Steep volatility in the markets has made fund managers cautious, awaiting opportunities to deploy the cash.
To be fair, one year is too short a period to judge the schemes' performance.
Except for September quarter, which had net inflows of $196 million, all other quarters had outflows.
The sector needs to move away from such concepts.
Now STPs or variable SIPs can earn better returns than vanilla SIPs.
Second-placed VfL Wolfsburg breathed new life into the Bundesliga title race with a 4-1 win over leaders Bayern Munich, who lost their unbeaten record in a dramatic restart to the league after the winter break on Friday.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will formally launch her 2016 presidential campaign on June 13 from New York
A 1962 Nobel Prize medal won by biologist James Watson for the discovery of the structure of DNA has fetched more than $4.7 million (Rs 29 crore), setting a world record for any Nobel Prize sold at auction.
In a deviation from the usual venue of Raj Bhavan, the event of May 27, will be held on the Red Road, one of the arterial roads in Kolkata that houses the Fort William where the Army is headquartered. And, it will remain blocked for at least five days, probably more.
American Simone Biles, who won four golds at last week's world gymnastics championships in China, including the all-around title, was named Sportswoman of the Year by the Women's Sports Foundation on Wednesday.
Investor folios exceed 2 million, assets more than double since FY14.
Defending Defence Minister A K Antony on the Poonch killings issue, senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh on Thursday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of politicising an issue concerning national security.
Disappointed Anirban Lahiri believes Asia on brink of major success.
'While the GST is structured to be an all-encompassing tax and to create a vastly expanded digital network of recorded transactions, no one knows how traders long used to avoiding taxes will apply their ingenuity,' says T N Ninan.
New retirement schemes from MFs offer Section 80C benefit but locks in your money for five years
Corrective measures are already being taken by fund managers - overall allocation to the IT firm has been pruned by 120 basis points, from 4.43 per cent in March to 3.24 per cent in July
Spaniard Sergio Garcia carded a final-round 68 to cruise to a four-stroke win at the Thailand Golf Championship on Sunday for his first title of the year.
'It is unlikely that foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) might increase their India allocation, given the overweight status for most FPIs.' 'Given the commentary from the Republican Party, an anti-imports approach means money will not flow out of the US.'
Benchmark indices plunge 4.7% in the first full week of 2016.
Gold funds have returned -5.2 per cent, while the Sensex is down 7 per cent in the past year.
Michael Phelps gifted himself an early birthday present by winning the 200 metres butterfly at the US Olympic swim trials on Wednesday to punch his ticket to the Rio Summer Games.
Tata Mutual Fund's 'own a piece of India' offering is suitable for informed investors.
Tata Group shares were among the top losers while Adani Ports emerged as the top gainer
With over 45 healthcare facilities and over 300 vibrant diagnostic centres, Fortis is India's second-largest hospital chain -- next only to Apollo, which has 64 hospitals with 10,000 beds. Therefore, any international or domestic hospital chain that buys Fortis will simply catapult to the numero uno position.
Here's what you should look at before investing in mutual funds.
Monday's steep fall turned Sensex's yearly returns to - 2.57%, but only two large-cap funds did worse.
The following is a factbox on former Dutch international who was popularly known as 'Flying Dutchman'.
Experts say the size of the fund shouldn't be a primary criterion for selection.
'What Trump and Kim have demonstrated is that leaders need not remain prisoners of the status quo and they can, by showing the necessary will and courage, break out of the hang-ups and constrictions of the past and carve out a new pathway for themselves,' says B S Raghavan.
The company has a market capitalisation of $743 billion.
Here's a pick of what Warrenn Buffett had to say over the weekend, and his annual 'Woodstock for Capitalists'.
Investors can sell their entire equity and move to debt when stocks get expensive
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
While an impending rate cut is a good reason to enter debt funds, another is the high valuations in equity markets.
Historian Stanley Wolpert, author of several books on India, passed into the ages recently. We remember Professor Wolpert with Rajeev Srinivasan's March 1997 interview published on the occasion of his controversial book on Jawaharlal Nehru.
Today, it holds $131 billion in assets under management.
With mind and body both more willing now, the only way for the World No 3 is up, says Dhruv Munjal.
Nick Kyrgios has accused Olympic great Dawn Fraser of being a 'blatant racist'.
B S Raghavan, a Chennai-based retired bureaucrat, lists here ten things that the Narendra Modi government is doing wrong.
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