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Yes, the markets are volatile & hence I call them as “Behavior of the Beast”. I have taken data points from April 2018 till April of 2023. It covers the FII, DII & MFs Gross Purchase, Gross Sales & Net Purchase/Sales and the S&P BSE 500 movement. The FIIs have been Net Negative at...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Principal Mutual Fund has launched a large cap fund NFO. As per SEBI’s mandate large cap funds need to invest at least 80% of their assets in the Top 100 companies by market capitalization. Principal Large Cap Fund will invest 80 – 85% of its assets in Indian large cap companies. The scheme will also invest up to 15% in 500 large cap...

ITI Mutual Fund has launched a New Fund Offer (NFO), ITI Large and Midcap Fund. As per SEBI's mandate, large and midcap funds must invest at least 35% of their assets in large cap stocks (top 100 stocks by market capitalization) and minimum 35% of their assets in midcap stocks (101^st to 250^th stocks by market capitalization...

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...

Principal Equity Savings Fund is an open ended hybrid equity oriented mutual fund scheme. The scheme was launched in May 2002. From a taxation standpoint, this fund is treated like an equity fund scheme. Long term capital gains (holding period of more than 12 months) in this fund is tax free. Short term capital gains are taxed at 15%. The...

Over the past few months, debt mutual funds have been in the news for wrong reasons. In September 2018, the shock default by IL&FS (and its subsidiary) on its debt obligation shook the debt markets in which mutual funds are major investors...