The equity market has gone nowhere since October 2021. However, if you are losing patience and thinking about stopping or redeeming your equity investments, don’t! Now is the best time to invest! Even if we buy into the (incorrect*) belief that “over the long term, the stock market will move up always”, equity investing is…
Continue reading →Here is a list of attributes necessary to select and stay invested in actively managed mutual funds if you do not wish to invest in passive mutual funds. Before we begin, we caution the young earner that less than half the active funds in any category manage to consistently beat an accessible benchmark and it…
Continue reading →We received an interesting email from Mr Rangarajan a few days: “When I read your article about pension, I remembered my father’s situation. When he was an advocate earning Rs 1,000 per month in 1934, he joined judicial service on a payment of Rs 250 per month”. This is the financial journey (1923-1983) of a…
Continue reading →This is an ETF screener based on tracking errors and tracking differences (ETF return minus index return). The screener will help users evaluate how efficiently an ETF has tracked its underlying benchmark. The tracking error is the ETF’s standard deviation minus index monthly return differences. The lower the tracking error, the more efficient the ETF…
Continue reading →A reader was trying to convince his friend that retirement planning is the number one priority in investing. All others, including our children’s education, come next. He wrote to me looking for “logical support”, as he put it. He was, however, sorely disappointed with me for believing just the opposite. So this is my attempt…
Continue reading →We have repeatedly shown that most active mutual funds struggle to beat category benchmarks. This is not just a trend seen in large cap funds – Active Large Cap Mutual Funds vs Nifty 100 performance analysis. Contrary to popular belief, the trend is also seen among mid cap funds as well – Only 3 out of…
Continue reading →The IDFC US Treasury Bond 0 to 1-year Fund of Fund is an open-ended fund of fund scheme investing in units/shares of overseas Index Funds and/or ETFs which track an index with US treasury securities in the 0-1 year maturity range as its constituents. In this review, we analyse the performance of the underlying index…
Continue reading →In this article, we look at the trailing returns and rolling returns of actively managed large cap mutual funds vs Nifty 100 TRI using the Equity Mutual Fund Screener Feb 2023. Trailing returns refers to the last 1,2,3,4, and 5-year return as of Feb 3rd 2023 and rolling returns refer to every possible 1,2,3,4 and 5-year…
Continue reading →About 80% of those who ask us about Sovereign Gold Bonds want to buy them for the wrong reasons. I would wager that the number is about the same in the Facebook group Asan Ideas for Wealth, if not more. When not to buy Sovereign Gold Bonds! Those who want “some returns” from gold or…
Continue reading →The latest freefincal Equity Mutual Fund Performance Screener is now available. Use it to screen for consistently performing equity mutual funds. You can screen based on fund category & benchmark and spot mutual funds with a higher return than a benchmark at a lower risk. Inside, you get discounted links to our robo advisory tool…
Continue reading →A reader says, “I’m 57 and on the verge of retirement and in IT, can I opt for a higher EPS pension?” As regular readers may be aware, we have discussed this topic at some length: Higher EPS Pension: Should those who retired recently or are about to retire opt for it? Can I opt…
Continue reading →There are 28 actively managed midcap mutual funds available for investment today. Out of these, 23 are older than five years. This article evaluates how these midcap mutual funds have fared against the Nifty Midcap 150 Total Returns Index. We found only three midcap mutual funds have outperformed the index consistently. Therefore it is a…
Continue reading →A reader asks, “How to decide whether to persist with or exit an underperforming equity fund? By switching too frequently, one may catch the bad periods of the funds and end up doing worse than all the funds tried. Persisting too long will, of course, hurt if the fund keeps underperforming”. “It is understood that…
Continue reading →We review the performance consistency of Kotak Pension Fund Scheme E – NPS TIER I measured against Nifty 50 TRI and UTI Nifty 50 TRI. The scheme was launched in June 2009 and currently has an AUM of about Rs. 1,070 crores. In a previous article, we listed the investment policy of NPS equity schemes,…
Continue reading →We publish five kinds of screeners monthly. Each link will take you to the archive for that category with the latest screener at the top. Inside each screener, you get discounted links to our robo advisory tool and two courses: How to get people to pay for your skills (aka earn from skills) and the lectures on goal-based…
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