The relatively small and new fund house has impressive figures to show for itself.

                                      

Equity schemes from the Motilal Oswal Asset Management Company stables are slowly and surely making a mark on the mutual fund performance charts.

The performance figures for the six month period ending 30 June shows that the fund's schemes are among the table toppers across all categories. In the mid and small-cap category, Motilal Oswal MOSt Focussed Midcap 30 emerged as the best-performing fund delivering gains of 15.8%, outscoring its category average by more than 11 percentage points. In the flexi-cap category, Motilal Oswal MOSt Focussed Multicap 35 clocked the highest returns at 14.8%, outperforming the category average by over 11%. In the large-cap category, Motilal Oswal MOSt Focussed 25 achieved a respectable third position with a 7.7% return, beating the category average nearly 6 percentage points.

The AMC launched its first fund in 2010. With an AUM of just over `3,000 crore spanning nine funds, it is among the smaller players in the arena.However, in vestors have lapped up its funds, with the corpus across the three schemes more than doubling from `1,369 cr in December 2014 to `2,845 cr in June 2015.

After starting out as an ETF-centric player, the fund house has shifted strategy and introduced a suite of actively man aged funds. It runs on a "Buy right, sit tight" philosophy. It picks quality businesses which are heavy on growth and longevity at a fair price and holds on to them for a long period. It derives its research capabilities from parent Motilal Oswal Securities.