Investors have pumped in nearly Rs 54,000 crore into various mutual fund schemes in January, with liquid, income and equity funds attracting the most of the inflows.
Some of the money pulled out of mutual funds and the secondary market is coming back via public issues.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Due to tax associations with the fiscal-ending, April is a month of SIP renewal. So, the April numbers will be important and may perhaps, mark a change in retail attitude.
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Treat silver as part of the procyclical or growth assets in your portfolio, advises Sanjay Kumar Singh.
With real estate -- NRIs's favourite investment vehicle in the past -- unlikely to do well in the near future, there is a strong case for NRIs to shift to equity and debt mutual funds, says Prateek Mehta.
Taxpayers are filing their income tax returns (ITRs) early for the Assessment Year 2024-25 (FY25). By April 29, over 592,000 returns were filed, with over 538,000 verified and 367,000 processed. Early filing allows revisions without penalties.
In 2013-14, as many as 45 people each earned more than Rs 1 crore (Rs 10 million) commission as a mutual fund (MF) distributor. This is up from 33 in 2012-13 and 22 in 2011-12.
The new rule follows the recommendations of the Association of Mutual Funds in India's Working Group on Standardisation of Key Operational Areas, a circular by Sebi said in Mumbai on Tuesday evening.
India's mutual fund industry, led by market leaders Reliance Mutual Fund, ICICI Prudential and UTI MF, has witnessed a fall of over Rs 58,000 crore (Rs 580 billion) in its assets during March.Despite the fall, Reliance MF continued to be the most valued fund house in the country with Assets Under Management (AUM) of Rs 90,937.94 crore (Rs 909.37 billion) at the end of March.
Instead of only focusing on the tenure for which the best interest rate is available, investors should also focus on their own investment horizon.
The Mutual Fund Identification Number (MIN), mandatory for investments above Rs 50,000 in mutual funds, is likely to stay, even though the month-old confusion over it continues.
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This will allow investors the freedom of choice based on the services they get from a distributor.
Equity fund managers' other favourites are software stocks followed by pharma, finance and consumer non-durables
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
'Continue with your SIPs to get the benefit of lower average prices in this challenging market environment.'
The bulk of an investor's portfolio should be in shorter-duration funds of up to one year portfolio duration.
T'I am not going to buy small- or mid-cap stocks at very high valuations if it doesn't make sense for the investors.'
Understand the pros and cons of SGBs before rushing to invest in them based on past returns.
Tata Mutual Fund's 'own a piece of India' offering is suitable for informed investors.
'The idea is to invest where there is opportunity.'
'Strong regulations are crucial for the orderly development of the market.'
Ask rediffGURU and tax expert Mihir Tanna your income tax-related questions.
An additional factor spurring the FMP launches is MFs' desire to retain investors as many such offerings are set to mature over the next two months.
Senior officials in the MF industry say while the finance ministry and regulators communicate regularly, this is one of the very few instances in many years where an issue between the two has come out into the open.
In 2022, gold emerged as the top performer among all conventional asset classes with over 14 per cent returns mainly owing to the depreciation of the rupee.
Retail participation in mutual funds from beyond the top 15 cities in the country has increased remarkably in the past 18 months.
I would advise at least a 7 year investment time frame for Equity Investing
In August, the Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das held a meeting with chief executive officers/ managing directors (CEOs/ MDs) of large non-banking financial corporations (NBFCs). The discussions included diversifying borrowing sources for NBFCs and housing finance companies (HFCs) to contain increasing reliance on bank borrowing, risks associated with high credit growth in retail segment in unsecured loans, prioritising IT upgrades and cyber-security, improving provisioning, monitoring of stressed exposures and slippages, ensuring robust liquidity and asset-liability management, ensuring transparency in pricing, creating robust grievance redress mechanisms.
Begin by creating a household budget. Involve all family members in the exercise and cut costs wherever possible.
Funds made investments worth Rs 64,602 crore (Rs 646.02 billion) in the debt market during June, higher than Rs 26,840 crore (Rs 268.4 billion) in May, as per the latest data available with market regulator Sebi.
Investors pumped Rs 491 crore in gold exchange traded funds (ETFs) in February as they seem be taking advantage of the lower domestic prices caused due to declining international rates, appreciating rupee and reduction in custom duty. This came following a net investment of Rs 625 crore in January and Rs 431 crore in December. Prior to this, gold ETFs had seen an outflow of Rs 141 crore in November, data available with Association of Mutual Funds in India showed.
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