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Here is why you should avoid Motilal Oswal Nifty 500 Fund and stick to established Nifty 50 index funds. It is a pity that people assume that by buying 500 stocks they are actually buying the whole market and will something extra compared to large cap index fund tracking the Nifty 50 or the Sensex….
Continue reading →The Nifty 50 Value 20 index (NV20) comprises of 20 large cap value stocks from the Nifty 50. There are currently three ETFs that track this index. So the natural question to ask is, is Nifty 50 Value 20 Index better than the Nifty 50? Let us find out! The three ETFs tracking NV20 are Kotak…
Continue reading →There is no need for investors to consider the two new index from DSP: DSP Nifty 50 Index Fund & DSP Nifty Next 50 Index Fund as there are good existing options. Amusingly, in its promotional campaign DSP has admitted that beating the market will be tougher in future! We should avoid a new index fund…
Continue reading →As readers may be aware, over the last few months I have presented evidence that the Nifty Next 50, Nifty 100 and Nifty 100 Equal Weight indices are hard to beat and only about half the funds in any given category manage to do so. However, the Nifty Next 50 is extremely volatile; there are…
Continue reading →The Nifty 50 Equal Weight Index (N50EW) is one which the 50 stocks with highest market capitalization have equal exposure in the index. Whereas the more commonly used Nifty 50 (N50) has a market cap based exposure. In this post, we consider the impact of equal weights. Does it result in higher returns? What about risk?…
Continue reading →Yesterday (26th July 2017), the Nifty 50 closed above 10,000 for the first time. In this post, let us discuss what we can learn from its journey from 1,000 to 10,000. This post is inspired by a comment from Ravikiran Suryanarayana: “How many of you noticed that it took 7 long years for Nifty to…
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