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Q4 24/25

Apr 28, 2025

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, good day and welcome to the Motilal Oswal Financial Services Q4 FY25 Earnings Conference Call. As a reminder, all participant lines will be in listen-only mode, and there will be an opportunity for you to ask questions after the presentation concludes. Should you need assistance during the conference call, please signal an operator by pressing star then zero on your touch-tone phone. Please note that this conference is being recorded. I now hand the conference over to Mr. Manish Kayal from Motilal Oswal Financial Services. Thank you, and over to you, sir.

Manish Kayal
Head of Investor Relations, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited

Thank you, Sejal. Good afternoon, everyone, and a warm welcome to all the participants to Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited Earnings Call to discuss the results for Q4 and full year FY25. I'm Manish Kayal, Head, i nvestor relations. We hope that you had an opportunity to go through our investor deck and the press release uploaded on the stock exchanges and on our website on Friday.

We have also uploaded that detailed Excel data book on our website that has all the operational and financial numbers. Before we proceed with this call, please note that today's discussion may include forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on current analysis and anticipation of the management. Actual results may vary and are subject to risk and uncertainties. We encourage you to consider these factors when evaluating our performance.

On today's call, the company is represented by Mr. Motilal Oswal, Managing Director and CEO; Mr. Navin Agarwal, Group Managing Director; Mr. Ajay Menon, CEO for the Wealth Management Business; Mr. Prateek Agrawal, MD and CEO, AMC Business; Mr. Ashish Shankar, CEO of the Private Wealth Management Business; Mr. Sukesh Bhowal, CEO for the Housing Finance Business; Mr. Shalibhadra Shah, Chief Financial Officer; and Sanchit Suneja, the Group Chief Strategy Officer. We'll start this call with an opening remark by Navin, and then we'll have a Q&A session. Navin.

Navin Agarwal
Group Managing Director, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited

Good afternoon, everyone. It is my pleasure to welcome all of you once again to our earnings call for the quarter and the year ended 31 March, 2025 to discuss our company and the overall group's performance. Let me start by providing you a quick snapshot of the year at a group level, and then highlight segment-wise performance of each of our businesses, and conclude by giving you a broader outlook of where we think we are headed. Starting with the full year performance, the FY25 has been a very robust year.

The group has witnessed market share gains across all capital market businesses, which I'll highlight in the business section. During the year, we have strengthened our moats by investing further in research, in talent, technology, brand, and infrastructure to be future-ready.

The strong business profitability and ROE affords us the luxury to make these significant investments while continuing to report strong profit growth and return on equity. Our focus continues to increase our share of fee-based and trail-based revenues. We've crossed a major milestone by servicing more than 12 million customers, comprising of 7.8 million unique mutual fund folios and 4.8 million plus unique broking accounts.

Our operating revenue for the year stood at 5,161 crores, which is the first time we've crossed the 5,000 crore mark, up by 31%, and our operating profit stood at over 2,000 crores, at 2,016 crores, again up by 31% year- on- year. I want to highlight here that our decadal operating profit compounded growth is superior and is an industry best at 31%.

For the Q4 , our operating revenue stood at INR 1,311 crores, up by 8% year- on- year, and operating profit stood at INR 519 crores, up by 3% again year- on- year. Our assets under advised crossed 5.5 lakh crore mark, up by 33% year- on- year. Our annual recurring revenue has a percentage of total net revenue grew by 56% at the end of FY25. Our fee-based revenue contribution to our total revenues increased from 31% same time last year to 37% now.

We closed the year with, again, a record net worth of over 11,000 crores at INR 11,079 crores, up by 27% year- on- year. Our ROE stands at 25% for the fiscal year ending 2025. These are not one-off. I want to repeat, as our decadal net worth growth, after consistently paying out over 20% of our profits as dividends and doing three buybacks since listing, is a very robust 24% compounded growth in net worth without raising any capital. I want to repeat, and the decadal average return on equity is at 22%.

Turning now to our segmental performance, starting with the wealth management business. Our wealth management business continued its growth momentum, but as I highlighted earlier, we have a laser-sharp focus on growing our distribution business alongside the broking business as well. This is reflected in our FY25 growth, wherein our net flows grew 3x to over INR 10,000 crores in FY25 on a YOY basis. Consequently, the book grew from INR 23,000 crores as of March 2024 to over INR 31,000 crores in March 2025, up by 33% YOY.

Its contribution to the total revenues, which was 11% in the last year, moved up to 19% in FY25. We had highlighted that our cross-sell ratios leave a lot of headroom for us to improve this, that we have made substantial investments in manpower and regional and central leadership to drive this growth, and we would like to believe that the share of distribution in the total revenues of this business should continue to track up like they went up from 11% in FY24 to 19% in FY25.

Turning to our brokerage business, our retail cash broking ADTO was up by 36% on a year-on-year basis to INR 3,599 crores during FY25. Our cash volume market share was at 7.6% in FY25 compared to 7.4%. This number has been consistently going up during the course of the last five years, and you've seen an explosion in the Demat accounts.

By way of context, our market share was at 5.6% in FY21, and this number stands at 7.6% in FY25. Our F&O premium market share stands at 8.5% versus 8% in the last year. Our ADTO market share grew to 8.1% in FY25 versus 7.9% in FY24. So every single line item within the brokerage volumes has seen an expansion in market share, both on a year-on-year basis as well as over a five-year basis.

Our Q4 witnessed cash volume decline due to market corrections, which impacted our brokerage revenues. We also saw implementation of new F&O regulations, which we believe will only strengthen the competitive position of Motilal Oswal as a full-service broker in the marketplace.

Third part of the wealth management business is the net interest income, which grew by 37% year on year due to higher lending book as well as improvement in spreads from 5.9% in the previous year to 6.5% in the current year. Turning to our asset and private wealth business, the AMC business continued its strong momentum during the year with market share gains driven by strong investment performance. Coupled with expansion in our distribution presence, our gross flows grew by 290% year- on- year in FY25 to INR 68,000 crores plus.

We are confident that with the current run rate of flows that we've seen in the months of February, March, and the early trends in the month of April, our AUM market share could continue to rise in FY26 over the existing FY25 numbers, and this obviously has a meaningful impact on both the top line as well as profitability of the asset management business. This is despite the fact that we are starting off on a base of INR 1.23 lakh crore of AUM.

In terms of net flows of the asset management business, it grew multifold to 5,191 crores from 5,191 crores last year to 48,450 crores by 10x, mainly due to outperformance, wherein 90% of the AUM that we manage for our clients performed better than the benchmark over the course of the last past 12 months, and even over the course of the last year, a substantial part of our AUM has beaten the benchmark by a healthy margin.

On SIPs, we have added 51 lakh SIPs in FY25. Our SIP flow for FY25 stood at 9,256 crores. This grew by three times over the previous year, resulting in an AUM of SIP book of over 20,000 crores as of March 2025. Our alternate AUM grew by 23% to over 28,000 crores as of March 2025. We are now among the top players, even in alternative flows led by strong investment performance.

Turning to our alternatives business, our PE business is among the very few domestic PEs with strong IRRs over the last 18 years across the four growth funds that we manage. We have recently received the SEBI approval to launch our fifth private equity fund, wherein we are targeting to raise at least $900 million, which is two times the size of our fund four, Series Four fund.

Our past funds have delivered strong IRR and expect the momentum to continue in our private equity business. This business has a fee-earning AUM of nearly 10,000 crores across growth capital funds and real estate funds. The market value of these funds stands at nearly 18,000 crores.

We expect substantial amounts of carry on these funds across the four growth capital funds and the five real estate funds to be realized over the course of the life of these funds. Turning to our private wealth management business, during FY25, we focused on senior hirings to further strengthen our leadership position.

These efforts enhance our UHNI family office proposition and position us well to emerge as a leading player in the private wealth management business in the coming years. Our current RM strength is 595, and we expect improvement in RM productivity as only 33% of this RM base has a vintage of over three plus years, which is a time period required to turn profitable on this RM base.

We believe private wealth management business will contribute a larger share of profitability for the group in the coming years due to higher growth as we continue to penetrate more customers with differentiated products and services that the clients demand in the segment. Turning to the capital market business, our institutional equities business continues to increase research coverage as it is a fulcrum of the group. We have a strong team of 140-plus employees covering 300 companies in 24 sectors.

We cover 73% of the market cap and service over 880 domestic and overseas institutional clients. Turning to our investment banking business, this business had a very strong year. We successfully completed 39 deals with a cumulative issuance of INR 51,000 crores last year. We were ranked number one in QIP league tables and ranked number three in terms of the total number of IPOs filed last year.

We've strengthened our team over the past few quarters across both these businesses. We continue to increase research coverage in IE as well as our IB pipeline. It's more than two times the revenues that we booked in FY25, providing us reasonably strong visibility of growth in this business, notwithstanding the recent volatility that we've seen in the marketplace.

Turning to our housing finance business, this business too had a strong year. Our sales RM force increased to 1,329, up by nearly 40% year on year. Our disbursements grew by 78% to 1,794 crores. This resulted in the business achieving an AUM of 4,900 crores, which is up by 20%. We believe strongly that we have all the building blocks in place for the next two to three years of reasonably strong growth in our AUMs and profitability as we start converting these RM base that we've added to productivity.

Our GNPAs and NNPAs are at 0.8% and 0.4% respectively as of March 2025, with a team in place with a strong capital adequacy ratio, with internal approvals that are available to be redeployed, and with potential upgrade in the group's rating, bringing down the cost of funds further. We believe that this business is very well poised. Turning to the treasury investments, our total equity investments, including alternatives, grew by INR 7,730 crores as of March 2025, which is up by 26%.

This investment has delivered a healthy XIRR, the total IRR during the course of the life of the investments, of nearly 18%, including the investment of cash flows. The treasury investments have grown by 42% compounded over the course of the last decade. We have highlighted that this growth in the coming decade should be similar and not dramatically different.

We believe that our treasury investments will continue to deliver strong IRRs over longer term and also provide cushion to our operating business growth and reduce our need to raise external equity.

In the last decade, the contribution of treasury PAT to our net worth has been 20%, and while operating profits continue to compound at robust rate, I dare to make a forecast that the next decade's contribution of mark-to-market profits on treasury to our net worth could far outstrip the contribution of operating profits itself due to the magic of compounding.

Turning to the outlook, as you can see, with strong growth drivers for all our businesses, which I highlighted, we believe that the Motilal Oswal group is very well placed to benefit from financialization theme, which is a long-term mega trend.

This trend is expected to play out over several decades, especially in India, and given the low penetration of investment products and services, we believe that we are well poised. These structural drivers position us to benefit from a projected 10x increase in cumulative household savings from INR 14 trillion that we estimate for the last 25 years to over INR 125 trillion in the next 25 years, coupled with a higher share of financial savings, rising allocation to equities and alternatives, and increased concentration of wealth.

All our capital market businesses, including wealth management, asset management, private wealth, alternatives, institutional equities, and investment banking, already hold leading market positions, but many of them still have a lot of headroom to further increase the market salience and market share.

With these strong tailwinds, we are confident of continuing to deliver strong profitability growth just as we have in the past while maintaining a consistent dividend payout. We'll now open the floor for Q&A. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you very much. We will now begin the question and answer session. Anyone who wishes to ask a question may press star and one on their touchtone telephone. If you wish to remove yourself from the question queue, you may press star and two. Participants are requested to use the handset while asking a question. Ladies and gentlemen, we will wait for a moment while the question queue assembles. The first question is from the line of Vivek Ramakrishnan from DSP Mutual Funds. Vivek, go ahead.

Vivek Ramakrishnan
Fixed Income Fund Manager, DSP Mutual Funds

Yeah, hi. Good afternoon. The questions are in your loan against securities and margin trading funding. I just wanted to know the size of the book and what kind of gearing you use in those companies. And now the second question is common for both the home loan business as well as this LAS book. With the falling interest rates, do you expect margin expansion, especially in the LAS book, and how do you expect the interest rate transmission to happen in the home loan book? Those are my questions. Thank you.

Operator

So your line is unmuted.

Shalibhadra Shah
CFO, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited

Hello. Yeah, Vivek, hi. Shalibhadra here. Good afternoon. The book size total on the lending is on both the MTF and loan against securities is INR 7,000 crores. MTF is INR 5,000 crores, and INR 2,000 crores is lending against securities. Our overall leverage stands at one time. If you exclude the housing, our net gearing is just one time on the total net worth deployed in the loan against securities and MTF book. Sorry, Vivek, you could repeat your second question?

Vivek Ramakrishnan
Fixed Income Fund Manager, DSP Mutual Funds

Sure. It's on the interest rates have come down. So in both this loan against securities MTF book as well as in your home loan book, how will the interest rate declines get transmitted, and do you expect margin expansion where you'll hold a little bit better margins? Because you had a margin increase, especially in the last book, and the interest rates went up.

Shalibhadra Shah
CFO, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited

Yeah. So if you look at our incremental cost of funds, it is now 50 basis points lower than the overall cost currently. So we are already seeing the impact of the trade cycle favorable coming to us on both of these, whether it is on the margin trade finance segment or on the housing finance. So to that extent, we will see the betterment of spreads and margins in the coming periods going forward.

Vivek Ramakrishnan
Fixed Income Fund Manager, DSP Mutual Funds

Thank you very much, and wish you good luck.

Shalibhadra Shah
CFO, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. The next question is from the line of Uday Pai from Investec. Please go ahead.

Uday Pai
Equity Research Associate, Investec India

Yeah. Thank you for the opportunity. I just had a couple of questions. First one is that for the last two quarters, we have seen cash market share coming down significantly. I remember in the last call, you mentioned that your customers tend to trade lower in a volatile market. Can you give some more color on this phenomenon? Why are you losing market share in the cash segment specifically?

That's the first. And secondly, on the disbursement run rate in HFC, is there a one-off in this quarter, or do we see a similar kind of run rate going forward? Those are the two questions. Thank you. Yeah.

Shalibhadra Shah
CFO, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited

See, as far as the cash market share is concerned, so when market is volatile, typically our segment is advisory-driven, and advisors don't give much calls to the customers because they want to also maintain a long-term relationship.

So the whole reason market is volatile, you may see somewhat of blip on the cash market share where there would be some impact. But I think if you look at our market share over the last two, three years, that has actually directionally gained every year. Even in the last financial year, overall market share has been up.

Coming to the housing finance disbursement, so housing finance disbursement is, if you see, continuously every quarter, our rate of disbursement has been growing. And so if you look at FY24 over FY23, we had grown by 70%. Again, FY25 over FY24 is also up, again, up 70%. And we already guided that our AUM is expected to grow at 20%, and that's what we have achieved in FY25.

And again, we are creating a base of higher RMs by almost about 35% increase in the capacity over next financial year, which would further in tune increase the run rate of our disbursement group.

Uday Pai
Equity Research Associate, Investec India

Sure, sir. Thank you.

Shalibhadra Shah
CFO, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. The next question is from the line of Mahek from Emkay Global Financial Services. Please go ahead.

Mahek Shah
Equity Research Analyst, Emkay Global

Hi, sir. Thanks for the opportunity. A couple of questions. So first is on the wealth management business. So if I look at the distribution income, the QoQ revenue growth remains substantially high as compared to the flat asset growth. So I just wanted to understand if this strong growth in the distribution income is likely led by the insurance products.

Second is on the private wealth management business. So if you look at the Q4 FY25, the performance has not been that great. If I compare it on a QoQ basis, the distribution revenue is down 30% while the PAT is down 23%. So I just wanted to understand what was driving this weak performance for the private wealth management business.

And lastly, at the consolidated level, if I look at the employee cost, the employee cost has grown for the first three quarters of the year from INR 387 crore to INR 453 crore in Q3. So I just wanted to understand what resulted in the decline in the employee cost in Q 4 to INR 420 crore. Three questions from my side.

Shalibhadra Shah
CFO, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited

Yeah. Thanks, Mahek. To answer your first question on the distribution side, see, we have been continuously talking about how we are increasing our focus on the distribution business. And that's what is happening where the net flows are almost 3x on a full year basis, and distribution assets have also grown by 33% on a YoY basis, which has led to a surge in the distribution revenue. More specifically, even on Q4 of this year, the distribution revenues have grown basically on account of a couple of reasons. One is, of course, the ARR revenues are also up.

Secondly, the transaction-driven revenues, if we actually look at the composition of that, it mainly represents secondary market transactions which have happened. It also represents insurance higher transactions because only Q 4 is also based where insurance revenues are also higher. But all of these on a YoY basis have doubled. So that's where the growth in the entire distribution revenue is looking very large, and this is what has been the focus with the dedicated team that we have put in place.

Coming to the private wealth segment on the distribution revenue, so again, I think last quarter also we had talked about that Q 3 included somewhat of transactions on the co-investment space where there was a lumpy revenue of transactions in the private wealth segment. So that is normalized in Q 4.

So we see the impact of that resulting in reduction in the transaction revenues in the Q 4 for private wealth. However, overall, this business has also grown both on ARR and transaction revenues on a YoY basis, resulting in the strong base of the opening ARR assets for building the next year's growth.

On the employee cost front at the consolidated level, so the first three quarters you would have seen how strong our overall operating performance has been, and we had always provided for the variable amounts in all of these quarters. So first nine months, we had already caught up for the betterment of the overall performance for the entire year, and somewhat of marginal reversal has happened in Q4 in the variable numbers given the performance of Q 4 as well.

That is one of the reasons you would see the overall employee cost lower in Q4 than the earlier quarters. However, people cost to revenue, if you look at it, has been flat on a full year basis.

Mahek Shah
Equity Research Analyst, Emkay Global

Right, right, sir. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. The next question is from the line of Shreyas Pimple from JM Financial. Please go ahead.

Shreyas Pimple
Equity Research Analyst, JM Financial

Hi. Thank you so much for taking my question.

Operator

Sorry, Vivek. If I had a question. I would request you to please use your hands up.

Shreyas Pimple
Equity Research Analyst, JM Financial

Hi. Can you hear me now? Yes, sir. Yeah. So my question was in the AMC business. If you look at mutual fund AUM on closing basis and average basis, the mutual fund AUM on closing basis has gone down, while on average basis, it has gone up. So do you expect going ahead, the average AUM also coming down in Q1, Q2?

Prateek Agrawal
Managing Director and CEO, AMC Business, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited

So a lot of it is on account of how markets have moved. We got a bad data in Feb. So while the closing March was better, so it's to do with how markets have moved. Now, from March and AUM, if April is positive, then you should expect accordingly and vice versa.

Navin Agarwal
Group Managing Director, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited

Just to add, our current AUM is now a nearly lifetime high. It's about 2% short of that. So you can get an idea in terms of and we guided that our market share in net sales continue to improve. So while the overall industry flows are lower, we still continue to have reasonable market share out of those lower volumes. So the absolute numbers still continue to add to the monthly AUM also.

Shreyas Pimple
Equity Research Analyst, JM Financial

Sure, sure. That was the only question. Thank you so much, sir.

Operator

Thank you. The next question is from the line of Rohan Advani from Parth Capital. Please go ahead.

Yeah. Thanks for the opportunity. So most of my questions have been answered. Just on the brokerage revenue front, we've reported 288 crores in this quarter. Has all the impact of the rule changes been reflected for the full quarter, or there is any further tailwind that remains to be factored into the brokerage revenue line item?

Shalibhadra Shah
CFO, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited

So brokerage revenue line item is already factoring all the regulatory changes which have come on, especially on the F&O side of the business. So we see the full impact of that coming in this quarter.

Okay. Okay. And so.

Yeah. Sorry. Market volatility accompanying these regulatory changes over the course of the last, if you see, five months ending March, and the impact of that on both F&O as well as cash volumes. So I think this is all of these bundled together happening in a space of four to five months.

Understood. And sir, just one question as a follow-up on the distribution revenue. You've reported under the wealth management segment of INR 187 crores. If I relate it to the distribution AUM, it translates to a 2.4% yield. So that seems very high relative to our cost. And I get that you've added RMs, and that's caused the uptick. But what kind of a yield is more sustainable on this?

See, typically, distribution, if you look at our overall yields, are at 110 basis points, yeah, in this business. Typically, one should look at the yields on the flows, not on the if you're looking at the transaction revenues and the yields. It's to be looked at on the flows. We've seen substantial rise in the flows because this quarter itself was about 4,000 crores of net flows in this business.

You calculate the yield on the flows at the same time because, as I guided that, the impact in quarter 4 was because of the revenues on the secondary market transactions on the private securities and as well as the insurance, where the yield is higher. Because of that, next Q 4 would show higher yield to that extent. On a normalized basis, for the entire year, the yield is 110 basis points, which is sustainable.

Got it, sir. Thank you, and all the best. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. The next question is from the line of Nidhesh Jain from Investec. Please go ahead.

Nidhesh Jain
Equity Research Analyst, Investec India

Thanks for the opportunity. There are two questions. Firstly, on the housing finance, is there any update on our stance of demerging that entity or monetizing that stake in the housing finance business? That is the first question.

Second question is on technology, etc. We are seeing significant changes on the technology side across all businesses, and I think financial service business will also be significantly changed over the next five to 10 years because of the changes in technology. So how are we preparing for those changes? How much investment we are making? What is the profile of our technology team? Who is heading that team? And how are we preparing for that?

Sukesh Bhowal
Managing Director and CEO, Housing Finance Business, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited

So as far as the housing finance business is concerned, we gave you a business update already. We are looking at continued strong growth, and we have a very strong leadership team in place, and we have all the options open, whether it is in terms of stake monetization, eventual IPO, etc., as we've articulated in the conference calls in the past. At this point in time, we don't have any update as of the last quarter on any of those, but we'll keep you posted as we have any updates in the current financial year.

Turning to the tech talent, we have quite a few updates there.

Shalibhadra Shah
CFO, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited

Technology, our group CTO is Pankaj, and he has been with us for the last 22 years in the group. He's very well experienced, and we have an IT team of over 800 plus people catering to all the businesses in the group.

If you look at our digital journey across each of the businesses, we are very well aligned to take care of the scalability across each business to the technology medium. In terms of our spends, also, we spend almost about 4.5% of our net revenues on technology. This number is growing. Over the last year, this number is up almost 100 basis points. Even in the current financial year, we have a very strong IT budget, which we keep spending to scale up our businesses, including security and all. That's how we are well positioned for our scalability through the digital means as well.

Sukesh Bhowal
Managing Director and CEO, Housing Finance Business, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited

In fact, just to add, in the year ending March 2025, three line items which have seen very strong growth, which may not necessarily have its impact on the same financial year as Shalibhadra mentioned, our technology cost is up by 100 basis points as a proportion of the revenues year- on- year. Same is the case with our marketing cost this year, substantially higher spend on that.

The third is the leadership strengthening that we've done both across business as well as support functions. I think all three have led to giving away a lot of the operating leverage that a strong top-line growth could have given us in the current year. We are hopeful that some of these investments will make a big difference.

As I mentioned, the leadership positions include Sanchit is on this call, the Group Chief Strategy Officer, the chief marketing officer, the strengthening of the technology team in a big way. And even at the business level, several senior people hiring that have been done. Okay.

Navin Agarwal
Group Managing Director, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited

Just to add, we also have created a few new positions in the technology as part of Pankaj's team. We have group head AI joined from a global firm. We also have a technology research team separately. Kind of, I think for the first time, we've added these positions. And I think we have absolutely invested a lot into new and new technology to make sure that we remain at edge. Our app is also one of the best rated now, with new app RISE being kind of launched for the first time.

So it's all kind of our way to make sure that we remain one of the best, technology aided by the best of well-trained manpower.

Nidhesh Jain
Equity Research Analyst, Investec India

Sure, so just one more question, sir. If you look at the wealth management business, the share of our direct channel has been going up, and the share of B2B is coming down. Is there any preference that we are focusing more on direct channel versus the AP channel in that business?

Navin Agarwal
Group Managing Director, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited

See, every channel has different people heading it. We always look at kind of, I think, trying to make sure that wherever we want to invest more, we just really, I think, put more focus on that. But we have no preference for direct versus indirect because indirect is a way to reach to the nooks and corners of the country, while direct branches will be only into large cities. Yeah.

Nidhesh Jain
Equity Research Analyst, Investec India

Okay. Thank you. That's it from my side.

Operator

Thank you. Before we take the next question, a reminder to all the participants that you may press star and one to ask a question. The next question is from the line of Dipanjan Ghosh from Citigroup. Please go ahead.

Dipanjan Ghosh
Equity Research Analyst, Citi Global Markets

Hi, sir. Good morning. A few questions from my side. First, on your wealth management and private wealth business separately, if you can give some color on the quality of the transactional revenue, not for Q4 , but maybe more on a steady-state basis, what's the mix between insurance, secondary market transactions, fixed income transactions, some color on that, and how do you see the market activity levels incrementally?

My second question is on the distributed MF assets, both in wealth management and private wealth, and especially in wealth management. On a closing basis, it seems that the mark-to-market movement is a little bit higher than the industry averages. So just trying to get some sense of two things. One is, is the distributed assets a little bit more skewed towards SMID, foreign midcap, and also what is the share of your own AUM or in-house AUM within the distributed assets for both wealth and private wealth?

And third question, while the overall flows might have been a little bit here and there over the last quarter, but in terms of new family additions on the private wealth side, you have done reasonably well. So, what is that? Some color on incrementally how are you seeing the pipeline of both fresh flows coming in from these newly acquired clients, also new clients coming into the ecosystem on the private wealth side? So those are my three questions.

Navin Agarwal
Group Managing Director, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited

Thanks, Dipanjan. So basically, a few high-level trends that you may want to make note of. We have been guiding that our cross-sale ratios are quite low, particularly in the wealth management business, and that there is a lot of headroom, right? This was something that we would have said two, three years ago.

And then if you listen to the same con call last year, we highlighted to you that we already have substantially augmented the team and the leadership for the distribution business. So this was always an opportunity for us, but we also put a lot of resources behind this opportunity over the course of the last 18 months. So FY25 is the first year of realization of some of those benefits, but we believe that this is something that can continue for multiple years.

So that is one resource augmentation and tapping this opportunity, which was latent in the business, where the accounts were already there, the DMAT balances were already there. The second thing that we had highlighted to you earlier is that we are a big believer in the rise of alternatives while the mutual fund AUM continues to rise.

So basically, the actively managed part of the wealth of India, which itself is expected to go up many-fold. And within that, the share of alternatives is expected to continue to rise. Now, what is happening in the process is that the yields on some of these products would be higher than the traditional products. The advent of secondary market in unlisted companies, which is a big phenomenon in many parts of the world, particularly in the US, is something that has also been rising in India.

And you have more and more companies that are becoming relevant for people to start, particularly the affluent and the high-net-worth individuals to start looking at. So basically, it's a mix of both, a lot more effort, a lot more resources, and how the market is evolving and how we are positioned overall within that market to tap this opportunity.

You will always see quarter-on-quarter volatility in these revenue streams, lumpiness of insurance in the fourth quarter, certain unlisted opportunities or co-investment opportunities spiking up in a particular quarter. But directionally, if you ask me, FY25 was much bigger than FY24. I have no reason to believe FY26, 27, 28 will each be much bigger than the respective previous years because of these trends that are really unfolding. Yeah.

Ajay Menon
Managing Director and CEO, Wealth Mangement, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited

As far as the AUM captive AUM is concerned, so on the wealth management space, the captive AUM is 31%, and on the private wealth, it is 10%.

Navin Agarwal
Group Managing Director, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited

As far as the mark-to-market of this AUM being higher than the peers, actually, I mean, think equity, think Motilal Oswal is an important tagline for the group.

And the share of equities, while we are very upbeat on the share of fixed income in our overall AUM, and a lot of effort is being put in there. We have a separate head of fixed income within the private wealth business that has been appo inted, and the fixed income AUM is also growing, but we are more indexed to the equity AUM. And as you see, the last five years, three years have seen very strong performance of equity AUM versus the fixed income AUM, and hence the mark-to-market on that AUM has also been higher than the peers.

Sukesh Bhowal
Managing Director and CEO, Housing Finance Business, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited

One more point. As regards the number of families, we've grown the total relationships by 25% in FY25 over FY24. And like Navin mentioned, the kind of products that we are launching allows us to get a foothold into the largest families in India. So the quality of client addition has been significantly better than the previous years, and we expect it to be even bigger in the coming years. Sure.

Dipanjan Ghosh
Equity Research Analyst, Citi Global Markets

Just maybe if I can get one or two follow-ups. Yeah. Sure. So on the first question on the transactional revenue part, I appreciate the effort, but just wanted to get some sense of the mix in terms of in a normal year. I mean, I understand there will be volatilities, but would it be like the secondary market would be like 30%-40% of the TBR, or maybe insurance is like 10%-20%? So if you can give some color on that.

And second, this is one question on the private wealth business, and maybe I can recheck my calculations, but it seems that there has been some significant mark-to-market hit on the seed funding that you have done in that in terms of the manufacturing of some of the products. So these are my last two questions.

Sukesh Bhowal
Managing Director and CEO, Housing Finance Business, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited

So again, as far as the mix of the distribution income is concerned, I mean, really, even if you anchor yourself to secondary being X, insurance being Y, trail being Z, broking being A, I think we see meaningful changes depending on how the markets themselves behave on a year-to-year basis. So really, I would say that, I mean, at a broader level, the way I would like to guide you is that at least for the wealth management part of the business, the distribution income should continue to grow strongly.

The overall wealth management businesses, private wealth businesses, as you can see, are highly under-indexed in terms of how much gap there is between the leader and us. So I think the headroom to grow in that business is quite substantial. I know it doesn't answer your question about trying to get the exact split of the distribution income, which we've not shared in the past, but that makes itself maybe quite volatile from a year-to-year basis.

Now, on the other question on the private wealth business, Ashish,

Ashish Shankar
Managing Director and CEO, private wealth management, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited

I think it's a function of markets as well. January and February were bad, and like Navin mentioned that we are quite indexed to the equity market. So that's why from an AUM point of view, you don't see the kind of growth that we probably got last Q4.

Dipanjan Ghosh
Equity Research Analyst, Citi Global Markets

Got it. Thank you, everyone, and all the best. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, you may press star and one to ask a question. A reminder to all the participants that you may press star and one to ask a question, and we have no further questions from the participants. With that, I now hand the conference over to Mr. Shalibhadra Shah for closing comments.

Shalibhadra Shah
CFO, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited

On behalf of Motilal Oswal Financial Services, I would like to thank every participant for attending the Q4 FY25 con call. In case of any further queries, please do get in touch with our investor relations desk. Thank you, and have a good day.

Operator

Thank you. On behalf of Motilal Oswal Financial Services that concludes this conference, thank you for joining us, and you may now disconnect your line.

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