360 One Wam Limited ($360ONE)
Earnings Call Transcript · April 21, 2026
Earnings Call Speaker Segments
Anil Mascarenhas
ExecutivesGood evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to 360 One Wam earnings call for Q4 FY '26. [Operator Instructions] Please note this conference is being recorded. On the call today, we have with us Mr. Karan Bhagat, MD and CEO; Mr. Yatin Shah, CEO of the Wealth business; Mr. Sahil Murarka, CEO of 360 One Capital; Mr. Sanjay Wadhwa, CFO; and Mr. Anshuman Maheshwary. I now hand it over to Mr. Sanjay Wadhwa to take this call forward.
Sanjay Wadhwa
ExecutivesThank you, Anil. A very good evening to all the participants. FY '26 has been a landmark year for 361, 1 in which we have delivered strong financial outcomes and also meaningfully expanded the platform to complete our flywheel. Our core the growth, resilience and agility have once again been validated in a year that tested markets and businesses alike. FY '26 was characterized by complex interplay of global and domestic factors Indian capital markets saw periods of increased volatility, driven by evolving geopolitical dynamics and shifting global sentiments, while equity indices touched bullish levels in the first half, market witness phases of correction and sectoral rotation through the year, testing investor conviction. Encouragingly, the Indian wealth and asset management ecosystem remained resilient, supported by record SiP contributions, sustained monetization activity across IPOs, block deals, private equity exits and a growing investor preference for professionally managed and alternate asset classes. Our progressive regulatory environment continues to strengthen transparency, investor conference and long-term capital formation. Let me turn to the numbers now. Our total ARR AUM increased to INR 311,940 crores, up 26% year-on-year with 1RU at INR 16,000 crores and asset management ARR AUM at INR 95,000 crores. Total AUM stood at INR 6.7 lakh crores as on March 26, reflecting a 22% CAGR over the last 5 years. More importantly, ARR AUM has grown at a CAGR of 26% in the same period, and ARR revenues recorded a strong CAGR of 32%. ARR net flows for FY '26 are at INR 55,875 crores. Of this, even if we exclude the acquisition-related outflows, the organic FY '26 net flows rose 36% to INR 35,199 crores, representing 14% of our opening AUM. Within this, net flows on wealth were INR 25,900 crores, and asset management at INR 9,299 crores reflecting robust momentum from our core UHNI franchise maturing contribution from newly onboarded teams and and demand across all asset classes within asset management. ARR revenue stood at INR 2,289 crores, up 34.5% Y-o-Y and ARR revenue now comprising 75% of total revenue from operations. Q4 FY '26 ARR revenue was at INR 605 crores, up 20.4% Y-o-Y. ARR retention was at 78 basis points, with Wealth at 76 basis points and Asset Management at 83 basis points. Transaction and broking revenues rose 4.4% to INR 777 crores for the full year and INR 230 crores for Q4, up 53.7% Y-o-Y. The strong Q4 numbers partly reflect the full quarter consolidation of 361 Capital, the institutional equities business, formerly known as B&K Securities, whose broking revenue adds a structurally more consistent annuity-like component to what has historically been a more transactional revenue stream. Total revenue increased 18.6% to INR 3,144 crores for FY '26. Q4 revenue was INR 780 crores, up 18.5% to Y-o-Y, driven by strong growth across both wealth and asset verticals, partially offset by lower other income. On costs, FY '26, total cost stood at INR 1,568 crores. These are not directly comparable to FY '25 due to consolidation of B&K Securities. -- and ET money. FY '26 cost to income stood at 49.9%. However, cost to total operating income stood at around 50% as against 95% during the previous quarter. The UHNI Wealth and Asset Management cost-to-income ratios remained stable at 44%, 45% with higher ratio reflecting investment phase of our newer businesses. We expect gradual improvement in these metrics as these businesses scale up, we drive synergies from strategic initiatives and incoming wealth team reach full productivity. As an update to our past communication on tax-related matters, we have received an order today from the tax authorities with an aggregate demand of INR 336 crores in we believe that we have really discharged all tax liabilities as applicable. We have adequate factual and legal grounds to substantiate our position, and we do not expect any material impact on the financials on our operations due to these orders. We will pursue appeals against the entire order under the applicable laws. We are happy to report the company recorded its -- recorded its highest at full year PAT in FY '26 of INR 1,225 crores, an increase of 20.7%. Tangible ROE stood at 19.3%, and we expect this to improve as capital deployed in our lending and alternate businesses begin to reflect in earnings. The Board has approved the first interim dividend of INR 6 per share, continuing our disciplined capital allocation philosophy, returning capital to shareholders where we have surplus while retaining sufficient capacity to fund growth in our lending, alternate and strategic initiatives. Moving on from the numbers to a brief update on our new business and strategic initiatives. On the HNI segment, our reserve program now has approximately 60 relationship managers across 12 locations managing close to INR 4,000 crores of AUM for 650-plus clients at ARR retention yields of around 90 basis points. This is natural extension of our UHNI franchise and a powerful feeder pipeline into our core proposition, with an increase in business momentum and ramped activity in the coming year, we would expect the overall financial performance of this segment to improve significantly. On ET Money, FY '26 has been a year of strategic transformation on the business model and disciplined execution to drive multiple on-ground changes. With different engines at play, we would expect the business to head towards breakeven in the near term. The integration of B&K is now complete, and the institutional equities business has been rebranded as 360 One Capital. The business continues to perform strongly with over 500 mid- and small-cap companies under coverage over 300 institutional clients and over 90% cash segment share in the broking revenue. Importantly, the expected strategic synergies are coming to life with brokerage revenues from UHNI clients seeing an uplift and access to 600-plus corporate treasuries has open distribution and lending channels. Our investment banking platform is being built out, and we expect to begin meaningful contribution over the next 12 to 18 months. On the UBS collaboration, cross referral programs in the wealth business across NRI, resident and global mandates are showing positive early traction, and we expect these to convert to meaningful relations over the coming financial year. On the asset management side, we are seeing early synergies with UBS global distribution, providing a pathway for our alternate and listed strategies to access offshore capital. As we look towards FY '27 and beyond, we remain confident despite ongoing volatility. Over 18 years, we have navigated multiple challenges, challenging cycles, guided by step part focus on fundamentals and unwavering commitment to client interest. Today, we are supported by a strong balance sheet, a talented high-quality team and a culture anchored in doing the right things. I would like to thank all our stakeholders who have been with us through these 18 years. And with that, I'll hand it over to Karen for his comments.
Karan Bhagat
ExecutivesThank you, Sanjay. Thank you, everyone, for logging into the call and good evening, everybody. Given the fact that it's a year-end call out potentially take 5 minutes extra and talk a little bit about the strategy and where we see ourselves in context of the overall market and then open it up for question and answers. So good evening, everyone. Today, I wanted to talk through 4 things where we see, number one, the market is heading, what gives us our competitive edge, where we acknowledge where we need to do slightly better, the extraordinary opportunities that lie ahead of us, and most importantly, the risks which we are actively managing. Let me start at this stage with the macro picture first. Financial year 2026 was undeniably challenging for the Indian equity markets. Investors, both foreign and otherwise ended up withdrawing nearly $15 billion to $20 billion, but very well mitigated by the amount of domestic flows we saw especially through the mutual fund industry. However, from a very critical angle, India's domestic fundamentals have remained extremely strong. Our most important client set, the ultra high net worth individual and the operating businesses continued to do substantially well. We have now responded extremely well, and we've seen investors diversify and invest over the last 12 months across multiple asset classes. While we continue to remain relatively sanguine, we believe in a large way, the headwinds are largely priced in, policy environment largely supportive. And for long-term investors, the markets present one of the most attractive entry points across multiple asset classes, both on the equity side, yield plus assets as well as on the private equity side. As a wealth and asset management firm, this is precisely the environment where our advisory capabilities matter most and we are able to make a big difference to being able to give the right set of advice to our clients. Let me turn across to some of our key strengths. The first and most important strength for us, which we feel today is today our brand. We've never felt our brand has been stronger before over the last 18 to 19 years since we started our business in 2008. We built ourselves a name that is synonymous with integrity, discretion and long-term thinking and more often than not saying no for deals as opposed to saying yes. Our clients come to us not just for returns, but because they trust us with the fiduciary responsibility and a financial future, which is very important for them and across multiple generations. The brand has taken decades to build, and it compounds over time and much like the portfolios we manage, and we continue to protect our brand with a much jealousness as possible. Secondly, we've become the platform where we are able to attract the best quality people. Eventually, our business is a relationship derivative business, caliber of our teams and some total of our investment professionals, our wealth management professionals and most importantly, our partners finally determine the quality of advice we deliver. Our relationship managers are not simply salespeople. They are trusted advisers with deep sectoral knowledge, sophisticated product understanding and genuine client empathy. Equally important are our fund managers and investment professionals who translate market conviction into portfolio performance. Over the last 5 years, we've built deep teams which have navigated multiple market cycles and a disciplined research-driven approach is a core reason why clients stay with us through volatility. Our own understanding is across multiple asset classes, largely comes across as a function of us investing and building in a talent base that is combined institutional rigor, entrepreneur energy as well as top-tier investment advisory professionals who are with an intellectual honesty able to think for the long term. Thirdly, we today as an ecosystem, are blessed to be the partner of First Choice. If you look at large investment firms across the world for their India entry strategies for domestic private equity funds as well as partners who are large operators in India. We are the natural partners to combine with them to be able to do the right set of transactions and provide them the right amount of financial patient capital. These partnerships give our client access to best-in-class investment opportunities across multiple asset classes. Our shelf remains curated. It's not crowded. We recommended -- we always recommend what we believe in. We are never a pure broker. We always, always ensure that we are able to get to the client what we really value and advise. The fourth big change is the massive support, which has come through the regulatory changes over the last 4 to 5 years. We've been blessed in a sense where SEBI has made active regulatory changes over the last 4 to 5 years, both on the alternate industry as well as on the mutual fund industry and the portfolio management services as well as the wealth advisory regulations to enable us to operate in a more transparent and institutionalized market. Recent changes, including the co-investment guidelines accredited investors, introduction of [ SIFs ] allows us to play directly to our strengths as well as a compliance first organization. Lastly, fifth, rather not lastly, fifth, I think diversification for us has been superb. We are not a one-product firm. And most importantly, they're not even a 1 asset class phone. And that has enabled us to write through volatility in a very unique way. Today, if I reflect and look back at our client portfolios over the last 24 to 36 months, they have been steadfast largely because of a diversified allocation of not more than 40% to 50% in listed equities, nearly 20%, 25% allocation to yield assets, nearly 5% allocation to international assets, 5% to 10% to a safe debt and 10% to 15% to alternates, through a combination of real assets, private credit as well as private equity. This obviously allows a sustained return allows the client to build a very strong investment policy statement and look at his returns with the least amount of volatility and a long amount of compounding. Finally, technology and artificial intelligence for us is a big opportunity. It's not only something, which is a challenge, but also an opportunity because it allows us to make a firm, which is substantially more portfolio analytics driven and build personalized reporting tools that enable our relationship managers to be able to service the client in a faster, more clearer and cleaner manner and most importantly, with real-time insights. On the investment side, our fund managers can be substantially more productive. They're able to get access to research, which is substantially faster. On the operational side, obviously, AI can power our monitoring, workflows, document processing and most importantly, freeing up our best people to focus on truly what matters, which is thinking, advice and innovating constantly. These 6 areas of our brand today give us a lot of confidence not only to consolidate but also to expand and substantially build out our firm for the next 6 to 7 to 10-odd years. Obviously, when we look back, there are certain areas of improvement. And over the next 24 to 36 months, we'll work steadfastly to ensure that we are able to build out and improve on these following areas. I think over the last 24 to 36 months, we've ended up -- we've kind of got into 3 new businesses. I think one is largely the high net worth business, which we are building out in a very slow measured manner. I think last year is a good year for our measured success. I think team has done a phenomenal job in raising close to INR 3000 crores, INR 3,500 crores of net flows. On an average for the year, we've had only 35, 40 relationship managers. On a closing basis, we have 64, 65 relationship managers. It really doesn't show up in revenue numbers because a large portion of the assets are mutual funds and the broker court change effects revenue only after 12 months. But the quality of the business and the quantum of the business has made us very, very excited. We'll continue to grow this in a measured manner. Our tech platform here is extremely unique. It's a [ phygital ] platform. It is something which is set up to service clients between INR 20 crores to INR 25 crores as opposed to set up clients, which are purely online -- and we believe we have a good winning combination there. And over the next 12 to 24 months as we build this out, not only will we see assets coming, but we'll also see the revenue reflecting in our in profit and loss account. Secondly, obviously, we are -- we've got a large platform built with 361 capital. We made the acquisition on about 9 to 10 months back. Obviously, the firm was extremely strong on the equity side. And over the next 12 months, we will carefully pick up a very, very strong team on the banking side. It's a business which we are excited about, not purely because of the business alone, but largely because the wealth and the asset management business is an automatic feed out into the institutional business from a relationship perspective. At the end of the day, we would love to do business with the 10,000 families from a promoter base perspective or professional perspective, effectively, engage with us on all 3 sites. Obviously, those are the 10,000 families who can potentially give us wealth to manage. Those are the 10,000 families, we can provide capital at different phases of time and in different parts of the balance sheet, to our fund management side. And eventually, those are the 10,000 families, we can hopefully cater and build out the capital markets journey as they start out from small businesses and turn into large businesses. The second area is operational efficiency and productivity. Like pretty much every firm, we've grown in a very large way over the last 5 to 6 years. We need to continue to work hard to ensure that we are not only operationally efficient, but we are also extremely productive. I think in some ways, it shows up in our cost-to-income ratio, we still believe even outside the new businesses, we've built out at a cost-to-income ratio of 49% to 50%, it's something which we should be able to get down to 46% to 48%. And over the next 2 to 3 years, even though our core wealth and asset management business have remained very, very rigorously in the region of 44% to 45%. We strongly continue to work hard to ensure that our cost-to-income ratios move towards the 45% to 46% to 47% numbers, driven both by operational leverage and efficiency on the core businesses as well as improvement in the new businesses. A critical part of this efficiency agenda is obviously to have discipline on people costs. We managed our people extremely well. while at the top end, we've continued to be at the right range and more often than not about 90th percentile in terms of compensation. On the hiring side, today, we need to adjust to ensure that we hire not only the best quality people, but also ensure that the platform is extremely productive, where we are able to manage the new realities of AI together with the right amount of delivery on the talent side. With this, I come to the opportunity ahead, and this is obviously the most exciting part of our own journey over the next 10 odd years. I think the journey ahead on all 3 businesses, wealth, asset as well as capital markets and also lending remains superbly exciting. On the wealth management side, we really strongly believe we should be able to get to 12% to 15% of our opening AUM every year as net flows. It's a tall order, but we continue to work hard. Our brand, our ability to attract the right set of people grow our relationship managers and team leaders in a very measured manner by 10% to 15% every year allows us to grow our opening AUM by 12% to 15% every year. Needless to say, on an overall, not maybe on a quarterly or a yearly basis, mark-to-market of 10% to 12% definitely comes in. If I was to look back over the last 15 years, and we were just looking at some data, over the last 16 years, all our client portfolios have actually grown at 15.4% on a compounded yearly basis over the last 6 years. Hopefully, we are able to continue to give a performance, maybe not 15%. But in the new world order of some near number between 10% to 14%. But we are very confident that on a rolling basis, we will get a mark-to-market benefit of somewhere between the 10% to 12% to 14% and continued with an opening AUM growth of 12% to 14%, we should be able to grow our AUM on the wealth management side by 20% to 25% grow our relationship managers carefully by 25% to 30% every year over the next 3 to 4 years and effectively grow our profits on the wealth management side, by [ SIP ] 15% to 25%. On the asset management side, needless to say, I think the alternative industry continues to grow in a very, very big way. It's a business which is allowed us to differentiate allowed us to innovate, allowed us to take part in assets, which are -- which kind of come through in different parts of the balance sheet for the client. We're able to participate with him in his journey on the equity side. On the fixed income side, sometimes we are able to do innovative transactions on the yield plus side. And I'm extremely happy to say that -- if I look at all asset classes today, we've really dug deep -- and we have 15 to 20 investment professionals in each of these strategies, which allows us to really respond well in time and allows us to build a very, very fiduciary and a great relationship with clients. And we've been able to be on a few private equity funds, which have returned such a lot of money to clients over the last 5 to 6 years. We raised a fund which of nearly INR 500 crores, INR 6,000 crores in 2018/'19. The return the intended roundabout 1.2x and a net return of around about 16% over a short period of -- 16% compounded over a short period of 4 to 5 years. The mutual fund industry continues to do extremely well, needless to say. It's a power -- it's a compounding powerhouse. That's one of the areas where we potentially could do better. I think with the introduction of SIPs, I think that's, again, something which comes naturally to us. So that's again something which we are extremely excited about. We would love to do better on the mutual fund side, whereas emphasize and ensure that we have our clear leadership position maintained both on the wealth management side as well as on the alternate side. On the capital side, obviously, needless to say, like every business, the opportunity is tremendous, but we have 2 opportunities there. The first opportunity is obviously on the equity side, and equities for us as a firm for 361 for the wealth management side has not been the strongest part. I think we have a lot of opportunity there. I think, together with the 360 One Capital research team and our own ability to take that equity research to our wealth management clients. that revenue line item for us has been only INR 85 crores to INR 90 crores historically a year. I see that kind of doubling, if not tripling over the next 3 to 5 years as we add research. Combined with that, obviously, the 360 One Capital equities business was substantially well set up. That would also expand. And hopefully, we can see our equity and equity-related income without considering the banking income, nearly double over the next 3 to 4 years. The banking business is something which obviously, again, is a very, very services business and to get success in that, apart from relationships and apart from the ability to execute, we also need the best people. We are no hurry. We will build out our team in a very, very measured manner. We've got 12 super investment professionals to hire. We are pleased to announce nearly 4 out of those 12 are in place. And over the next 3 to 4 months, you would see us be substantially more competitive in the market with a very strong combination of the right sort of product execution capability, the right set of people and most importantly, the right platform and network to be able to succeed in that business. On the lending side, we've done extremely well. We've stuck to our discipline. We've got a support team, which has been with us and led the business from ground up since 2016, fast forward to a decade today. We've been able to run the business without a single rupee of NPA, single rupee of loss, we stuck to our core. The business we focused on is largely Lombard lending, largely portfolio lending to our wealth management clients. We've not got carried away. We've not got tempted, and that's allowed us to sustainably grow that business without any accidents and hopefully, no accidents to come in the future. All of this is an opportunity, and we've really enjoyed our journey for the last 18 years. Having said that, risks are always there and we need to ensure that we continue to manage these risks in an optimal way. First and most important, I think the biggest risk in India, and that's also the biggest opportunity is at all points of time, we need to roll up our sleeves and handle execution. And that's most important. I think as we keep building the team and today, we are 15 to 1,800 proud professionals, we need to ensure that we -- at all points of time, 24/7 are only doing one thing, ensuring there is a great amount of execution. Great amount of attention to detail and ensuring at all points of time, the right set of people, including our employers, including our employees, including our clients are able to get responses in the right point of time. We're investing heavily into middle management leadership depth. We are ensuring the organizations professionalized right from the top and ensuring at the very, very end, culture is reflected in everything we do. Not only in our product selection, but even in our client service. For us, all of this is coming together. India is at an inflection point. The macroeconomic foundations are extremely strong. The regulatory environment has been super supportive and the addressable market for wealth asset management alternatives and lending is expanding at a pace never seen before. We are happy to have the right set of brands, the people, partners, platform and the right levers to get a disproportionate share of this opportunity. We've been blessed to be a large port sprint in the market and have a large percentage of market share, and we only hope to be able to double our market share over the next 3 to 5 years. So with this, our trajectory is clear. And I'm -- we thank you again for being valuable shareholders. And thanks a lot for this call, and happy to take questions.
Anil Mascarenhas
Executives[Operator Instructions]. First in line we have Mohit Mangal.
Mohit Mangal
AnalystsCongratulations on a good set of numbers. I've got 3 questions. My first question is on the transactional income. So I think the transaction income, if you see, it was very strong at INR 230-odd crores in quarter 4. And even if I look at the presentation, the UHNI TBR was very strong at INR 177 crores -- so just wanted to understand the reasons for the same? And secondly, you earlier guided for around INR 125 crores to INR 130-odd crores per quarter. Is there an ideal way to look at TBR. Do you want to revise that number? That's question number one. Question number two, basically, if you look on the flow side, I think 1 of the area of the concern is the discretionary PMS on the AMC side. I think it has been getting outflows for the last few quarters. So what is our strategy to get back, especially on that segment? And lastly, I want you to -- if you could give some guidance on yields ex of carry over the next 2 to 3 years, do we kind of bake in some kind of a decline of 1 or 2 bps? Or do you think it will remain stable? Yes, those are my 3 questions.
Karan Bhagat
ExecutivesThank you, Mohit. So on the transaction brokerage revenue side, I think I think what's really helped us across multiple market cycles. And I always like to be conservative there because at the end of the day, those -- that's one part of revenue, which is not fully in our control. But I think what has really helped us and you've seen a lot of consistency come in, largely because of the fact that we are able to kind of play between asset classes. So obviously, in 1 quarter, it's fixed income, the other quarter, it's equity. And obviously, I think our enhanced kind of effort on improving both our fixed income brokerage, whereas equity brokerage is also kind of paying off. So I think overall, I'm kind of -- I would like to say, together with the Care Capital acquisition and 360 One Capital coming into place, it would be safe to say that INR 125 crores, INR 130 crores of quarterly TBR now today looks like closer to the INR 175, INR 180 crores of TBR for sure. obviously, needless to say, we would like to grow this towards the -- towards north of the 200 number. But as of now, I would feel much more comfortable over the INR 170 crore, INR 180 crore number as compared to INR 114 crore number in the past. On the discretionary PMS, I agree with you. I think the growth there has been slightly softer than what we would have wanted. I think that's kind of a little supplemented with the growth on the on the advisory side. But I think we're making certain set of changes there. And I think we need to -- I think in retrospect, we looked at that strategy in all honesty, as a slightly more relative return to the index kind of strategy more core. I think we would need to do slightly more active work there to kind of grow -- so I think a little bit of changes on the discretionary side. I think clients who have kind of looked upon at giving us a very custom build mandate have done extremely well, and they've continued to add AUM because they've kind of got the best out of our best of our advice. But where we've tried to do very, very benchmark hugging portfolios on the discretionary PMS side, that maybe has not really kind of worked out in the same way. But I think we kind of have pivoted our strategy a bit. We launched it somewhere in the first week of June. So I do expect those numbers to kind of move up a bit. On the third -- sorry, I just slip the third question.
Mohit Mangal
AnalystsYes. The yields so and carry.
Karan Bhagat
ExecutivesSo yield cash not too worried about. I think our accounting policy on carries quite conservative. I think what really helps us there is we've got it both time weighted, return weighted as well as hurdle guarded. So in some senses, every quarter, every half year, there is -- there might be a little bit of a variation quarterly, but early, I think it's safe to assume around about 10 to 14 basis points of our carryable AUM kind of gets accrued every year. Our carryable AUM of the overall alternate business would be around about 70%, 75%. And -- so today, give or take around about INR 300 crores, INR 25,000 crores would be broadly carriable. So of that around about, I would say, give or take, in a bad year 5 to 7 basis points and in a very good year, 12 to 15 basis points of carry is potentially going to accrue. So if you ask me today, but on the south side, around about INR 150 crores, INR 175 crores, and on the north side, on about INR 300 crores, INR 325 crores of carry is something which can kind of come in. So roundabout from a modeling perspective, I would say, approximately 10 basis points is the right number to look at. And obviously, we've got around about 85, 90 basis points coming out of the management fees on the alternate business. So around 95 to 100 basis points on alternates is the yield I would look at.
Anil Mascarenhas
ExecutivesNext in line, we have Prayesh Jain.
Prayesh Jain
AnalystsJust a few questions. Firstly, I'm just trying to read your outlook statement where you mentioned that your AUM growth will be about 20%, 25%. And RM addition if I got it right, would be 20%, 25% and -- you mentioned about PAT or profit growth to be like 15% to 25%. Just trying to read between the lines there, whether are we seeing -- are you talking about cost to income to be slightly on the higher side because of the hiring and that's kind of going to put some break on our profit growth related to the AUM or the -- or yield compression or whichever way you want to talk about it? That's one. Second is, when you talk about transactional revenues, B&K obviously will have the challenge of the in compression that we will get it from get from the mutual fund company from first April -- and in spite of that, would you still kind of stick to your guidance of about INR 175 crores to INR 200 crores kind of quarterly run rate? And third is how do you see the overall cost-to-income scenario for the company given the competitive environment, particularly on the RM hiring front, yes, those would be my questions.
Karan Bhagat
ExecutivesThank you. So I think all 3 fair questions, I think, obviously, all 3 are challenges we live on from a day-to-day basis. But to kind of just balance things out, I think it's fair to say that I think from a yield perspective, things are broadly in line. I'm not really kind of too worried about the about the yields. There will always be a certain degree of a certain degree of pressure. Similarly, on the relationship manager compensation side, ability to recruit people, invest in new businesses. I think they are all kind of phases in some ways. I think if I just look at the metrics stand-alone, and we do this all the time. I think if you very strongly look at the ultra high net worth business and the asset management business and kind of look at it ex of the 3 kind of acquisitions we did last year. So if I kind of exclude 360 One Capital, which was earlier B&K capital exclude IT money and exclude the UBS transaction both in terms of the flows, the money which came in and the money which gave out. I think on the core business, which is the alternate asset management business as well as the wealth sided business, I think we've done really well. I think our cost to income really remains in the region of the ZIP code of 44%, 45%, 46%, which I think is a superb number. And I think as we've seen a little bit of churn of teams as well as addition of new teams, and there's a passage of time where the older teams have become more productive and the newer teams are kind of getting to be productive. I think that model for us is very well solved. So I think our ability to get operating leverage there is fairly high. In fact, if you ask me today, I think it's a great opportunity to double down on our brand and attract the right set of wealth managers to our platform. In the industry in the phase of consolidation, and we are honestly not scared to kind of attract the right set of people and maybe take a call on building out another 25, 34, 35 relationship managers this year itself. And front-ending the growth a little bit. So on the wealth management side, very, very confident on our operating model. And I think compared to any other model in the country, I think we'll be able to plug in these relationship managers, the senior relationship managers into a system like our substantially faster. So honestly, I think outside of normal execution challenges on a business model perspective, I think I'm fairly confident on the ultra and network side. On the capital side, obviously, I think on an average, and the B&K business was operating in the ZIP code of the 5 to 6 basis points retention. So while there is a little bit of an impact, it's not an impact, which is very large for us to kind of dramatically change our quarterly numbers. I think it changes by around about 2% to 3% on a broad base of around about INR 200 crores, INR 225 crores. It's not really relevant in that sense. And I think there are some bit of synergy benefits even given to the institutional business, which come from which come from us kind of coming together, which more than offset that change. And on the equity side, as I said earlier, my confidence really in the TBR comes from the ability for us to kind of increase our own equities brokerage from our ultra high net worth clients. And the INR 175 crores to INR 200 crores number is not something, which is like cost and stone immediately. But I think to a number which is INR 125 crores to INR 140 crores comparable earlier. I think the INR 160 crores to INR 180 crores seems better right now. And lastly, I think from a from a relationship manager perspective, I think the war for talent is always there. But I think we are always going to be between the 90th to the tenth percentile I think depending on the talent advance it crosses tenth percentile, it becomes tougher even for us to kind of manage. And I think there are enough very, very smart relationship managers there. And they are very, very entrepreneurial. They know how to build their business. And they know it's a function of not only 110% like compensation, it's a function of the platform. And eventually, what they are able to do right by their clients, build their business in an efficient manner. At the same point, while delivering the best for the clients earn the maximum out of compensation. So I think that's really where it is. So honestly, I agree with you on all the 3 points, but they are the execution challenges, which allow us to kind of grow faster than the industry.
Anil Mascarenhas
ExecutivesNext line, we have Abhijeet Sakhare.
Abhijeet Sakhare
AnalystsThe detailed opening remarks very useful. So I had an industry question, Karen. So the overall outlook on the ultra HNI business seems like extremely positive from a 3- to 5-year time frame. So I'm just trying to tie in a few statements. One is that whether the industry you believe will remain in a consolidation mode over the next few years? And secondly, like 1 would assume that such a nice good growth potential 1 would kind of assume that it would tend to get more competitive, right? I think in the past, you said that the ultra-HNI space clearly has placed for 1 or 2 more players, right, beyond the top -- so I'm just trying to kind of connect the dots here to kind of get a perspective on how you're thinking about the growth here? And the to 15% opening AUM number that you mentioned. Do you believe it has certain risks of once in a while, you have these situations where like one-off addition or a large attrition, which tends to kind of throw off the numbers a little bit, given that the state of the industry still seems quite strong, right, in terms of growth outlook?
Karan Bhagat
ExecutivesNo, which great questions. So I think to me, honestly, I think the 12% to 15% seems doable. I think it's something which, obviously, as the size increases, it becomes a bigger challenge. But I think honestly, we're in early days and our own assessment of our market share is somewhere between the 8% to 10% number. I obviously, are not able to estimate it to the full best possibility. But I think we would be in the 8% to 10% when we look at our 4,500 odd families above INR 10 crores with us. I personally feel we had the ability to increase that to 8,000 to 10,000 families, which gets us closer to the 12% to 15% market share. And I think if you move towards the 8,000 to 10,000 families on a bottom-up basis, I think that 12% to 15% AUM kind of comes through. Do we have the middle to the top management layer on the wealth management side to attract these relationship managers? I think the answer is yes. And that kind of leads me into one aspect to the question which you were asking whether -- how consolidated does the industry stay. I think that's a real, real great question. And honestly, I think -- it's fair to say that the size of the industry does require at least 3 potentially can have 3, 4 more larger players. Having said that, I think, obviously, it's in -- like in most industries, size, bigger size. So I think in some ways, it will require somebody to kind of we have a strong commercial mindset, put in a large amount of capital as well as potentially kind of attract the right set of people to be able to kind of build it out quicker. I personally I'm actually a little surprised and honestly, positively surprised. I think the industry continues to remain fairly consolidated. I think it stays this way over the next 3 to 4 years. Will there be a couple of more players? I'm sure there will be. But I think our own -- in terms of comfort, brand, ability to attract people never felt more comfortable. And I think that gives us a fairly good position. And I think overall, a tighter market helps us consolidate faster. And I think while I hear you on the attrition point, I think that continues to be a risk. But honestly, I think with God square, we built a lot of -- we built a very diversified business. And our team, if you see today also continues to go, I think more than 60%, 65% of the team would have spent more than 8, 9 years with us. So I think, in general, it's a platform where people like to work, people like to invest in time, people like pulled on. And I think we balance our time very well between learning and ensuring that we're able to give the right value to our clients. And if I was to look back at the last 6 months or rather last April to now, and it is one thing I would say is our biggest achievement for the last 12 months is the kind of talent we were attracted on the wealth management side, both in markets like Delhi, Bangalore, where we had some attrition as well as in Bombay. I think we've attracted some super relationship managers in all the 3 places, and that's really kind of made us much more resilient than ever before and similarly on the investment side. So I feel quite confident. And while, obviously, we don't want attrition by any margin. I think we have to be prepared for 2% to 4% attrition every year.
Abhijeet Sakhare
AnalystsAnd just one more question. I think in the past, you mentioned that typically, in a given year, almost 50% of flows come from new client additions. So I just wanted to understand like in a period where like the RM competition intensity is very strong. How does that kind of play out with respect to your market share between flows from existing clients versus new clients?
Karan Bhagat
ExecutivesNo, I think Abhijeet, it's a challenge always. But to be honest, I think we've been beneficiaries, okay? So I would say net addition to high-quality relationship managers for us has been a positive. So I'm honestly not complaining in that sense. But it's obviously a risk. I think it's eventually a last-mile business. So our ability to attract the right set of talent and ensure that we -- it's -- I would say, it has to follow an order, right? So if you need 10,000 families, we need 20, 30 super bankers. All bankers at any point of time won't have 35 relationships. So some of them would not be phenomenally productive. So maybe average will be closer to 30. So you need 325, super bankers? Is it easy to go from 180, 200 senior bankers to 330. The answer is no. But if there is any platform which can do that and attract those right sort of people, it's really us. And honestly, I think we see that ability to do that in the next 12 to 18 months. And like I said earlier, I think our own business model, understanding of the business on the ultra-high network side, we feel very confident to be able to move from that 200 to 300 number because we've got operating efficiencies of scale. And I think there will be some challenges along the way. There will be some attrition, some competition, some outsized compensation. But honestly, I think as long as the star path keep our heads down, I think we can move from the 200 to 300, 325 bankers.
Anil Mascarenhas
ExecutivesNext on line, we have Gaurav Jain.
Unknown Analyst
AnalystsCongratulations on a steady set of numbers. Just 2 data keeping kind of questions from my side. One is, and not so if you've already said, but what is this delta and TBR that we basically saw in Q4, if you can help us understand which particular the sector line item held in this quarter, that will be helpful. And second is since it is first year of completion of the LP post acquisition, not cool completion, but major completion. So key headline numbers of [ BPSA ] operating revenue, other income and path will be really helpful?
Karan Bhagat
ExecutivesGaurav, I'll kind of give you some broad numbers. I'll start with the second and then come back to your first question. So broadly, I think B&K numbers have been very, very steady for the last for the last 10 months as compared to the year previous to that. I think broadly speaking, we had a INR 230 crores to INR 250 crores top line, INR 220 crores to INR 250 crores top line in the year previous. We've been broadly around that range, in fact, added around about 6% to 7%, largely driven by early integration on the corporate treasury platform, where some of our large wealth management clients with large corporate treasuries have kind of got introduced to the B&K platform and slight market share gain on the equity side. From a PBT perspective, also pretty much in line B&K had a PPT or at the point of acquisition over approximately INR 100 crores, INR 105 crores. This year, we'll finish in the region, ballpark region of INR 105 crores to INR 110 crores before any specific acquisition-related costs. So overall, I think those are the broad numbers on the B&K side. So largely steady year, potentially an increase of 3% to 4% on the overall business. But we need to remember our approvals and so on and so forth for B&K Capital to become 360 One Capital as well as common research and stuff like that, it's happened only maybe in the last 15 to 20 days. So it's really integration kind of hopefully all benefits start coming in soon enough. Obviously, team's culture all is integrated, but just ensuring that businesses can also kind of get integrated as fast as possible. On the first point, sorry, I forgot the...
Unknown Analyst
AnalystsIt was on TBR Karan... .
Karan Bhagat
ExecutivesNo, no, sorry, it was your advisory AUM. What are the heads. So largely on the Advisory, I think on the net flows, approximately INR 9,000 core to INR 1,000 crores on net flows. It's a mix largely of advisory, a little bit on product distribution and largely on the asset management side. Asset management side is around about INR 20 crores, INR 2,500 crores. advisories in the region ballpark of INR 4000 crores, INR 4,500 crores INR or INR 5,000 crores and the net amount coming from distribution assets would be the balancing amount of 20 crores, INR 2,500 crores, including the lending book. So that's the broad split of INR 9,500 crores. On the -- on the delta versus quarter 3, it's largely, as I said earlier, it's a mix of asset classes. So I think board we've done extremely well on Q4 in terms of equity, in terms of asset classes has been combination of fixed income, some bit of REITs and invites and potentially a couple of transactions on the high-yielding fixed income side.
Unknown Analyst
AnalystsAt just one last question, Karen, we saw some brokers taking some stress on the MTF book given the volatility in Q4, was there any stress or anything that you saw in your lending book where you were uncomfortable or was it everything under control in spite of the volatility in bullion...
Karan Bhagat
ExecutivesSo we don't have any margin funding book yet. So our margin funding book is less than INR 50 crores, INR 60 crores, I think. So we really don't have a margin funding book because as a broker, we really don't do -- on our lending book, which is largely a loan against shares book which is collateralized at 2x typically on a diversified portfolio, we're not -- fortunately, we've not seen any stress at all.
Anil Mascarenhas
ExecutivesNext in line, we have Dipanjan Ghosh.
Dipanjan Ghosh
AnalystsSo 2 questions from my side. We in terms of the incremental clients that you're onboarding on the platform and versus, let's say, what you are onboarding 5 to 6 years back, -- some color on differences in quality of the customer, ticket size, whether these are individuals or family offices. I mean has there been any change in this mix and in this context, I mean, do you see any differentiation that you need to create on either servicing or products? Or maybe is there a wallet share division, which is far higher in these new customers such as like in customers, some color on the customer quality would be helpful. The second question is you kind of articulated on the carry income map in one of the previous participants questions -- if you can kind of kind of give some color on the funds that are in the pipeline for exit for the next 2 to 3 years? And whether you are comfortably over the hurdle expectations in those funds. And if you can just walk through the math in a little bit detail, I mean, that will be really helpful because we don't get access to some of these -- on the public domain. And third would be a data keeping question. In terms of your ARR assets, if you can kind of set the growth now for the quarter and full year.
Karan Bhagat
ExecutivesSo gross growth for the.
Dipanjan Ghosh
AnalystsFor the ARR active ARR assets and the wealth segment. And also on the AUM, basically the gross sales because we get the net new money number -- so.
Karan Bhagat
ExecutivesGot it. okay. So that I'll have to just depend on Sanjay or Anshuman for. So I'll just for the gross close numbers, but I can answer the first 2 questions by the time the can look at the gross close numbers. But obviously, on the mutual fund side, looking at the gross close on help because they'll have liquid funds and debt funds and stuff like that. But on the autoletside, I think the gross flows will definitely help. So Sanjay, maybe you can just pull it on -- on the incremental plant on platform quality plans, obviously, I think it's a great question. I think the type of clients have become much more broader and the depth is also increased today. There is obviously -- I won't call it a new kind of client, but a much more sophisticated client, which is the family office. It would be safe to say there are 3350 such family offices across the country were substantially more sophisticated, we are able to take decisions faster. We're able to cut much larger checks. And most importantly, we're not willing to participate with us pretty much as partners across the entire platform. rather than just coming rather than just kind of allocating us INR 100 and say, kind of just manage it on a portfolio advisory basis. So that class of clients maybe would have been maybe 40, 50, maybe 5 years back, today, definitely, that number is close to 400 to 500, odd 400 to 500 clients. Outside of that, I think, generally speaking, our client base has become slightly on the Ultra in sizes become slightly larger in terms of average AUM. And that's largely a function of the fact that it's a portfolio-based approach as opposed to a product approach. So most of our relationship managers by onboarding the clients will talk about asset allocation, product selection, not ensuring more than 25% on a single product, not ensuring more than 15% in a single asset manager. So it's a much more richer discussion on the portfolio as opposed to the product. And that obviously kind of moves the minimums up slightly more. So from from a client segmentation perspective, I think a portfolio-based approach as opposed to a product-based approach is leading to a slightly higher ticket size. And third, I think there's much more diversity of clients from a background and geography perspective. I think geography is obviously substantially more diverse as compared to the first 6 cities. And background also is much more diverse. I think it's not fair to say professionals and professional entrepreneurs are nearly 15% to 20% of the client base. And the same number used to be 5% to 10%. And in that sense, I think whether you look at companies which have been started by professionals and professionals on anywhere number between 2.5% to 10% plus corporate lawyers, plus plus movie stars and Bollywood professionals as well as sports people. So overall, I think the client and even doctors, right? So I think overall, the length and breadth of professionals have increased diversification family offices are deep. And obviously, I think what we need to work on, again, maybe 1 of our weaker areas, but we need to work hard on getting more participation from domestic institutions and insurance companies. which have become key contributors to alternative investment funds. Second, obviously, I think on the ARR assets, have you got the numbers, Sanjay, broadly?
Sanjay Wadhwa
ExecutivesFor AMC, the gross flow for the quarter is around INR 500 crores INR -- and for the full year, it is 19,000.
Karan Bhagat
ExecutivesYes. So we had actually -- so we had a great quarter on the asset management side in terms of flows. It's nearly INR 5,200 crores. But we also had 3 funds on the 1 large fund on the credit side, which came up for maturity, which was nearly INR 15 or 17 crores 1 of our real estate funds came up from maturity, which was INR 850-odd crores. And I think we have a distribution from 1 of our private equity funds with the 2021 vintage. o. So that basically resulted in a net outflow of around about INR 20, INR 500 crores, INR 2,600 crores, which has resulted in the INR 5,300 crores coming down to the INR 2,300 crores, INR 2,400 crores.
Dipanjan Ghosh
AnalystsAnd Karen, maybe on the carry data if you can...
Karan Bhagat
ExecutivesYes, sorry. In the carry basically, I think -- so I think I'll give the operating principles, and I'll leave it to Sanjay to figure out how to maybe potentially give a list of funds and AUM, date of maturity because it's all there in the public domain. Maybe we can just compile it and put it in the data book as 1 Excel document -- but at an operating philosophy level, obviously, I think we want to -- in a very conservative and simple way to explain it. We typically start looking at carry only once the fund has met the hurdle for the entire life of the fund. -- okay, that's really when the carry kind of starts kicking in. So it's a 5-year front-of 6-year fund, it effectively has to beat the carry for the entire time period and only then does the fund become carryable in any way. And once the fund becomes carriable, obviously, we take a slight bit of a discount in terms of market values and stuff like that and then start accounting for it. So at the simplest level, it's not as if -- we are measuring the fund after 1 year and it has to meet the hurdle after 1 year and then we start accounting for Kari. It has to meet the hurdle for the entire lifetime lifetime of the fund and only then it kind of comes into carry. So I would say outside of large market variations, the carry which we are carrying is quite quite conservative within range. In terms of an overall fund list and broad maturity dates and so on and so forth. And maybe just to comment whether the fund is a carry fund or a fixed fee fund, maybe Sanjay can put it up on excel.
Sanjay Wadhwa
ExecutivesSure, Karen, if I can just slip in 1 small question on the UBS page where you gave some color -- in terms of referrals, how has been the traction? Any initial data point? And also your product on UBS's AMC's platform and a new AMC product on their platform. When can we expect some things on those lines -- that's all from my side.
Karan Bhagat
ExecutivesSo I think, to be honest, that's been slightly slower. It's more not from a desire to do it. I think both of us want to do it as fast as possible. I think just from a regulatory approval process both in gift as well as us on the UBS platform, I think it's taken slightly longer. But hopefully, we'll see it happen over the next quarter or so.
Anil Mascarenhas
ExecutivesNext in line, in the interest of time, request you to kindly restrict yourself to not more than 2 questions. Next in line, we have Siddharth.
Unknown Analyst
AnalystsA few questions from my end. On a quarter-on-quarter basis, we've seen net flows sort of coming down which, say, in another case with obviously a more retail brokerage have remained more or less steady. So would you say that's been more attrition led or clients putting out money? Or is it more avoidance of deployment given the volatile situation? That was question number one. Question number two, which you've sort of spoken about the whole DPMS flows, right? On the other hand, there is a sharp price in the retentions, both on the wealth and the asset management side, specifically for the discretionary PMS, right? Is that more a function of new money coming in at higher retentions? Or is it more the older sort of lower-priced AUM going out? And how are you seeing this from an outpricing risk, right, given that especially on the asset management side, obviously, there is that competitive intensity. And the third question was -- if you could give us some color on the distribution assets where the net flow is a negative number, but how much of that is the net flow from UHNI given that HNI would obviously have net positive cash flows. So distribution assets from UHNI what's the net negative net flow. Yes, these were my 3 questions.
Karan Bhagat
ExecutivesAnil, do you want to just take the next question also and then answer together.
Anil Mascarenhas
ExecutivesWe have Nidesh on the line. Nidhesh, you'll have to unmute yourself and ask your question, then we can just take it together.
Nidhesh Jain
AnalystsI have 2 questions. One is -- if you can share the breakup of 3B income in terms of listed equity, indeed equity construction equity debt and others for the quarter. Second is, if I look at team leader count and Arcot -- in last 3 years, the team data count is broadly stable. And I think in the RM count also, there have been addition on the HI team. So UHNI team in count may be stable. So though our client base has gone up. So how are we managing a span of each -- and how we plan to, let's say, scale the team leader from a next 3- to 5-year perspective? given that it is intense competition. And last 3 years also, the account has been broadly flat. These are the 2 questions. Got it. So I think I'll start with the questions earlier.
Karan Bhagat
ExecutivesSo I think, broadly speaking, on the ARR asset side, I think very tough to -- on the net flow side, where as I indicated before, very tough to look at it on a Q-on-Q basis. But typically, we have a good site on a yearly basis. Obviously, I think not strictly comparable to a brokerage platform. But I think on a yearly basis, with some variations on a Q-on-Q basis, I think we hope to be around the 10% to 12% to 14% kind of range. And we've typically seen quarters have a little bit of a variation obviously onboarding cycles are different. Clients take sometimes a little bit longer to kind of onboard. So typically kind of sometimes businesses passes on from 1 quarter to the other in terms of quarterly flows. -- really nothing significant between Q3, Q4 in terms of decline. And I wouldn't read too much into increase in flows also. It's more or less a quarterly deviation as opposed to a trend there. The DPMs retention, again, there's no trend there. I think Q4 typically has a bit of a profit share, and that kind of has led to a little bloated amount of retention on a very, very small base. So again, on the discretionary PMS side, pretty much within the standards and retentions continue to remain within the range. And I think it gets kind of uniform on a yearly basis as opposed to just looking at Q4 itself. Largely, distribution assets is not really a large function of negative net flows. It's largely a little bit of an extent of mark-to-market, which obviously has resulted in a low -- slightly lower trail income as compared to as compared to last quarter. On the TBR income split, I'll kind of give a broader level split, which is what we disclosed. I think broadly around about 20%, 25% is, give or take, INR 60 crores to INR 80 crores comes from largely a combination of listed and listed related equity. Half of that largely coming from private -- private equity investment banking, M&A activities. And on both comes from largely fixed income and fixed income yield plus and real estate. So it is broadly a [indiscernible] between these 3 asset classes. On the team leader, RM count, it's a great question. I think very rightly pointed out, I think we've been at 750 or 70 to 75 senior leaders at at scale over the last 3-odd years, where we really, I think, improved is our ratio to senior leaders to relationship managers. I think on the ultra in network side, we want to kind of have our minimum recruitment benchmark to what we call as the partner equivalent. So effectively, it should have added at least 6 to 7 or maybe 8 years of experience in a retail priority set up. And that's really where that becomes, in some senses are our entry level into the ultra high net worth business. And I think that's really where I think we've kind of seen a good change in mix, I would say, a healthy change in mix. We've been able to optimize the number and make it a much more productive number as compared to what we had earlier. But not only that, our average talent pool on the partner base is substantially better than what we had 5 years back. So it's both a quality improvement as well as a quantity optimization. And I think with the quality improvement, there's automatic adjustment and span of control. So we're very happy with where we are today. Having said that, obviously, we need to move that 75% number, as I said earlier, to potentially 120, 130 and potentially improve the 110, 120 partner level to and effectively take our current count of 180 to 190 to INR 330, 340.
Nidhesh Jain
AnalystsWhat is the count of RM in the HNI segment as of March '26.
Karan Bhagat
ExecutivesOn a closing basis.
Unknown Analyst
AnalystsKaren, just a follow-up on the net -- the DPMs net flows, maybe I'm reading this wrong, but from what it shows here -- on the wealth side, the BPMS has a net negative net flow of INR 212 crores for distribution assets. So is that including the MTM? Or is that net negative flows? Net flows in.
Karan Bhagat
ExecutivesWithout MTO.
Unknown Analyst
AnalystsSo then how much of that would be net negative for H&I and how much of it would be, I'm assuming HNI is obviously positive because that'd be a very small base?
Karan Bhagat
ExecutivesLargely, INR 212 crores would be to only.
Sanjay Wadhwa
ExecutivesCurrent corporate treasury, which has contributed to the negative number this quarter.
Unknown Analyst
AnalystsGot it.
Anil Mascarenhas
ExecutivesThank you. I think that's all we have time for today. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us this.
Karan Bhagat
ExecutivesThank you. Thank you, everybody. Thanks for all the effort.
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