Last Updated on December 29, 2021 at 4:53 pm
Mirae Asset Midcap Fund is the latest NFO from Mirae Mutual Fund. The fund house has been busy shuffling its funds. First, it made Mirae India Equity fund into Mirae large Cap Fund in March (effective 1st May 2019). Then it announced a multicap NFO Mirae Asset Focused Fund in April 2019 and now a Midcap fund.
From AMC’s point of view, this is an asset-gathering exercise. They are in the good books of the distributor community (they need to be in the absence of a bank to drive sales) and each time there is an NFO, they will press all the right buttons (including the media) to drive sales.
As an investor, this kind of gymnastics ought to be plain repulsive. The NFO presentation of Mirae Asset Midcap Fund makes a song and dance about how it is the right time to invest in midcaps (what else would it say anyway!). If that is the case, why not open lump sum investments in Mirae Asset Emerging Bluechip fund?
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The AMC still claims emerging bluechip is “primarily a midcap fund”. Lump-sum investments were suspended in Oct 2016 when AUM was only ~ 3100 Crores and not opened yet! It has happily driven sales in this fund via SIPs and STPs (current AUM ~ 7700 Cr)
There is nothing unique about Mirae Asset Midcap Fund. It says the usual stuff about “unearthing opportunities”, “invest in future large caps”, blah blah. Most people who are reading this will have zero need for a midcap fund in their portfolio.
Even if they do, they can happily invest in any of the midcap funds with a fantastic track record. See for example DSP Midcap Fund Review: A Top Three Performer! You can screen for such funds in any category with the Equity Mutual Fund Performance Screener
If the investor has a deluded love for Mirae Mutual Fund, they can start a SIP in Mirae Emerging Bluechip. It has all the midcap one needs, is managed by a good fund manager: Neelesh Surana since May 2010 (at the time of writing, things change quick and smooth in this space).
There is no flaming need to invest in Mirae Asset Midcap fund unless you are tricked into believing getting units at a NAV of Rs. 10 per unit will make a big difference to your life.
Suggestions:
1: Do not get married to Fund Houses or their products
2: Unfollow all AMC folk on social media. You will sleep a lot better.