mutual funds

Prime Recommendation: The best fund in the balanced advantage category

The balanced advantage category (called the balanced advantage/dynamic asset allocation category or BA/DAA) has received a lot of attention, after a whopping collection of Rs 12,000 crore by SBI Balanced Advantage during its recent NFO. This category is mostly seen as one that delivers equity returns with less risk or one that can be used as an income generation option – neither of which are quite right. In this report we get into detail about one of our already recommended funds in this space, while also explaining when and how to use a fund in this category.

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Quarterly review – changes in Prime Funds, our mutual fund recommendations

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. Many of you have asked us how we differ from the various MF recommendations out there in the market. The changes we have made in this review cycle are here.

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Prime Recommendation: A midcap fund for any long-term portfolio

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.

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SEBI’s new rule on market-caps in multi-cap funds – what it means for you

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.

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The rise and fall of HDFC Top 100

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.

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Prime Recommendation: A thematic fund that actually diversifies your portfolio

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?

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Quarterly review – changes in Prime Funds, our fund recommendations

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

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Quarterly review – Changes in buy/ sell/ hold calls in our fund review tool

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

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Quarterly review – Which fund ratings have changed in Prime Ratings?

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

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Stamp duty on your mutual fund purchases: does it impact you?

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

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