The approach is similar to the strategy the fund house has adopted in case of other equity funds. “The focus is on bottom-up investment ideas and Growth at Reasonable Price (GARP) approach. Typically, we look for compounding characteristics of earnings growth at reasonable valuations, and build portfolio around that strategy,” says Kotak Mahindra AMC’s chief investment officer (equities) Harsha Upadhyaya, who has been managing the fund since August 2015. The fund sticks to this approach irrespective of whether bulls or bears are in command at the bourses, preferring to rely on sector allocation and stock selection to deal with market conditions. Cash levels generally do not cross 7.5% of the corpus. HDFC Bank, Reliance Industries and ITC make up its top three holdings.