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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...

We have reviewed Principal Emerging Bluechip Fund, a large and midcap equity fund from Principal Mutual Fund stable, a number of times in the last few years. In our usual fund reviews, we look at a performance of a scheme across various market conditions, performance versus benchmark and peers, portfolio composition etc. In this post, we...

The debt market has been affected by high inflation over past 12 months or so, with bond yields pushing higher. To cool inflation, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has raised repo rate by 90 bps already this year. As per RBI data (as on 1^st July 2022), the 10 year Government bond yield has...

The global financial markets have been in extraordinary conditions for the past several months. Commodity prices have been very high across the world; crude oil prices are at 10 year high and expected to go up even further, as war rages in Ukraine. Inflation in United States is at a 40 year...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Canara Robeco Mutual Fund is launching a multicap fund, Canara Robeco Multicap Fund. The NFO opens for subscription on 7^th July 2023 and closes on 21^st July 2023. Multicap funds are diversified equity mutual fund schemes which invest across market cap segments i.e. large cap, midcap and small caps...