Growth investors usually face an annoying choice: either hold a broad basket and wait for laggards to wake up, or chase every hot pocket and accept messy drawdowns. Growth Horizon was built so you don’t have to pick between those two extremes. It tries to stay with businesses the market is rewarding now, but only if those businesses also clear basic quality and liquidity hygiene, so the portfolio is investable and not just a pretty screen.

The starting idea was simple: current market leadership is valuable, but it’s more valuable when the underlying company looks capable of sustaining that leadership. Price tells us where attention is; light-quality tells us whether it’s worth sticking around. That combination — momentum to enter, quality/liquidity to stay sane — is what Growth Horizon is about.

We begin, like our other rule-based sleeves, inside the Nifty 500. That gives us breadth without wandering into illiquid corners. From there we drop names that don’t meet our investability and governance standards; this keeps the universe “live” — only stocks we can actually own get to compete. The eligible set is then ranked on multi-horizon price momentum: stronger, more persistent relative strength ranks higher. But, unlike a raw momentum list, we also look at earnings durability and balance-sheet reasonableness. That light overlay is there to do one thing: make the growth we’re buying less fragile.

From this ranked universe we build a compact basket of 10–15 stocks. It stays narrow on purpose — you can’t let a signal show up in performance if you spread it across 40 names. Positions are sized with impact and volatility in mind, and we cap both stock and sector exposure so one runaway theme doesn’t hijack the portfolio. This is where Growth Horizon parts ways from “trend-chasing”: it wants to benefit from leadership, not be at its mercy.

The portfolio turns over on a fixed monthly schedule. Each month the list is re-scored; leaders that continue to behave like leaders stay; weaker names leave. In between those scheduled reviews, we will still cut a stock if it breaks the rulebook — loss of trend, loss of quality, loss of liquidity — but we don’t keep poking the portfolio every week. Buffer bands are used to avoid micro-churn when two names are nearly tied. The result is a portfolio that renews itself often enough to stay current, but not so often that it becomes noisy.

Because we are pairing momentum with a growth tilt, behavior will be regime-dependent. In trending markets, when the same set of businesses are being rewarded for execution and earnings visibility, Growth Horizon should feel very “present” — the portfolio will look like what you’re seeing on the tape. In sideways or fast-rotating markets, or when value/mean reversion takes over, it can lag: signals degrade, and the quality screen makes us slower to chase every flip. That is normal for this style and is not a sign that the process is broken.

Who should use it? Investors who like growth but don’t want to make a single-sector or single-theme bet. Investors who are okay with 10–15 names changing through the year because the rules said so, not because someone had a hunch. Investors who understand that concentrated, rules-led equity will have tracking error and visible drawdowns, but that the compensation is the chance to compound from today’s strength, not yesterday’s narrative. It is not for someone who wants index-like smoothness or buy-and-forget behavior.

In short, Growth Horizon is our answer to a very practical question: “Can I stay with winners the market likes right now, without abandoning basic quality and liquidity discipline?” Our view is yes — if you keep the universe clean, let the ranking do its job, and refresh on time.