If you are a long-term investor, adding mid-cap funds to your portfolio will drive overall returns. And in such mid-cap exposure, many of you could simply want funds that can deliver returns that are at least better than the mid-cap index and not collapse during market declines.
Prime Recommendation: A midcap fund for any long-term portfolio Read More »
As per this new SEBI multicap rule, a multi-cap fund should allocate 25% each at the minimum to smallcap, midcap and largecap stocks. This is a sea change from the current scenario where multicap funds could have any allocation they wished to, based on their outlook on the market.
SEBI’s new rule on market-caps in multi-cap funds – what it means for you Read More »
HDFC Top 100 was the largest fund in its category for a long time (and is still among the top 5 in its category in AUM). It has shown great mettle in its comeback stories time and again.
Today, for us, it serves a different purpose. HDFC Top 100 is a great candidate for a serious case study on the changing performance of mutual funds in India and what it means to you.
The rise and fall of HDFC Top 100 Read More »
Thematic funds need timing, in entry and exit. They’re there to kick portfolio returns up a few notches. They’re useful in capitalising on pockets of opportunities. Now, what if there was a thematic fund that turned this on its head?
Prime Recommendation: A thematic fund that actually diversifies your portfolio Read More »
Prime Funds is the list of funds that we recommend. This fund list uses Prime Ratings as a first filter, over which we analyse portfolios, strategy, market scenario and much more. Here’s what we aim for, in Prime Funds: To have a range of investment styles. This is important, because as we have stressed many
Quarterly review – changes in Prime Funds, our fund recommendations Read More »
In this second part to our review cycle updates, we’re discussing changes we have made in our mutual fund review tool. In this tool, we give our call on funds – buy, sell, or hold. You can use this tool when reviewing your mutual fund portfolio or for funds where you’re curious about what we
Quarterly review – Changes in buy/ sell/ hold calls in our fund review tool Read More »
It’s the end of our second review cycle, for the April-June 2020 quarter. The updated ratings have now been published. So we’d like to highlight some trends we’re noticing in fund performance, changes in some key fund ratings and why they happened. We’ll be discussing only those categories/funds which need a mention in terms of
Quarterly review – Which fund ratings have changed in Prime Ratings? Read More »
Our video on this first. If you want to read the Q&A go down. Why this sudden charge of Stamp duty? The stamp duty charge is due to an amendment in The Indian Stamp Act,1899 by Finance Act 2019. It requires collection of stamp duty on all securities market instruments, including mutual funds. It was
Stamp duty on your mutual fund purchases: does it impact you? Read More »
Budget 2019 brought some clarification on how the amounts received by an investor in segregated mutual fund units (also called side-pocketed units) need to be taxed
Prime Q&A: How are segregated mutual fund units taxed? Read More »
In a mutual fund, you make returns in two ways. How are mutual funds taxed for each of these ways? It depends on the nature of return.
How are mutual funds taxed? Read More »
At PrimeInvestor, we love mutual funds and consider them to be an ideal investment vehicle for regular investors. We have several portfolios and recommendations tailored to mutual fund investors.
Here are the key lessons from studying the performance of equity funds in 2019.
How did equity funds perform in 2019? Read More »
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