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FAQs: What does the recent rate hike mean for your debt funds?

Mutual funds & ETFs

FAQs: What does the recent rate hike mean for your debt funds?

We bet you must be tired of hearing about rate hikes and debt funds and strategies! But if your queries, comments and activity on our newly-launched PrimeInvestor Community are any indications, there are still several questions many of you have over your funds.

So, here’s collecting them all and explaining what you should be doing with your debt funds and if you need to do anything different in light of the latest round of rate hikes.

Bhavana Acharya February 9, 2023 23 Comments

Mutual funds & ETFs

5 reasons to avoid PSU ETFs

The list of top performing equity funds for the past year features a couple of unusual entries. With a return of 18-21 per cent, CPSE ETF (managed by Nippon India Mutual Fund for the government of India) and the Bharat 22 ETF (managed by ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund) are top rankers among equity funds.
This has many investors asking if they should add these passive funds to their portfolio. The portfolios of CPSE and Bharat 22 ETFs are made up of the PSU oil, energy and financial giants which are the flavour of the season. These ETFs’ costs are ultra-low because they are used as divestment vehicles. Both ETFs would also seem to be ‘value buys’ if you go by their ultra-cheap valuations. The CPSE ETF trades at a portfolio PE of 7 times and Bharat 22 ETF at about 11 times. This is a fraction of the current Nifty50 PE at over 21 times.
But does this make them worth betting on? There are five good reasons for long-term stock investors to steer clear of these ETFs.

Aarati Krishnan January 17, 2023 5 Comments

Quarterly review: Prime Portfolios performance review & quarter changes

Mutual funds & ETFs

Quarterly Review: Prime Portfolios performance review & quarter changes

Prime Portfolios are a set of 19 unique portfolios that meet over 30 different investor timeframes and needs. Prime Portfolios are listed under Ready-to-use-portfolios in the Recommendations dropdown. These portfolios primarily use mutual funds, but where there are better-suited products such as deposits or government schemes, the portfolios include those as well.

We review these portfolios every quarter and make changes to remove underperformers or to include any new investment opportunity or product that may come by. At the end of each year, we review the performance of key portfolios, in addition to discussing the changes we make.

PrimeInvestor Research Team January 5, 2023 2 Comments

Quarterly review - Changes to recommendations in Prime Funds and Prime ETFs

Mutual funds & ETFs

Quarterly review: Changes to recommendations in Prime Funds & Prime ETFs

Prime Funds is our list of recommendations in equity, debt, and hybrid mutual funds that are worth investing in. Prime Funds narrows down your choices from the thousands of funds that there are, into a concise list of funds that span different styles. Prime Funds are selected based on performance, portfolios, and investment strategies.

In this quarter’s review, we have added to equity funds to play themes that are ripe and made changes to the hybrid recommendations to include better return options. We have made minimal changes to our debt fund recommendations.

PrimeInvestor Research Team January 3, 2023 24 Comments

Mutual funds & ETFs

Prime Funds performance in 2022

The close of another year means that it’s the time we review how our recommendations have done. We published our Prime Stocks report card a few days ago. In this instalment, we cover Prime Funds performance in 2022

PrimeInvestor Research Team December 22, 2022 8 Comments

General

Why you shouldn’t fall for ESG pitches

“Why are the so-called expert investors in India so disinterested in ESG funds?”. A young investor asked me this question at a recent event and it gave me food for thought. It is true that at PrimeInvestor, we are not fans of ESG investing either. We don’t go out of our way to cover ESG funds or ‘green’ bonds and deposits, unless they offer great returns.

Aarati Krishnan December 18, 2022 3 Comments

ULIP vs. Mutual Fund - where should you invest?

Mutual funds & ETFs

ULIP vs. Mutual Fund – where should you invest?

As far as investment products go, ULIPs (short for Unit Linked Insurance Products) have the reputation of being the ‘bad boys’. While investor wariness toward ULIPs in their earlier avatar was justified, they have evolved since their pre-2010 days following changes made by IRDAI. However, ULIPs have still not entirely managed to shake off their reputation. In this article, we pit the present day ULIP vs. mutual funds – and compare them on parameters such as their function, how they invest your money, liquidity, expenses and tax treatment and see how they stack up.

Pavithra Jaivant December 15, 2022 5 Comments

Strategies

Debt fund strategies for the current rate scenario

The Reserve Bank’s monetary policy on Wednesday served up another repo rate hike of 35 basis points, adding to the 190 basis points through this year. That takes the repo rate to 6.25% from the Covid low of 4%. The key driving factor behind the rapid rate hikes – that of inflation – still remains. The RBI has clearly spelt its commitment to bringing inflation within the target range, even in its latest monetary policy.
In this light, debt fund strategies you have now, to make the most of the current scenario, can be decided based on what you want:

Bhavana Acharya December 8, 2022 30 Comments

Use this passive fund for your large-and-midcap exposure

Recommendations

Use this passive fund for your large-and-midcap exposure

A few weeks ago, we had written in detail the categories in which we think passive funds have become a necessity to keep your portfolio returns stable; even if you hold active funds. We made this call as performance of active funds were becoming relatively more inconsistent, in a few key categories.

Bhavana Acharya November 20, 2022 18 Comments

Is it time to add passive funds to your portfolio?

Strategies

Is it time to add passive funds to your portfolio?

In any portfolio that features equity funds, the long-running debate is whether one should go for active or passive funds. We, on the other hand, have held that a portfolio can well feature both active and passive funds using each where it does best. Of late, we have also been of the opinion that there are some categories where you should have passive funds if you are to keep returns up – even if you hold outperforming active funds.

Bhavana Acharya November 1, 2022 14 Comments

General

Mutual funds vs PMS – Pros and Cons

For investors who can write a single cheque of Rs 50 lakh or more, Portfolio Management Services (PMS) have emerged a popular vehicle for investment into equities. In effect, PMS is identical to investing directly in shares, the main difference being that you have given absolute power to the PMS agency to buy/sell shares on your behalf and your portfolio choices are left to them.

R Balakrishnan October 25, 2022 15 Comments

Quarterly update – changes made to Prime Portfolios

Recommendations

Quarterly update – changes made to Prime Portfolios

PrimeInvestor Research Team October 18, 2022 2 Comments

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FAQs: What does the recent rate hike mean for your debt funds?

5 reasons to avoid PSU ETFs

Quarterly Review: Prime Portfolios performance review & quarter changes

Quarterly review: Changes to recommendations in Prime Funds & Prime ETFs

Prime Funds performance in 2022

Why you shouldn’t fall for ESG pitches

ULIP vs. Mutual Fund – where should you invest?

Debt fund strategies for the current rate scenario

Use this passive fund for your large-and-midcap exposure

Is it time to add passive funds to your portfolio?

Mutual funds vs PMS – Pros and Cons

Quarterly update – changes made to Prime Portfolios

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