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silver ETFs
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Aarati Krishnan

Do you really need silver ETFs in your portfolio?

These Silver ETFs intend to invest at least 95% of their assets in silver of 99.9% purity. They will benchmark themselves to the daily silver โ€˜fixingโ€™ – a benchmark price published by the London Bullion Market Association, translated into Rupees.ย ย 

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Prime Debt outlook 2022
Bonds & Deposits
Aarati Krishnan

Prime Debt outlook 2022 – Interesting times ahead for debt investors

So whatโ€™s ahead for the prime debt outlook 2022? Do we expect rates to now sidle sideways or to continue their climb?ย Though the onset of Omicron may see the MPC continue to make dovish noises and delay repo rate hikes as much as it can, we think that market interest rates will continue to climb in 2022 irrespective of whether or not MPC acts.

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Prime Funds performance
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PrimeInvestor Research Team

Prime Funds performance in 2021

Prime Funds performance in 2021
Stock markets did not disappoint you in 2021. The various market cap segments delivered textbook-like bull market returns with small caps outperforming midcaps and midcaps outperforming large caps.

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changes in Prime Funds
Research Reports
PrimeInvestor Research Team

Quarterly review โ€“ changes in Prime Funds, our mutual fund recommendations

If you have noticed the portfolios of dynamic asset allocation funds with a fundamental-only driven model, you will see them sporting net equity holdings of under 40% now. In a market where over 40% of the stocks have a price earnings ratio of over 50 times or no PE at all (i.e., the company is loss-making), dynamic asset allocation funds can draw little comfort in holding higher allocation to equity.ย 

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HDFC Developed World Indexes FOF
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Bhavana Acharya

NFO Review: HDFC Developed World Indexes FOF

This is the HDFC Developed World Indexes FOF, a fund that aims to track the MSCI World index. Whatโ€™s this index, how does the fund plan to track it, and does it fit a portfolio? Letโ€™s dig in.

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steel stocks, steel sector results, sector review, steel sector results review
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N V Chandrachoodamani

Steel Stocks – Hot and Shining!

For the first quarter of FY-22 listed steel stocks have generated profits that are already three-fourth that of the full year ending FY-21. The sector has thus stood out for its June quarter earnings, the 2nd wave of Covid lockdown and drop in consumption notwithstanding. Higher prices and export opportunities buttressed earnings despite a drop in domestic sales.ย 

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Franklin Judgement
General
PrimeInvestor Research Team

Franklin judgement – Whatโ€™s said and whatโ€™s left unsaid

SEBI has come out with its order regarding lโ€™affaire Franklin Templeton debt funds. The 100-page document is categorical in its indictment of the AMC and the ways in which these debt funds were managed. 2 messages are clear from the order: One, investor protection is paramount to the regulator. Two, fund managers and AMCs cannot take their fund management responsibility lightly.

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debt funds
Mutual funds & ETFs
Bhavana Acharya

Which debt funds to hold now and other questions, answered

Debt funds are back to worrying many of you. Returns are dipping, thereโ€™s a lot of talk on yield movements both at home and in the US, thereโ€™s the question of where rates will head now. Over the course of the past several weeks, we have fielded several questions from you on what this means and what you should be doing with your debt funds.

Weโ€™ve written extensively on the developments in the debt space in different articles. But hereโ€™s answering the questions that appear to worry you the most.

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target maturity
Mutual funds & ETFs
Vidya Bala

2 target maturity government bond fund NFOs โ€“ Should you invest?

Target maturity funds invest with a stated maturity and pay you back when the maturity is reached. You can call them an FMP but one that is open-ended and takes fresh inflows and outflows.
With yields beginning to move up, more funds are now beginning to talk about โ€˜roll down strategyโ€™ or a strategy where a maturity date is fixed thereby ensuring that the portfolioโ€™s average maturity steadily falls as it nears maturity. For example, a 2027 target date fund will have a 6-year maturity now and a 5-year maturity in 2022 and so on, until the maturity reduces to near zero in 2027.

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