Mutual funds based on the consumption sector offered an average return of around 13.73% in three months – the third highest among all equity mutual categories. Around 15 consumption funds have completed three months of existence in the market. Kotak Consumption Fund, the topper in the category, offered 17.97% return in the last three month … Read more
The sectoral and thematic funds ruled the return chart in August and offered up to 9.37% return, a data crunching by ETMutualFunds showed. There were around 590 equity and equity oriented mutual funds in the said period. WOC Pharma and Healthcare Fund, the topper in the list, gave 9.37% return in August. Two international funds … Read more
Infrastructure and defence based mutual funds have dominated the returns chart in the first half of 2024, an analysis of the return charts showed. There were around 208 sectoral/thematic funds in the said period. The toppers in the list were from the infrastructure sector, defence sector and PSU sector. HDFC Defence Fund, the topper in … 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
Jun 07, 2024, 09:22:45 PM IST Three equity mutual fund categories gave more than 25% returns in the last five years. The returns ranged between 25.22% and 26.94%, according to data pulled from ACE MF. Getty Images 2/5 Smallcap funds top return chart Smallcap funds have offered the highest average return of around 26.94% in … Read more
Sectoral/thematic mutual funds have delivered up to 380% absolute return in the last five years of Modi-led government. There were around 108 sectoral/thematic funds in the market in the said time period.Infrastructure funds led the return chart. Out of top 10 sectoral/thematic funds, eight schemes were from the infrastructure sector. Quant Infrastructure Fund, the topper … Read more
May 10, 2024, 03:54:19 PM IST 1/11 Inflows rise, outflows linger Equity mutual funds received a total inflows of Rs 18,917 crore in April. In all, 9 of them received inflows in April, according to the monthly data by AMFI. The data further showed that two categories saw outflows in the same period. Here is … Read more
Anthony Heredia, Managing Director and CEO, Mahindra Manulife, says “for the last two or three months, there has been a clear shift away from small and midcaps being the flavour of the month to perhaps flexi and multi-cap funds being the more relevant product. But what I am also seeing increasingly is a huge interest … Read more
Apr 08, 2024, 06:11:23 PM IST Four sectoral, thematic fund categories have offered the highest returns in 2024 so far, according to data by ACE MF. These categories offered returns between 11.69% and 21.17% in the period. In other words, only these 4 categories have offered double-digit returns in 2024 so far. iStock 2/7 PSU … Read more
Most equity mutual fund investors look for best performing mutual fund schemes in a longer horizon, say five and 10 years. ETMutualFunds did some data crunching and found out that around 64 equity mutual funds have offered more than 10% in 2024 so far. We considered the top 20 equity mutual funds. Top two performers … Read more
