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The equity market is passing through a very challenging environment this year. High inflation, rising interest rates, tightening liquidity, weakening Chinese economy and currency and the War in Ukraine have created significant headwinds for equity as an asset class. Heavy FII selling of Indian equities have...

Axis Multi-cap Fund completed 3 years in November 2020. 3 year performance period is usually a good horizon to evaluate the performance of a fund. Multi-cap funds invest across different market cap segments i.e. large cap, midcap and small cap. Axis Multi-cap fund is one of the best performers in its category The chart below shows...

Canara Robeco Mutual Fund has launched a thematic fund NFO, Canara Robeco Manufacturing Fund. The fund will invest in companies from different industry sectors that come under the manufacturing theme. The Government with its “Make in India” policy aims to make India a global manufacturing hub. Changing global...

We have stated a number of times in our blog that you can put the idle money in your savings bank account to productive use by investing it in overnight, liquid and ultra-short duration funds. All three debt mutual fund categories invest primarily in money market instruments, but there are differences...

ICICI Prudential Value Series 1 and 2 were launched towards the end of 2013 as three year close ended schemes. With the benefit of hindsight, we can say that the timing of subscription to these Value Series schemes were just great. The equity market was...

Domestic consumption is one of the most important themes of the India Growth Story. India enjoys a demographic advantage as far as this theme is concerned. We have a young population; the average age is just 29 years (Source: Ministry of External Affairs). As per National Family Health Survey 2021, 88% of the population is...

2014 was a terrific year for the equity markets in India. The Sensex rose by nearly 30% during the year on the back of the Lok Sabha election results and expectations of turnaround in the economy. Mutual funds saw...

The equity market is prone to fluctuate between highs and lows. In the long run above 3 years, the troughs in equity performance have historically always been followed by a correction and then rising markets. These points in the downward markets are where valuations are attractive...

Stock market capped of the year 2023 with Nifty and Sensex making record highs in December. The markets cheered Fed’s indication in its December FOMC meeting that there will be multiple rate cuts in 2024. India was the standout outperformer in the emerging markets pack; in CY 2023...

The Nifty 50 Index made it to its all-time high towards the end of November and has since then retreated for higher levels due to profit booking. The Nifty 50 index clocked gains after RBI cut repo rate by 25 bps, but the rally was short-lived. Despite Q2 GDP growth at 8.2% exceeding expectations, the market scenario is facing...