360 One Wam Limited

360 One Wam Limited

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Q4 FY2026 · Earnings Call TranscriptApril 21, 2026

Sanjay Wadhwa

A very good evening to all the participants. FY26 has been a landmark year for 360 ONE, one in which we have delivered strong financial outcomes and also meaningfully expanded the platform to complete our flywheel.

Our core tenets—growth, resilience, and agility—have once again been validated in a year that tested markets and businesses alike. FY26 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, markets witnessed 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. A progressive regulatory environment continues to strengthen transparency, investor confidence, and long-term capital formation.

Let me turn to the numbers now. Our total ARR AUM increased to 311,940 crores, up 26% year-on-year, with wealth ARR AUM at 216,000 crores and asset management ARR AUM at 95,000 crores.

Total AUM stood at 6.7 lakh crores as on March 2026, 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 FY26 are at 55,875 crores. Of this, even if we exclude the acquisition-related outflows, the organic FY26 net flows rose 36% to 35,199 crores, representing 14% of our opening AUM.

Within this, net flows on wealth were 25,900 crores and asset management at 9,299 crores, reflecting robust momentum from our core UHNI franchise, maturing contribution from newly onboarded teams, and demand across all asset classes within asset management. FY26 ARR revenue stood at 2,289 crores, up 34.5% YoY, and ARR revenue now comprising 75% of total revenue from operations.

Q4 FY26 ARR revenue was at 605 crores, up 20.4% YoY. 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 777 crores for the full year and ₹230 crores for Q4, up 30— up 53.7% YoY. The strong Q4 numbers partly reflect the full-quarter consolidation of 360 ONE Capital, the institutional equities business, formerly known as BNK Securities, whose broking revenue adds a structurally more consistent, annuity-like component to what is historically been a more transactional revenue stream.

Total revenue increased 18.6% to 3,144 crores for FY26. Q4 revenue was ₹780 crores, up 18.5% YoY, driven by strong growth across both wealth and asset verticals, partially offset by lower other income.

On costs, FY26 total costs stood at 1,568 crore. These are not directly comparable to FY25 due to consolidation of BNK Securities and ET Money.

FY26 cost to income stood at 49.9%. However, cost to total operating income stood at around 50% as against 49.5% during the previous quarter.

The UHNI wealth and asset management cost-to-income ratios remain 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 336 crores. We believe that we have duly 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 or 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 highest full-year PAT in FY26 of 1,225 crores, an increase of 20.7%. Tangible ROE stood at 19.3%, and we expect this to improve as capital is deployed in our lending and alternate businesses begin to reflect in earnings.

The board has approved first interim dividend of ₹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 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 RM productivity in the coming year, we would expect the overall financial performance of this segment to improve significantly. On ET Money, FY26 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 break-even in the near term. The integration of BNK 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 opened distribution and lending channels.

Our investment banking platform is being built out, and we expect it 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's global distribution providing a pathway for our alternate and listed strategies to access offshore capital. As we look towards FY27 and beyond, we remain confident despite ongoing volatility.

Over 18 years, we have navigated multiple challenging cycles guided by steadfast focus on fundamentals and an 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 Karan for his comments.

Operator

Over to you, Karan. Please give us a minute while Karan joins in.

Karan Bhagat

Thank you, Sanjay. Thank you everyone for logging into the call, and good evening, everybody.

Given the fact that this is a year-end call, I'll 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. Good evening, everyone.

Today, I wanted to talk through four things: where we see number one, the markets 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 set the 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 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— our most important client set, the ultra-high-net-worth individual and the operating businesses, continue to do substantially well.

We have 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've 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's taken decades to build, and it compounds over time, and much like the portfolios we manage, and we continue to protect our brand with as much zealousness as possible. Secondly, we've become the platform where we are able to attract the best quality people.

Eventually, our business is a relationship-driven business. Caliber of our teams and sum 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're trusted advisors 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 into portfolio performance.

Over the last 5 years, we've built deep teams which have navigated multiple market cycles, and their disciplined, research-driven approach is a core reason why clients stay with 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, entrepreneurial 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 clients access to best-in-class investment opportunities across multiple asset classes. Our shelf remains curated, it's not crowded.

We recommend— 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 alternates 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, on fifth fifth rather, not lastly, fifth, I think diversification for us has been superb. We are not a one-product firm, and most importantly, we are not even a one-asset-class firm, and that has enabled us to ride 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've 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 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 a it's not only something which is a challenge, but it also is an opportunity because it allows us to make a make a 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 cleaner manner, and most importantly, with real-time insights.

On the investment sides, our fund managers can be substantially more productive. They are 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 six 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 three 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's done a phenomenal job in raising close to 3, 3.5 thousand 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 code change affects revenue only after 12 months.

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 extremely unique. It's a phygital platform.

It is something which is set up to service clients between 2 to 25 crores as opposed to setup clients which are purely online. 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 our profit and loss account.

Secondly, obviously, we've bought a large we've got a large platform built with 360 ONE Capital. We made the acquisition around about 9 to 10 months back.

Obviously, the 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 feeder 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 who from a who from a promoter-based perspective or professional perspective effectively engage with us engage with us on all three sides. Obviously, those 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 their balance sheet through our fund management side, and eventually, those are the 10,000 families we can hopefully cater and build out their capital markets journey as they start out from small businesses and turn on to 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 ratios. 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%.

Over the next 2 to 3 years, even though our core wealth and asset management business have remained very, very 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 in 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've managed our people extremely well. While at the top end we've continued to be at the right right right range, and more often than not above 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 of of our own journey over the next 10-odd years. I think the the journey ahead on all three 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 16 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%.

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 15 to 25%. On the asset management side, needless to say, I think the alternates industry continues to grow in a very, very big way.

It's it's it's a it's a business which is allowed us to differentiate, allowed us to innovate, allowed us to take part in assets which are which are which which kind of come through in different parts of the balance sheet for the firm for the 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 on the on the yield-plus side. I'm extremely happy to say that, we've if I look at all asset classes, today we've really dug deep, and we have 15 to 20 investment professionals on 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.

We've been able to we are one of the 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 was nearly 5.5, 6,000 crores in 2018-19.

We returned the entire fund at around about 1.8, 2 times and a gross 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 it's a it's a 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 SIFs, I think that's again something which comes naturally to us. That's again something which we are extremely excited about.

We would love to do better on the 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 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 two opportunities there.

The first opportunity is all obviously on the equity side, and equities for us as a firm for 360 ONE from the wealth management side has not been the strongest fort. 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 85 to 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 the 360 ONE Capital equities business was substantially well set up. That would also expand, and hopefully, we can see a 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 in 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 set of product, the 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 super team which has been with us and led the led the business from ground ground up.

Since 2016, fast forward to a decade today, we've been able to run the business without a single rupee of single rupee of NPA, single rupee of loss. We stuck to our core.

The business we focused on is is largely Lombard lending, largely portfolio lending to our 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 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. 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 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 employ including our employees, including our clients, are able to get responses in the right right right point of time.

We're investing heavily into middle management leadership depth. We are ensuring the organization is 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 brand, the people, partners, platform, and the right levers to get a disproportionate share of this opportunity. We've been blessed to be a large participant 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.

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.

Operator

Thank you, Karan. In case you wish to ask any questions, request you to kindly tap on the raise hand icon.

First in line, we have Mohit Mangal. Kindly unmute yourself and ask your question.

Mohit Mangal

Yeah. Thanks for the opportunity, and congratulations on a good set of numbers.

I have three questions. My first question is on the transactional income.

I think the transactional income, if you see, it was very strong at 230-odd crores in quarter 4, and even if I look at the presentation, the UHNI TBR was very strong at 177 crores. Just wanted to understand the reasons for the same.

Secondly, you earlier guided for around 125 to 130-odd crores per quarter is 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 one of the area of the concern is the discretionary PMS on the AMC side.

I think it is getting outflows for the last few quarters. What is our strategy to get back, especially on that segment?

Lastly, 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?

Those are my three questions.

Karan Bhagat

Thank you, Mohit. On the transaction brokerage revenue side, 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, that's one part of revenue which is not fully in our control.

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. Obviously, in one 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 as well as equity brokerage is also kind of paying off.

I think overall, I would like to say, together with the BNK Capital acquisition and 360 ONE Capital coming into place, it would be safe to say that 125, 130 crores of quarterly TBR now today looks closer to the 175, 180 crores of TBR for sure. Obviously, needless to say, we would like to grow this towards north of the 200 number, but as of now, I would feel much more comfortable about a 160 170, 180 crore number as compared to 130, 140 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 little supplemented with the growth on the advisory side, but I think we're making certain set of changes there, and 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 the AUM.

I think a little bit of changes on the discretionary side. I think clients who've kind of looked upon at giving us a very custom-built mandate have done extremely well, and they've continued to add AUM because they've kind of got the best of our advice.

Where we've tried to do very, very benchmark-hugging portfolios on the discretionary PMS side, that maybe is not really kind of worked out in the same way. I think we kind of have pivoted our strategy a bit.

We'll launch it somewhere in the first week of June, I do expect those numbers to kind of move up a bit. On the third, sorry, I just slipped the third question.

Mohit Mangal

The yields ex of carry.

Karan Bhagat

Yields ex of carry actually are not to worry about. I think our accounting policy on carry is quite conservative.

I think what really helps us there is we've got it both time-weighted, return-weighted, as well as hurdle-guarded. In some senses, every quarter every half year there might be a little bit of variation quarterly, but yearly, 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 alternates business would be round about 70, 75%. Today, give or take, round about 30, 35,000 crores would be broadly carryable.

Of that, round 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. If you ask me today, round about on the south side, round about 150, 175 crores, and on the north side, round about 300, 325 crores of carry is something which can kind of come in.

Round about from a modeling perspective, I would say, approximately 10 basis points is the right number to look at, and you obviously got round about 85, 90 basis points coming out of the management fees on the alternates business. Round about 95 to 100 basis points on alternates is the yield I would look at.

Mohit Mangal

Understood. Thanks, and wish you all the best for financial year '27.

Karan Bhagat

Thank you, Mohit.

Operator

Thank you. Next in line, we have Paresh Jain.

Paresh, kindly unmute and ask your question.

Paresh Jain

Hey, hi, Karan. There's 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 15 to 25%. Just trying to read between the lines there whether 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 pressure on your profit growth relative to the AUM or yield compression or whichever way you want to talk about it.

That's one. Second is, when you talk about transactional revenues, BNK obviously will have the challenge of the yields compression that we will get from the mutual fund companies from 1st April, and in spite of that, would you still kind of stick to your guidance of about 175 to 200 crore kind of quarterly run rate?

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? Those would be my questions.

Thanks.

Karan Bhagat

Thank you. Also, I think all three fair questions, and I think, obviously, all three are challenges we live on from a day-to-day basis.

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 yields.

There will always be 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 standalone, and we do this all the time, I think if we very strongly look at the ultra-high-net-worth business and the asset management business and kind of look at it ex of the three three kind of acquisitions we did last year. If I kind of exclude 360 ONE Capital, which was earlier BNK Capital, exclude ET 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 management business, I think we've done really well.

I think our cost to income remains in the region of the zip code of 44, 45, 46%, which I think is a superb number. 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.

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.

I think the industry is in a phase of consolidation, and we're honestly not scared to kind of attract the right set of people and maybe take a call on building out another 25, 30, 35 relationship managers this year itself and front-ending the growth a little bit. 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 ours substantially faster.

Honestly, I think, outside of normal execution challenges on a business model perspective, I think I'm fairly confident on the ultra-high-net-worth side. On the capital side, obviously, I think the BNK business was operating in the zip code of the 5 to 6 basis points retention.

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 round about 200, 225 crores.

It's not really relevant in that sense. I think there are some bit of synergy benefits even to the institutional business which come from us kind of coming together, which more than offsets that change.

On the equity side, as I said earlier, my confidence really on 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 175 to 200 crore number is not something which is cast in stone immediately, but I think to a number which was 125 to 140 comparable earlier, I think the 160 to 180 seems a better right now. Lastly, I think from a relationship manager perspective, I think the war for talent is always there, but I think we're always going to be between the 90th to the 110th percentile.

I think, depending on the talent, once it crosses the 110th percentile, it becomes tough even for us to kind of manage. 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 percentile compensation, but it's a function of the platform. Eventually, what they are able to do right by the clients, build their business in an efficient manner, and at the same point, while delivering the best for the clients, earn the maximum amount of compensation.

I think that's really where it is. Honestly, I agree with you on all the three points, but they are execution challenges which allow us to kind of grow faster than the industry.

Paresh Jain

Got that. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you, Paresh. Next in line, we have Abhijeet Sakhare.

Abhijeet, kindly unmute yourself and ask your question.

Abhijeet Sakhare

Hey, hi. Good evening, everyone.

Thanks, Karan, for the detailed opening remarks. Very useful.

I had an industry question, Karan. The overall outlook on the ultra-HNI business seems extremely positive from a 3 to 5-year timeframe.

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, one would assume that for the growth potential, one 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 a place for one or two more players, right, beyond the top. 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.

The 12 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 one-off attrition 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

No, Abhijeet, great questions. I think to me, honestly, I think the the 12 to 15% seems seems doable.

I think it's a it's something which, obviously, as the size increases, it becomes a big it becomes bigger challenge. I think, honestly, we are in early days, and, our own assessment of our market share is somewhere between the 8 to 10% number.

I I obviously, we're 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 4.5 thousand-odd families above 10 crores with us. I personally feel we had the ability to increase that to 8 to 10,000 families, which gets us closer to the 12 to 15% market share, and I think if we move towards the 8 to 10,000 families on a bottom-up basis, I think that 12 to 15% AUM kind of comes through.

Do we have the the middle to the top management layer on the wealth management side to attract these relationship managers? I think the answer is yes.

That kind of leads me into one aspect of the question which you are asking, whether, how consolidated does the does the industry stay. I think that's a real real real great question, and honestly, I think it's fair to say that the size of the industry does require at least three, four, potentially can have three, four more larger players.

Having said that, I think obviously it's in like in most industries, size begets size. I think in some ways in some ways, it will it will require it will require somebody to kind of, with the 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 to be able to kind of build it out quicker.

I personally am 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. I think our own our own in terms of comfort, brand, ability to attract people never felt more comfortable.

I I think that that gives us a that gives us a fairly good position. I think I think overall, a tighter market helps us consolidate faster, and I I think while while I hear you on the on the on the attrition point, I think that continues to be a risk, but honestly, I think we've we've, with God's grace, we built a lot of a we built a very diversified business.

Our our team if you see today also continues to, I think more than 60, 65% of our team would have spent more than 8, 9 years with us. I think I think in general, it's a platform where people like to work, people like to invest their time, people like to learn, and I think we balance our time very well between between learning and and ensuring that we are able to give the right right value to our clients.

If I was to look back at the last 6 months or rather last April to now, and if there's one thing I would, say is our biggest achievement for the last 12 months is the kind of talent we've 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 three in all the three in all the three places, and that's really kind of made us much more resilient than ever ever before, and similarly on the on the on the investment side. I I feel quite quite confident, and while obviously, we don't we don't want attrition by any margin, I think we have to be prepared for 2 to 4% attrition every year.

Abhijeet Sakhare

Thanks, Karan. Just one more question.

I think in the past you've mentioned that typically in a given year, almost 50% of flows come from new client additions. I just wanted to understand in a period where 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

I think, Abhijeet, it's a challenge always, but to be honest, I think we've been beneficiaries, okay? I would say net net addition to high-quality relationship managers for us has been a positive, I'm honestly not complaining in that sense.

It's obviously a risk, okay? I think it's eventually a last-mile business, our ability to attract the right set of talent and ensure that we, it has to follow an order, right?

If you need 10,000 families, we need 280, 300 super bankers. All bankers at any point of time won't have 35 relationships, some of them would not be phenomenally productive.

Maybe average will be closer to 30. At near to you need 325, 330 super bankers.

Is it easy to go from 180, 200 senior bankers to 330? The answer is no.

If there is any platform which can do that and attract those right set of people, it's really us. 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-net-worth side, we feel very confident to be able to move from that 200 to 300 number because we've got operating efficiencies of scale.

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 we stay our path, keep our heads down, I think we can move from the 200 to 300, 325 bankers.

Abhijeet Sakhare

Thanks a lot, Karan.

Karan Bhagat

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Next in line, we have Gaurav Jain.

Gaurav, kindly unmute yourself and ask your question.

Gaurav Jain

Hi. Thanks for the opportunity, and congratulations on steady set of numbers.

Just two data-keeping kind of questions from my side. One is I'm not sure if you already said, but what is this delta in TBR that we basically saw in Q4?

If you can help us understand which particular set of line item helped in this quarter, that would be helpful. Second, since it is first year of completion of BNK post-acquisition, not full completion, but major completion, key headline numbers of BNK, say operating revenue, other income, and PAT, that would be really helpful, Karan.

Karan Bhagat

Got it. I'll kind of give you some broad numbers.

I'll start with the second and then come back to your first question. Broadly, I think BNK numbers have been very, very steady for the last 10 months as compared to the year previous to that.

I think broadly speaking, we had a 230 to 250 crore top line, 220 to 250 crore top line in the year previous. We've been broadly around that range, in fact, added round 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 BNK platform and slight market share gain on the equity side.

From a PBT perspective, also pretty much in line. BNK had a PBT at the point of acquisition of approximately 100, 105 crores.

This year, we'll finish in the ballpark region of 105 to 110 crores before any specific acquisition-related costs. Overall, I think those are the broad numbers on the BNK side.

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 BNK Capital to become 360 ONE Capital, as well as common research and stuff like that's happened only maybe in the last 15 to 30 days. Hopefully, all benefits start coming in soon enough.

Obviously, teams, 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

Gaurav Jain

It was on TBR, Karan.

Karan Bhagat

No, sorry, it was on advisory AUM, what are the heads. Largely on the advisory, I think on the net flows, approximately 9 to 10,000 crores on net flows, it's a mix largely of advisory, a little bit of product distribution, and largely on the asset management side.

Asset management side is round about 2, 2.5 thousand crores. Advisory is in the ballpark of 4.5, 4, 4.5 thousand-odd, 5,000 crores, and the net amount coming from distribution assets would be the balancing amount of 2, 2.5 thousand crores, including the lending book.

That's the broad split of 9.5 thousand crores. On the TBR, on the delta versus quarter 3, it's largely, as I said earlier, it's a mix of asset classes.

I think what we've done extremely well on Q4 in terms of asset classes has been a combination of fixed income, some bit of REITs and InvITs, and potentially a couple of transactions on the high-yielding fixed income side.

Gaurav Jain

Just one last question, Karan. 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 despite of the volatility in bullion and equity?

Karan Bhagat

We don't have any margin funding book yet, our margin funding book's less than 50, 60 crores, I think. We really don't have a margin funding book because as a broker, we really don't do MTF.

On our lending book, which is largely a loan against shares book, which is collateralized at two times typically on a diversified portfolio, fortunately, we've not seen any stress at all.

Gaurav Jain

Yeah. Got it.

Thanks.

Karan Bhagat

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Next in line, we have Dipanjan Ghosh.

Dipanjan, kindly unmute and ask your question.

Dipanjan Ghosh

Hi, Karan. Good evening.

A few questions from my side. First, in terms of the incremental client set that you are 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.

Has there been any change in this mix? In this context, do you see any differentiation that you need to create on either servicing or products, or maybe is there a wallet share dilution which is far higher in this new customers versus let's say the erstwhile 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 participant's questions.

If you can 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. If you can just walk through the math in a little bit detail, that will be really helpful because we don't get access to some of these on the public domain.

Third would be a data-keeping question. In terms of your ARR assets, if you can kind of split the gross flows for the quarter and full year.

Karan Bhagat

Sorry, gross flows for the?

Dipanjan Ghosh

For the active ARR assets in the wealth segment. Also on the AMC.

Basically, the gross sales because we get the net new money number. So

Karan Bhagat

Got it. That I'll have to just depend on Sanjay or Anshuman for the gross flows numbers.

I can answer the first two questions by the time they can look at the gross flows numbers. Obviously, on the mutual fund side, looking at the gross flows won't help because it'll have liquid funds and debt funds and stuff like that.

On the alternates side, I think the gross flows will definitely help. Sanjay, maybe you can just pull it out on the alternate side.

On the quality of clients, obviously, I think it's a great question. I think the type of clients have become much more broader, and the depth has also increased.

Today, there is obviously a 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 300, 350 such family offices across the country who are substantially more sophisticated, who are able to take decisions faster, who are able to cut much larger checks, and most importantly, are willing to participate with us pretty much as partners across the entire platform, rather than just kind of allocating us ₹100 and say kind of just manage it on a portfolio advisory basis.

That class of clients 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-HNI side, has 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-based approach. Most of our relationship managers, while onboarding the clients, would talk about asset allocation, product selection, not ensuring more than 25% in a single product, not ensuring more than 15% in a single asset manager.

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. From a client segmentation perspective, I think a portfolio-based approach as opposed to product-based approach is leading to a slightly higher ticket size.

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, 7 cities, and background also is much more diverse.

I think it's now 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%. In that sense, I think, whether you look at companies which have been started by professionals, and professionals own any number between 2.5 to 10%, plus corporate lawyers, plus movie stars and Bollywood professionals, as well as sportspeople.

Overall, I think the client and even doctors, right? I think overall the length and breadth of professionals have increased, diversification in geographies, family offices are deep, and obviously, I think what we need to work on, again, maybe one 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 alternate investment funds.

Second, obviously, I think on the ARR assets, have you got the numbers, Sanjay, broadly?

Sanjay Wadhwa

Yeah. Broadly, I've got for AMC, the gross flow for the quarter is around 5,200 crore 5,200, and for the full year, it is 19,000.

Karan Bhagat

We had a great quarter on the asset management side in terms of flows. It's nearly 5,200 crores, but we've also had three funds, one large fund on the credit side which came up for maturity, which was nearly 1,500, 1,700 crores.

One of our real estate funds came up for maturity, which was 850-odd crores. I think we had a distribution from one of our private equity funds with a 2021 vintage.

That basically resulted in a net outflow of round about 2,500, 2,600 crores, which has resulted in the 5,300 crores coming down to the 2,300, 2,400 crore number.

Dipanjan Ghosh

Karan, maybe on the carry a bit, if you can.

Karan Bhagat

Sorry. On the carry, basically, I think I'll give the operating principles and 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 one Excel document. At an operating philosophy level, obviously, 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.

That's really when the carry kind of starts kicking in. If it's a 5-year fund or a 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.

Once the fund becomes carryable, obviously, we take a slight bit of a discount in terms of market values and stuff like that, and then start accounting for it. At the simplest level, it's not as if we're measuring the fund after 1 year, and it has to meet the hurdle after 1 year and then we start accounting for carry.

It has to meet the hurdle for the entire lifetime of the fund, and only then it kind of comes into carry. I would say, outside of large market variations, the carry which we are carrying is quite conservative and within range.

In terms of an overall fund list and broad maturity dates and so on and so forth, and maybe just a comment whether the fund is a carry fund or a fixed-fee fund, maybe Sanjay can put it up on Excel.

Dipanjan Ghosh

Sure, Karan. If I can just chip in one small question on the UBS bit where you gave some color.

In terms of referrals, how has been the traction? Any initial data point?

Also your AMC product on their platform, when can we expect some things on those lines? That's all.

Karan Bhagat

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 on the UBS platform, I think it's taken slightly longer, but hopefully, we'll see it happen over the next quarter or so, yeah.

Dipanjan Ghosh

Got it. Thank you, and all the best.

Karan Bhagat

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Next in line, in the interest of time, request you to kindly restrict yourself to not more than two questions.

Next in line, we have Siddharth. Siddharth, kindly unmute yourself and ask your question.

Hi. Thanks for the opportunity.

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.

Would you say that's been more attrition-led or clients pulling 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 rise 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? 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?

Distribution assets from UHNIs, what's the negative net flow? These were my three questions.

Karan Bhagat

Got it. Anil, do you want to just take the next question also and then I'll answer together?

Yeah.

Operator

We have Nidesh on the line. Nidesh, you'll have to unmute yourself and ask your question, then we can just take it together.

Thanks for the opportunity. I have two questions.

One is if you can share the breakup of TBR income in terms of listed equity, unlisted equity, institutional equity, debt, and others for the quarter. Second is if I look at team leader count and RM count, in last 3 years, the team leader count is broadly stable, and I think in the RM count also, there have been addition on the HNI team, UHNI team RM count may be stable.

Though our client base has gone up, how are we managing span of each team leader, and how we plan to, let's say, scale the team leader from a next 3 to 5-year perspective, given that there is intense competition, and last 3 years also, the count has been broadly flat? These are the two questions.

Karan Bhagat

Got it. I think I'll start with the questions earlier.

I think, broadly speaking, on the ARR assets side, I think, on the net flows side, as I've indicated before, very tough to look at on a Q-on-Q basis, but typically, we have a good sight 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, typically kind of sometimes businesses passes on from one 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 a Q2 to Q3 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 retentions on a very, very small base.

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 is resulted in a slightly lower trail income as compared to last quarter. On the TBR income split, I'll kind of give a broader-level split, which is what we disclose.

I think broadly round about 30, 35% is give or take 60 to 80 crores comes from largely a combination of listed and listed-related equity, half of that largely coming from private equity, investment banking, M&A activities, and round about a third comes from largely fixed income and fixed income yield-plus and real estate. It is broadly a third, a third, a third between these three 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 75, 80 or 70 to 75 senior leaders at scale over the last 3-odd years. Where we've really, I think, improved is our ratio to senior leaders to relationship managers.

I think on the ultra-high-net-worth side, we want to kind of have our minimum recruitment benchmark at what we call as the partner equivalent, effectively should have had at least 6 to 7 or maybe 8 years of experience in a retail prior to setup, and that's really where that becomes, in some senses, our entry level into the ultra-high-net-worth business. 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. Not only that, our average talent pool on the partner base is substantially better than what we had 5 years back.

It's both a quality improvement, as well as a quantity optimization, and I think with the quality improvement, there's automatic adjustment in span of control. 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 round about 240, and effectively take our current count of 180, 190 to 330, 340.

What is the count of RMs in the HNI segment as of March 2026?

Karan Bhagat

On the closing basis, 63, 64.

Sure.

Operator

Thank you.

Karan, just a follow-up on the DPMS net flows, maybe I'm reading this wrong, but from what it shows here, on the wealth side, the DPMS has a net negative net flow of 212 crores for distribution assets. Is that including the MTM, or is that net negative flows?

Karan Bhagat

Net flows in without MTM. Then

how much of that would be net negative for UHNI, and how much of it would be I'm assuming HNI is obviously positive because that'd be a very small base.

Karan Bhagat

Largely 212 crores will be ultra-HNI only.

Anshuman Maheshwary

Karan, it's corporate treasuries which has contributed to the negative number this quarter.

Got it. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. I think that's all we have time for today, ladies and gentlemen.

Thank you for joining us this evening.

Karan Bhagat

Thank you. Thank you, everybody.

Thanks for all the effort. Thank you.

Thank you.