If you already hold significant amounts of equity in your portfolio, avoid MAAFs with over 60 per cent equity. But if you lack equity exposure, an aggressive MAAF may be appropriate.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Momentum funds can be 10 to 15 per cent more volatile than the Nifty 50.
The gap between the highs and the lows in April for the benchmark S&P BSE Sensex was just 4.1 per cent - the narrowest since July 2021 and nearly half its three-year average. The absence of major positive triggers, sectoral rotation, and cautiousness due to earnings and economic uncertainty have kept a tight leash on the markets, observe experts. Remarkably enough, during the 17 trading sessions in April, the Sensex didn't even log an advance or a decline of more than 1 per cent.
Investors should use a mix of active and passive funds.
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The week's losses wiped out investor wealth worth Rs 18.43 trillion, with the total market capitalisation of BSE-listed firms now at Rs 441 trillion.
'As the markets are expected to remain jittery in the near term, we advise investors to use this opportunity to enter quality largecaps from a long-term perspective.'
Nikunj Saraf, Vice President Choice Wealth, will answers your queries.
'These are areas that we're trying to tidy up and try and be much more consistent all around.'
Ulhas Joshi, Head -- Sales, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Once a quality stock has been bought, the next challenge is to hold on to it -- no mean feat in this age of information overload and incessant noise.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Flexi-cap funds are diversified equity funds with a mandate to invest in stocks across market capitalisations.
Many investors want to exit equities now and re-enter when they begin to rise. Such timing is difficult to pull off.
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Nikunj Saraf, Vice President Choice Wealth, answers your mutual fund queries.
'As we navigate uncertain waters, a conservative approach to largecap investing could provide a strategic advantage.'
From the Sensex firms, Power Grid, NTPC, Tech Mahindra, Bharti Airtel, Tata Motors, IndusInd Bank, Reliance Industries, Kotak Mahindra Bank and Maruti were among the laggards. Asian Paints, Wipro, JSW Steel, Hindustan Unilever, Bajaj Finserv and Mahindra & Mahindra were among the biggest gainers.
The continued selling in frontline stocks by foreign investors over the past one month, which also coincided with curbs on participatory notes (P-notes), delayed the Sensex and the Nifty from closing above the crucial milestone of 20,000 and 6,000 respectively.
Nikunj Saraf, Vice President Choice Wealth, will answers your queries.
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Plunged as much as 60% in some cases, amid panic selling on speculations of sale of pledged shares.
Nikunj Saraf, Vice President Choice Wealth, answers your queries.
rediffGURU Sunil Lala answers your MF-related queries.
Balanced advantage funds (BAFs) were popular in the later part of 2021 and continued to see good inflows until some months back as investors looked for safer options amid over-valuation concerns. As such concerns ease, investors are turning to riskier funds and shifting from BAFs. Redemptions from the hybrid fund category have exceeded in six of the last seven months, with investors pulling out a net of Rs 3,140 crore during the seven-month period.
These funds can fetch double-digit returns over the long term which debt tax-saving products can't.
'We suggest an equity strategy of 5% to 10% exposure to cash, 5% to Gold ETF, close to 50% to Sensex/Nifty/large mid-cap stocks.'
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According to data from BSE, the 4,357 companies available for trade had a combined mcap of around Rs 416 trillion on Tuesday against India's GDP at current prices of Rs 296.6 trillion in FY24.
Mid-cap stocks have emerged as the clear favourite of investors, both institutional as well as retail, if returns in the last two months is any indication.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, will answer your queries.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Many retail investors, who are experiencing their first bear market, are shocked at the erosion in the value of their mutual fund (MF) portfolios. The pain is especially acute for those who had taken excessive exposure to sector/thematic and small-cap funds. Even international diversification has failed to stanch the bleed in this downturn.
'Invest only in stocks of those companies that deliver on earnings and there is earnings visibility too for the next few quarters.'
Do you have financial planning queries? Ask rediffGURU Anil Rego.
'Rather than taking a very short-term view on the markets, equity investing should be premised on longer term growth opportunities.'
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