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360 ONE Focused Equity Fund, erstwhile IIFL Focused Equity Fund, is one of the best performing focused funds. In the last 1 year, 360 One Focused Equity Fund ranks among the top 3 funds (Mutual Fund Trailing Returns - Equity Focused).

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...

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...

ESG is an acronym for environmental, social and governance, which form the three pillars of this style of investments. Environmental factors relate to impact (favourable or unfavourable) which companies have on climate change, how they use the natural resources, waste management etc. Social factors relates to how companies...

Balanced Advantage Funds, also known as Dynamic Asset Allocation Funds, are hybrid mutual funds which manage their asset allocation dynamically between equity and debt. The asset allocation will change depending on market conditions using quantitative asset allocation models. To know more, read this...

Dynamic Asset Allocation changes equity and debt allocations of the portfolio based on market conditions. Dynamic Asset Allocation models usually increase asset allocation to equity and reduce allocation to debt, if equity valuations fall. If equity valuations increase, then dynamic asset allocation models...

Balanced Advantage Funds dynamically rebalance their asset allocation between equity and fixed income (debt) based on stock market valuations based on a dynamic asset allocation model. If equity valuations are low, then in dynamic...

Canara Robeco Consumer Trends Fund is one of the best performing consumption funds over the last 10 years. If you invested Rs 1 lakh in this fund 10 years back, your investment would have multiplied nearly 5.5X to Rs 5.37 lakhs. India is a consumption driven economy – historical data shows that consumption...

Money market funds are debt mutual schemes which invest in debt and money market instruments with residual maturities of up to 1 year. Money market funds usually invest in commercial papers (CPs), certificates of deposits (CDs), Treasury Bills, overnight securities (TREPs) etc. They can also invest in debt market...

Principal Focused Multi-cap Fund is one of the best performing focused equity funds in the last 6 months to 1 year. The scheme was ranked 4^th among 22 focused equity schemes in terms of last 6 months performance and 4^th among 19 schemes in terms of last 1 year performance. The chart below shows the trailing returns of Principal...