Make your move before elections
November 26, 2018Many of you fear market volatility or market reactions to the elections. This is not surprising. Political stability would be a clear positive for the markets, while a government change…Continue Reading
How much markets have crashed and risen
October 29, 2018There are concerns all round – climbing crude oil prices, depreciating domestic currency, escalating trade wars that are already beginning to bite, warnings over slower global economies and US corporate…Continue Reading
Changes to FundsIndia’s Select Funds
October 17, 2018These are tough times for equity and even debt markets and for mutual funds. A host of global and domestic factors have sent markets into worry mode. Against this backdrop, we…Continue Reading
What happened with IL&FS? What’s the debt fund impact?
September 11, 2018IL&FS (Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services) finances and develops infrastructure across the country, on its own and through a range of group companies. The group is among the largest in…Continue Reading
Sundaram Services Fund NFO: Tapping some new opportunities
September 10, 2018The services sector in India accounts for over half our GDP. It is also among the steadier drivers of GDP growth. Sundaram Services Fund aims at capturing the opportunities in…Continue Reading
First quarter earnings show broad-based growth
August 31, 2018Our analysis of the June quarter results for the NSE Nifty 500 companies suggests positive earnings growth across sectors barring banks. Excluding banks, revenue for 464 out of the 500…Continue Reading
What’s an NFO? Should you go for it?
August 20, 2018Expanding into New Fund Offer, an NFO is the launch of a new mutual fund by an asset management company. And there are several of these cropping up in recent…Continue Reading
FundsIndia Views: Why equity funds are underperforming
August 8, 2018Recent news headlines have been giddily declaring new market highs – ‘the Sensex is nearing its January peak’, ‘now its past that’, ‘now is 36,500’, ‘now its broken through 37,000’.…Continue Reading
RBI’s rate hike gives more reason to invest in debt funds
August 6, 2018A second policy rate hike by RBI, last week, coming on the back of a hike only 2 months ago, was surprising for some. But markets seemed prepared for it.…Continue Reading
FundsIndia’s Mutual Fund Ratings – post SEBI’s categories
July 25, 2018Post AMCs moving to SEBI-defined categories, we have seen different rating agencies as well as ‘top MFs’ list by media houses following various methods to deal with comparison of different…Continue Reading
