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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...

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...

The equity market has been challenging over the past few months. The Nifty is down more than 2,000 points from its all time high. High inflation is providing headwinds to economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Central banks around the world e.g. US Fed, RBI etc. are adopting increasingly hawkish stances...

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...

The market is in recovery phase after President Trump announced a 90 day pause on his administration’s proposed tariffs on imports from the United States’ trading partner. The market is hopeful that a mutually satisfactory resolution will be achieved on tariffs in the next 90 days. The Nifty is...

Short term funds, also known as short duration funds, are debt mutual fund schemes which invest in debt and money market instruments such that the Macaulay Duration of the scheme is 1 to 3 years. Macaulay duration is the weighted average of the period the investor should remain invested in the security in...

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...

The market has been rocked by bouts of volatility since the beginning of this year (CY 2025) due to variety of factors, primarily Trump Administration’s trade policies, geo-political tensions, rising US debt etc. Though market has rallied after RBI announced the 50 bps rate cut, there is anxiety in global equity...

We have covered Principal Emerging Bluechip Fund a number of times in our fund reviews. The scheme has been a strong performer over a long investment horizon (5 years plus), but the fund underperformed in 2018 and also in the first half of 2019. We had discussed the reasons for the 2018-19 underperformance of this scheme...

Quantum Mutual Fund has launched the Quantum Nifty 50 ETF Fund of Fund. The scheme will invest in units of Quantum Nifty 50 ETF. Quantum Nifty 50 ETF has more than 14 years of track record. This fund will provide investors, who do not have Demat accounts, the opportunity to invest in...