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Date: 25/06/2018

Mutual fund investments in debt securities lowest in 5 years

Mutual funds pulled out ₹ 14,085.55 crore from debt securities in May 2018, as compared to mutual fund inflows of ₹ 20,164.82 crore in April and ₹ 9,514.37 crore in May 2017...Read more...Mint

Date: 25/06/2018

Equity Strategy: Prefer large-caps over mid-caps

Bet on banks (private corporate and retail), discretionary consumption, industrials and domestic materials, while avoiding healthcare, staples, utilities & global materials...Read more...Financial Express

Date: 25/06/2018

HDFC Mutual Fund's perks to distributors make industry see red

Fund house has made equity share placement to key distributors ahead of its IPO; rivals see it as conflict of interest...Read more...Business Standard

Date: 23/06/2018

Re-categorisation is over. Is it time to start exiting unsuitable mutual fund schemes?

Mutual fund houses, it seems, are done with the process of the re-categorisation and rationalisation of schemes as per Sebi diktat...Read more...Economic Times

Date: 23/06/2018

Not equities alone, better invest in fixed income assets too: A Balasubramanian, ABSL AMC

Return expectation from an equity investment point of view have to be nominal this year -- GDP plus 3-4% over a five year time frame, says A Balasubramanian, Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC Limited (ABSL AMC), tells ET Now...Read more...Economic Times

Date: 22/06/2018

Private insurers focus on Ulips for individual business

The product mix is slowly shifting towards Ulips as stringent cap on surrender charges offer better proposition to policyholder than traditional par-savings...Read more...Financial Express

Date: 22/06/2018

Fee does not matter in actively managed equity funds

Choose index funds and debt schemes that have a low expense ratio...Read more...Business Standard

Date: 22/06/2018

HNIs moving away from equities to FMPs and real estate

ET Intelligence Group: High net worth individuals (HNIs) are gradually shifting away from the equity market, show the latest data from Association of Mutual Funds of India (AMFI)...Read more...Economic Times

Date: 22/06/2018

Stay away from the second tranche of Bharat 22 ETF

Over the last six months, the performance of the Bharat 22 ETF at -6.5% as against 4.5% from BSE Sensex for the same period doesn’t inspire confidence...Read more...Mint

Date: 21/06/2018

FIIs' 2018 net investment at $15 million, DIIs' at $7.9 billion

FII flows have seen a bumpy ride so far this year, with a meagre investment of $15 million, while domestic institutional investors (DIIs) continue to invest more aggressively into the Indian equity market and have bought net assets worth $7.9 billion, says a report...Read more...Economic Times

Date: 21/06/2018

Inflation a major concern though output gap closed: RBIs' MPC

Inflation emerged as the most important concerns for the members of RBI’s monetary policy committee (MPC) which unanimously voted for a 25 bps hike in its key policy rate during its meeting on July 06...Read more...Economic Times

Date: 21/06/2018

Sebi’s mutual fund reclassification: What are the changes?

Around 20%-30% of mutual fund schemes have seen a change in investment style after the Sebi-mandated recategorisation exercise...Read more...Mint

Date: 20/06/2018

Equity mutual fund assets to market cap at all-time high

Equity assets under management (AUM) as a percentage of India's market capitalisation (m-cap) hit an all-time high of 5.4 per cent in May...Read more...Economic Times

Date: 20/06/2018

Investors may have some confusion in near term, says Balasubramanian,

The process of re-categorisation and rationalisation of mutual funds is almost over. The exercise was meant to make life simple for investors, but it has caused a lot of confusion among investors...Read more...Economic Times

Date: 20/06/2018

Domestic mutual funds are selling these smallcaps and midcaps in hordes. Check out why

And you thought midcaps and smallcaps have been under pressure over the past three months because of the Sebi reclassification, requiring mutual funds to rejig their portfolios?...Rad more...Economic Times

Date: 19/06/2018

PPF, NSC, other small saving schemes interest rates likely to increase

Feeling worried about the rise in your home loan rate? The clouds have a silver lining. The rise in the interest rates also mean that small savings rates will get revised upwards...Read more...Economic Times

Date: 19/06/2018

Mutual fund managers go 'bottom up' in May: All you need to know

Changes to portfolio holding suggest fund managers have been following bottom-up approach for stock picking amid spike volatility in May...Read more...Business Standard

Date: 19/06/2018

Financial advisors' body moves Sebi over ban on distributors

Sebi's latest consultation paper expands the ambit of the proposed regulations from an individual to his relatives...Read more...Business Standard

Date: 19/06/2018

MFs see dip in AUM, outflow in May

However, equity sees inflows despite weak market conditions...Read more...Business Line

Date: 19/06/2018

Top fund manager doles out contra ideas to make money

When the market behaves erratically, it requires out-of-the-box thinking to make money. In market parlance, it is called contrarian bets...Read more...Economic Times