Bhavana Acharya
Bhavana Acharya was the Deputy Head of Mutual Fund Research at FundsIndia.
FundsIndia Recommends: Invesco India Tax Plan
October 4, 2017Short on time? Listen to a brief overview of this week’s review. Traditional go-to options to save on taxes are bank or post office deposits, public provident fund, or national…Continue Reading
FundsIndia Recommends: HDFC Medium Term Opportunities
September 20, 2017Short on time? Listen to a brief overview of this week’s review. HDFC Medium Term Opportunities is a long-term debt fund. It earns its returns through interest accrued on the…Continue Reading
Mutual funds are betting big on the financial sector
September 8, 2017Banking and financial services are the most favoured sectors for equity mutual funds, with both sectors seeing their share in equity fund AUM inching steadily higher. Data from SEBI show…Continue Reading
FundsIndia Recommends: Aditya Birla Sun Life Balanced ‘95
September 6, 2017Short on time? Listen to a brief overview of this week’s review. A new entrant to the Select Funds list in our June quarter review is Aditya Birla Sun Life…Continue Reading
FundsIndia Strategies: The why and how of portfolio diversification
August 23, 2017Short on time? Listen to a brief overview of this week’s review. [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/339133316″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Looking at double-digit returns in the stock market, it may seem…Continue Reading
FundsIndia Recommends: ICICI Prudential Value Discovery
August 9, 2017Short on time? Listen to a brief overview of this week’s review. [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/337126332″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] ICICI Prudential Value Discovery has long been an investor favourite.…Continue Reading
Mid and small cap funds turning wary of small-cap stocks
July 28, 2017Small-cap stocks have been the market favourite for four years now. Funds focused on this market segment, however, are turning cautious. The proportion of their portfolios invested in small-cap stocks…Continue Reading
FundsIndia Recommends: Parag Parikh Long Term Value Fund
July 26, 2017When we reviewed Parag Parikh Long Term Value last year, the fund had just crossed the 3-year milestone. In our review for the quarter ending June 2017, we included the…Continue Reading
Equity funds are shunning software stocks
July 14, 2017That the software sector is struggling is old news. Software results declared so far aren’t inspiring either. One AMC expanded the scope of its IT fund, while another plans to…Continue Reading
FundsIndia Recommends: Birla SL Floating Rate Fund – Long Term Plan
June 28, 2017Ultra short-term funds are useful vehicles to park money you need a few months down the line, to add to your emergency corpus, or to set up systematic withdrawals post…Continue Reading
