With the new government completing 100 days at the center and the US Fed giving in to the clamor with a resounding 50 bps rate cut, retail investors in Mutual Funds (MFs) who were waiting on the sidelines for the dust to settle can look at deploying monies in their chosen asset classes basis risk … Read more
Financial planners believe first-time investors in mutual funds can consider an aggressive hybrid equity fund to start with given that it combines two asset classes and is likely to be less volatile as compared to a pure equity fund. WHAT ARE AGGRESSIVE HYBRID FUNDS? Aggressive hybrid funds invest between 65% and 80% of their total … Read more
Rakesh Rawal, CEO, Anand Rathi Wealth, says it is easier to get flows when market sentiment is backed by investor confidence. When there is a little bit of turmoil, then more efforts are needed to build confidence and the past has shown that extra efforts do not change the direction of flows. So, yes, if … Read more
DP Singh, Deputy MD, SBI MF, says we may not see the largecap category itself having SIP flows, but the other funds also, every midcap and smallcap fund has some percentage of largecap stocks. So, do not look at the numbers just in the largecap category, but largecap stocks are also getting quite good flows.The … Read more
Mumbai: Wealth managers are worried about high flows into sectoral and thematic funds at a time when benchmark indices are trading close to their all-time highs, as many of these schemes have narrow mandates and carry higher risk than diversified equity funds. Some sectors require timing for entry and exit, which retail investors lack, they … Read more
“Most investors are best served by investing into diversified equity funds, where fund managers will express their conviction on sector/themes stocks, with graded underweight/overweight calls,” says Kaustubh Belapurkar, Director – Manager Research, Morningstar Investment Research India Private Limited. In an interview with ETMarkets, Belapurkar said: “Don’t sell in panic, equity markets are a great long … Read more
Small-cap funds received a quarter of the total inflows into equity mutual funds in 2023, compared with just 2.5% in 2021. The average inflows into small-cap funds doubled on year to ₹3,419 crore in 2023. Synopsis In December, small-cap funds added more than 935,000 folios, or accounts, data from the Association of Mutual Fund of … Read more
