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With bank deposit interest rates on a declining trend, investor interest in debt mutual funds has been rising over the past few years. Debt funds not only provide diversification benefits and relative stability to your investment portfolio, they are more tax efficient compared to the traditional fixed income investment options like Bank FDs...

Balanced Advantage Funds dynamically rebalance their asset allocation between equity and debt based on a dynamic asset allocation model. If equity valuations are low, then dynamic asset allocation model will increase asset allocation to equity and reduce allocation to debt. If equity valuations are high, then the model will reduce allocation...

Bank of India Mutual Fund has launched a new fund offer (NFO), Bank of India Business Cycle Fund. The fund focuses on riding business cycles by identifying and investing in growth themes through dynamic allocation across sectors and stocks at different stages of business cycle, resulting from the impact of medium...

Quant funds are thematic equity mutual fund schemes which use quantitative investment strategies. Stock selection of quant funds are based on mathematical models. The fund managers of quant schemes are responsible for developing and reviewing the mathematical models on a periodic basis, and make updates to...

If you invested Rs 10 lakhs in Axis Focused 25 Fund at the time of its NFO around 11 years back (2012) your investment would have multiplied 4 times (source: Advisorkhoj, as on 26^th June 2023). Axis Focused 25 Fund is one of the most popular schemes in its category with Rs 15,680 crores of assets under management...

Nippon India MF has launched a New Fund Offer (NFO), Nippon India MNC Fund. The fund will invest in multinational companies i.e., companies which have business and operations in multiple countries. In current market conditions with geopolitical uncertainties, MNCs with strong global brands, bigger market access...

Principal Focused Multi-cap Fundinvests in about 30 stocks of different sizes (large cap, midcap and small cap) with high growth potential across different industry sectors. As per SEBI’s mandate for focused funds, the maximum number of stocks in the scheme’s portfolio will be limited to 30 only. This scheme was launched in 2005 and has given...

While evaluating performance, a lot of attention is given to returns while ignoring the risk taken to achieve the returns. Investors have limited control over the quantum of returns they can generate. But certainly, they have more control over how much risk they are willing to take. It is commonly believed that by taking higher risk you would generate...

Axis AMC has now launched its NFO: Axis Nifty IT Index Fund. The NFO period is from 27-Jun-2023 to 11-Jul-2023. The fund’s objective is to provide returns before expenses that correspond to the total returns of the NIFTY IT TRI subject to tracking errors. The Nifty IT index comprises of the 10 largest IT companies in...

How do you select mutual fund schemes for your investments? Most investors only check past performance. While returns are an important consideration for investing in mutual funds, there are other important factors you need to keep in mind to achieve your investment objectives. In this article, we will discuss...