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Should you have sector funds in your portfolio?
April 19, 2013For those of you not new to mutual funds, the above question would have crept in your mind at least a few times in the past couple of years. Many…Continue Reading
Mutual fund labeling: What colour is your fund?
March 21, 2013Come July 2013, mutual funds are set to become more colourful; literally! We are talking of the new SEBI’s circular on product labeling in mutual funds. What exactly is product…Continue Reading
Should you choose the dividend option or the growth option?
March 15, 2013“Should I go for growth option or take out the dividends in my fund?” – is a question frequently asked by many of you, when venturing into mutual fund investments.…Continue Reading
Mutual funds – 2012 performance round up
January 2, 2013It was not a particularly easy year for the mutual fund industry. Regulatory changes at a frequency that was hard to keep pace with, fund manager churns, big ticket takeover…Continue Reading
Are you better off investing lump sums?
November 19, 2012A recent article in Time magazine’s Business section quoted a report from fund house Vanguard that said investors with lump sum were better off investing in the markets all at…Continue Reading
Change in cut-off time
November 2, 2012Due to recent SEBI regulations, we are announcing a change in the cut-off time for some mutual fund transactions effective immediately. Background: As part of the many changes that SEBI…Continue Reading
Who do we represent? AMC or the Investor?
September 28, 2012An interesting twitter conversation ensued today between CIEL’s Uma Shashikant and Mint’s Hindustan Times’s Gautam Chikermane. It started with a conversation that Gautam had with Raghuram Rajan in which the latter…Continue Reading
SEBI’s new mutual fund regulations – what is the real impact to retail investors likely to be?
August 17, 2012After weeks of deliberations, SEBI has come out with its new regulations for the mutual fund industry. Currently, it is a press release which means we only get the outline…Continue Reading
Impact of proposed expense ratio hike
July 21, 2012A tweet from Subramoney (a.k.a P V Subramanyam) prompted this post. Commenting on the rumored recommendation waiting for SEBI clearance about hiking expense ratio of mutual funds and passing on…Continue Reading
Mutual fund meet: what we would have said
July 12, 2012The ministry of finance is meeting representatives of the mutual fund industry today. This is the second such meeting within a fortnight, and apparently some imminent changes are on the…Continue Reading
