Christopher Plummer probably remains best-known for his portrayal of Captain Von Trapp in the 1965 blockbuster The Sound of Music. While his character infamously appears rather grumpy on screen, behind the scenes the actor himself was also often in a difficult mood, and despised making the film. Even in the 1960s, singing nuns and Nazis … Read more
The 2024 Union Budget introduced pivotal changes to the capital gains tax structure, impacting investors in international and gold mutual funds, as well as equity Funds of Funds (FoFs). These changes include a reduced holding period and a revised long-term capital gains (LTCG) tax rate, while the short-term capital gains (STCG) tax rate remains unchanged. … Read more
Mumbai: Retail investors continued to pour money into equity mutual funds through systematic investment plans (SIPs) and lump-sum allocations. Equity mutual funds, led by thematic funds, received ₹37,113 crore in July, as against ₹40,608 crore in June. Flows through SIPs into mutual funds increased, touching a new monthly record of ₹23,332 crore compared to ₹21,262 … Read more
Many mutual fund investors always look for those equity mutual funds that double or triple their investment in a short span of time. ETMutualFunds did some data crunching and found that around 13 equity mutual funds multiplied investors wealth by more than four times in five years. Around 189 equity mutual funds have completed five … Read more
ETMutualFunds looked at the performance of equity mutual funds in FY24 (April 1, 2023 to till date). Nifty50 was up by 27.05% and S&P BSE Sensex was up by 23.32%. The toppers were from sectoral/thematic funds. Aditya Birla SL PSU Equity Fund, the topper in the list, offered 84.86% in the financial year 2023-24 so … Read more
The value of Edelweiss Mutual Fund’s Gold and Silver Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) Fund of Fund (FoF) unexpectedly plunged 6.93% on Thursday. The fund house said the drop in the Net Asset Value (NAV) of scheme, which invests 50% of its corpus each in Gold and Silver ETFs, following an erroneous trade in the Gold … Read more
Trideep Bhattacharya, CIO, Edelweiss MF, says: “It will probably take the next year for that improvement to come through. But the valuations over the next one or two quarters would be such that they may be good to add. On net balance, we were underweight on IT by about 300 bps at the end of … Read more
