Category: Mutual Fund Research
Observations, recommendations and insights, straight from our Mutual Fund Research Desk
What SEBI’s proposal to categorise and consolidates schemes can mean to you
September 18, 2017Post media reports last week, some of you sought to know what would happen to your mutual funds with SEBI’s proposal to reduce the number of schemes. Some of you…Continue Reading
FundsIndia Views: Why you need help choosing debt funds
September 13, 2017Short on time? Listen to a brief overview of this week’s review. Most of you look at returns of equity mutual funds to pick a fund to invest. When the…Continue Reading
Mutual funds are betting big on the financial sector
September 8, 2017Banking and financial services are the most favoured sectors for equity mutual funds, with both sectors seeing their share in equity fund AUM inching steadily higher. Data from SEBI show…Continue Reading
FundsIndia Recommends: Aditya Birla Sun Life Balanced ‘95
September 6, 2017Short on time? Listen to a brief overview of this week’s review. A new entrant to the Select Funds list in our June quarter review is Aditya Birla Sun Life…Continue Reading
You don’t have to add schemes when you increase investments
September 4, 2017“I want to invest more/I want to increase my SIPs. Can you suggest good new funds that I don’t hold?” – is a question that we hear often. The key…Continue Reading
FundsIndia Views: Why your dynamic bond fund returns will not be static
August 31, 2017Short on time? Listen to a brief overview of this week’s review. In recent months, your dynamic bond fund’s annualised returns may have fallen from high double-digit returns to single-digit…Continue Reading
FundsIndia Strategies: The why and how of portfolio diversification
August 23, 2017Short on time? Listen to a brief overview of this week’s review. [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/339133316″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Looking at double-digit returns in the stock market, it may seem…Continue Reading
What to do with your fund when a correction happens
August 21, 2017In recent times, stock markets have given us enough reasons to worry. First, there was the blistering run in July when indices hit all-time highs. Then there was concern of…Continue Reading
FundsIndia Views: Reset your return expectations
August 16, 2017Short on time? Listen to a brief overview of this week’s review. [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/338109395″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] With the markets delivering close to 20% returns on a year-to-date…Continue Reading
FDs are not as risk free as you think
August 14, 2017SBI, Bank of Baroda and more recently Axis Bank cut their savings bank rate to 3.5%. This may mean that the already low FD rates may also dip further. Most…Continue Reading