less than the market benchmark, P/E, P/B are also lower and dividend yiel is higher than the benchmark. Clear value flavour. I don’t get it why CFAI believes Finance/Utilities are value sectors. In India, Finance/Utilities stocks have been on a tear in 2007. Growth in industries tend to reflect economic patterns in individual countries and trying to bucket whole sectors into growth/value is short sighted.

^That is why holding-based return analysis suffers from the disadvantage of subjective view of the analyst.