The freefincal Equity Mutual Fund Performance Screener Dec 2017 is now available. I have simplified the column names and entries for easy understanding and use.  Use this screener file to hunt for equity funds that have consistently outperformed category benchmarks/indices with good downside protection (better performance when index is down)  and/or upside performance (better performance when…

Use this screener file to hunt for equity funds that have consistently outperformed category benchmarks with good downside protection and/or upside performance. This screener is meant for DIY investors who hopefully would appreciate these unique metrics.  The  “PlumbLine” is a set of handpicked mutual funds meant for the new investor to quickly get started when they use the  Freefincal…

Use this screener file to hunt for equity funds that have consistently outperformed category benchmarks with good downside protection and/or upside performance. I have now updated the list to match with Value Research category listing. Will update this from monthly from now on. Thanks to Dr. Dinesh Singh, for the push 🙂 Announcement: Gamechanger paperback is…

When we wish to choose a mutual fund, it is reasonable to expect it to have beat a benchmark (either the one chosen by the fund house or one representative of its category) consistently – say 8 times out of 10. Can we also impost an additional constraint? Expect the fund to fall lesser than…

Use this screener file to hunt for equity funds that have consistently outperformed category benchmarks with good downside protection and/or upside performance. Regular readers may be aware that I have been publishing such screener files for about a year now once a month (except Aug 2017, when my hard drive crashed). Up to June 2017, two screener…

The July 2017 Freefincal Mutual Fund Screener is out! This tells you how consistently a fund has beat its chosen category benchmark over 3,5,7 year periods. In addition, its consistency in downside protection and upside performance is also included, along with lump sum and SIP returns over 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11 year periods. Announcement: Venkatesh Jambulingam has been…

Each month, I publish equity mutual fund lump sum and SIP returns; upside capture, downside capture and capture ratios over 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11 year periods. This can be used as a screener to quickly select mutual funds. This time the period considered is from April 3rd, 2006 to June 2nd, 2017. Pranav Date wrote a code to match the…

Use this screener datasheet to choose mutual funds that have consistently outperformed a category benchmark over every possible 3,5,7 year periods from April 3rd 2006 to June 2nd 2017. Includes a “how-to-use” video. All equity funds and equity-oriented balanced funds (excluding equity savings funds) have been considered. The method adopted is based on this report:  A…

Each month, I publish equity mutual fund lump sum and SIP returns; upside capture, downside capture and capture ratios over 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 year periods. This can be used as a screener to quickly select mutual funds. This time the period considered is from April 3rd, 2006 to May 2nd, 2017. Pranav Date wrote a code to match the…

Use this screener datasheet to choose mutual funds that have consistently outperformed a category benchmark over every possible 3,5,7 year periods from April 3rd 2006 to May 2nd 2017. Includes a “how-to-use” video. All equity funds and equity-oriented balanced funds (excluding equity savings funds) have been considered**. The method adopted is based on this report:  A…