SBI Mutual Fund is launching a New Fund Offer (NFO) which will invest in US equities – SBI INTERNATIONAL ACCESS – US EQUITY FOF. The NFO is a fund of fund (FOF) investing in Amundi Funds – US Pioneer Funds.Amundi is one of the leading Asset Management Companies (AMC) of the world with over $2.1 trillion of assets under...Read More

Retirement planning is one of the most ignored financial goals in most Indian households even though it is the one of the most important, if not the most important life-stage goals for most families. According to SBI Mutual Fund, India is expected to move from a predominantly young population to an aging population in the next 30...Read More

Midcaps had been underperforming versus large caps since 2018. But midcaps have outperformed large caps over the past six months or so. With stock market at all-time high, midcaps have the potential to outperform large caps over sufficiently long investment horizon. Though midcaps are more volatile than large caps, they have...Read More

Contra is an investing strategy which is opposite to the market trend. Contra fund managers invest in stocks that are currently underperforming due to short term issues but which have good growth potential in the medium to long term. Warren Buffet’s famous quote, “be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are...Read More

ETF or Exchange Traded Fund is an instrument which invests in the basket of securities that, reflects the composition of a market index like Nifty, Sensex, Nifty – 100, etc. ETFs aim to replicate the performance of an index as closely as possible. Unlike actively managed funds, ETFs do not aim to beat the market. After the NFO subscription...Read More

Children’s future is the most important concern for all parents. Child’s higher education, career and marriage are among the most important milestones of the life-stage of investors. With growing economic opportunities in the country, aspirations are also changing compared to what it was one or two generations back. In the past, parents...Read More

The equity market has been highly volatile since the outbreak of Coronavirus pandemic. Though Sensex has recovered handsomely in the last 3 months, it is still almost flat on a trailing twelve month basis. Almost all industry sectors have been badly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic with one exception – healthcare, a sector which was...Read More

Multi Asset Allocation funds are hybrid mutual fund schemes which invest in 3 or more asset classes. According to SEBI regulations multi asset allocation funds must invest minimum 10% each in at least 3 asset classes. Apart from the two most popular asset classes, debt and equity, these schemes invest in asset classes like gold, real estate...Read More

Interest rates have been falling for the past couple of years. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak Reserve Bank of India has cut the repo rate by 115 bps, prompting banks to bring down fixed deposit interest rates even lower. General 2 to 5 year FD interest rates of major public and private sector banks are now in the range of...Read More

With rising concern about credit risk among mutual fund investors, one debt fund category which is seeing a lot of investor interest in Banking and PSU funds. As the name suggests these funds invest in debt and money market instruments issued by banks, public sector undertakings and public financial institutions. The debt issued...Read More