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Monthly Market Insight – February 2020

Mutual Fund Research Desk

The February 2020 edition of FundsIndia’s Monthly Market Insight discusses an unusual portfolio approach to deal with Coronavirus and the position at which the Sensex would be in ten years. Consumer…Continue Reading

IDFC Sterling Value Fund

An underrated fund at the helm of a veteran fund manager

Arun Kumar

Not so great recent performance… Intuitively most of us like to buy a fund with a strong recent performance or high star rating (which is significantly influenced by strong recent…Continue Reading

Sensex at 1 lakh!

Arun Kumar

Usually, this genre of headlines gets extremely popular during the final phase of a bull market before it eventually fizzles out. And in later years, this normally becomes part of…Continue Reading

Monthly Market Insight – January 2020

Mutual Fund Research Desk

The January 2020 edition of FundsIndia’s Monthly Market Insight discusses the highlights of Union Budget 2020-2021 and the way it has turned out. CPI inflation rose to 7.4% in Dec-19 compared to 5.5%…Continue Reading

Dividend or Growth Plans

Dividend or Growth Plans? It’s a no-brainer post budget

Maulik Madhu

The 2020-21 Budget has done away with the dividend distribution tax (DDT) that funds have to deduct before distributing dividends to investors. Instead, from 1 April 2020 dividends will be…Continue Reading

Budget 2020-21

India Budget 2020-21 – Conservative and Incremental

Arun Kumar

Given the context of an economic slowdown, expectations were high for strong growth measures to revive the economy. The budget was predominantly ‘incremental’ in nature sticking to a fiscally conservative…Continue Reading

FundsIndia Review – Parag Parikh Long Term Equity Fund

Maulik Madhu

Why Invest? Proven Investment Strategy – Parag Parikh Long Term Equity Fund adheres to the value style of investing and selects stocks across market cap (large, mid and small-sized companies).…Continue Reading

US-Iran tension

US, Iran and your Portfolio. What happens next?

Arun Kumar

Unless you are living under a rock, by now you should know about the US-Iran tension. Here is a quick summary: The United States killed a top Iranian military commander…Continue Reading

Monthly Market Insight – December 2019

Mutual Fund Research Desk

The December 2019 edition of FundsIndia’s Monthly Market Insight discusses the importance of time in markets and the performance of Large Cap Funds. CPI inflation stood at 5.5% in Nov-19…Continue Reading

Is Small the new Big?

Maulik Madhu

What happened to Neil Woodford? The recent incident involving the iconic and now infamous British fund manager, Neil Woodford (often referred to as Britain’s answer to Warren Buffett) where his…Continue Reading