Since infrastructure projects have long gestation periods, investors need to enter them with a long horizon of at least 10 years.
TMFs invest in a public index, so investors know beforehand which instruments the fund will invest in.
Enter multi-cap funds only if you can stay invested for the long term.
Vijay Kelkar, former advisor to the Union finance minister, has joined the board of Tata Chemicals Ltd as director.
IDFC is merging its Portfolio Management Services business with the newly-acquired Standard Chartered Mutual Fund to sell MF products targeting high net worth individuals. The company is also planning products that offer infrastructure as an asset to investors.
'Money that came into mutual funds near the previous peaks -- the second half of 2017 and 2018 -- has in most cases experienced unflattering returns.' 'A large proportion of redemptions could be such inflows exiting when the market recovered sharply from July 2020 onwards.'
New technologies such as block chain are throwing up new opportunities; so the axe is bound to fall on those who are still stuck in the past and not reskilling themselves, says Shyamal Majumdar.
'The market movement will be largely driven by earnings growth.'
If the new governor can think out of the box even as he signals that he can bat for the RBI cadre and respect its institutional memory, that will go a long way in getting out of the current impasse.
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