I received an unusual question from a reader that said, “my ppf account is nearing maturity. should I close it and invest the amount into equity to correct my asset allocation close to where it should be? Or should I extend the ppf for another five years?”. Unusual because most investors would never think of…
Continue reading →Focused mutual funds are schemes that can invest in a maximum of 30 stocks in large cap or mid cap or small cap stocks or across market cap (multicap). The scheme must invest 65% of assets in equity and must mention its market cap alignment. In this article, we find out how focused mutual funds…
Continue reading →ICICI Prudential ESG Fund is an open-ended equity scheme investing in companies identified based on the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) theme. This is a review of the ESG theme and whether investors should consider investing in such a theme and in this fund which has an NFO Period between 21st Sept – 5th Oct…
Continue reading →On Sep 11th 2020, SEBI modified asset allocation rules of multicap mutual funds claiming that these funds have not remained “true to label”. They then released an additional clarification that the flexibility to invest across market cap does not mean funds could ignore small caps. What was SEBI’s motive behind this rule? Or was it…
Continue reading →Here is a simple way to select mutual funds that have beat the category benchmark in terms of both return and risk over the last one, two, three, four and five years simultaneously! That is higher than the benchmark return and lower than benchmark risk.
Continue reading →A reader asks, “can I hold 25% of index mutual funds in my portfolio?”. Superficially it might seem like a wrong thing to do. However, it depends on the index and the rest of the equity portfolio.
Continue reading →The NSE has introduced a new strategy index, Nifty200 Momentum 30 index which tracks the performance of 30 stocks with high momentum score. We evaluate the performance of the index in this article.
Continue reading →These are the 30 Sensex stocks with weights. Sensex is the oldest stock index of India. It has the top 30 stocks by market capitalization trading in the BSE. Sensex 30 Companies List Company Name Holding(%) Sector Reliance Industries Ltd. 15.3358 Crude Oil HDFC Bank Ltd. 11.1176 Bank Infosys Ltd. 9.0531 IT Housing Development Finance…
Continue reading →Parag Parikh Long Term Equity Fund has issued a “change in the fundamental attribute” addendum to the scheme mandate including covered call options. In this article, we explain this strategy, why it is used and what investors should do when they receive such notifications from AMCs.
Continue reading →SEBI was forced to release a press release on 14th Sep 2020 after its Sep 11th circular change in multicap fund asset allocation caused concern about fall in large caps in the coming days. SEBIs unnecessary change has lead investors to ask if they should consider an exit from multicap mutual funds.
Continue reading →A question that often worries young earners is, “What percentage of my salary should I invest each month? Is 10% okay? Or should it be 20%?” Often this is asked when a person wants a quick rule of thumb to check if they are on the right track so they spend free from guilt. Unfortunately,…
Continue reading →We evaluate the performance consistency of HDFC Balanced Advantage Fund by comparing it with Nifty 100 TRI and CRISIL 65% Equity 35% Bonds hybrid index.
Continue reading →In a circular dated Sep 11th 2020, SEBI has modified asset allocation rules for multicap mutual funds. We discuss how this rule is unnecessary and is likely to affect investors.
Continue reading →Nifty 50 companies with index weightage are listed for November 2020. These 50 out of the 1600 companies traded on the NSE representing 65% its float-adjusted market capitalization. The index started trading in April 1996. To be included in the Nifty, a stock must have an impact cost of less than 0.5% during the last…
Continue reading →Even an occasional market observer would know that the NASDAQ 100 index has zoomed past the S&P 500 after the March 2020 market crash. Has it begun to correct now? I received this question a couple of days ago. “I have been investing in Motilal Oswal NASDAQ 100 Fund of Fund via SIP since inception…
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