Category: Mutual Fund Research
Observations, recommendations and insights, straight from our Mutual Fund Research Desk
Time to Get Active on Passive Funds?
June 25, 2020Globally, as a majority of the actively-managed funds have been underperforming their benchmark indices for a long time, investor money has been flowing into low-cost passive (or index) funds. In…Continue Reading
Should You Invest In Gold?
June 10, 2020Wow or Oops! Let us look at the recent Gold ETF returns.. Wow! We need to invest in Gold ETF 🙂 But hang on. Let us rewind 1 year back..…Continue Reading
Arbitrage Funds – Look Before You Leap
June 3, 2020Arbitrage funds have seen some revival in investor interest in recent times. Most often these funds have been pitched to investors as an alternative to debt funds for parking short-term…Continue Reading
A stimulus for ‘Survival’ and not ‘Revival’!
May 15, 2020Surpassing expectations, the Prime Minister announced a Rs. 20 lakh crore stimulus package this week. Then came the details. While the package (two tranches so far) has offered relief to…Continue Reading
Up, Up Goes the Market, All Else Goes Down
May 14, 2020We live in difficult times. What started as a medical crisis, spread to the real economy and the financial markets too. That hasn’t happened before. This is where we stand…Continue Reading
Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow about Indian Debt Mutual Funds
May 7, 2020Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow 3 Simple Questions Here are three simple questions. Let us see how quickly you can answer these questions. You are a participant in a race.…Continue Reading
A Tale of Two Indices – Nasdaq 100 vs S&P 500
May 5, 2020In a recent blog ‘This is where Warren Buffett wants his money to be invested….‘, we talked about how the S&P 500 Index is a good investment option if you…Continue Reading
This is where Warren Buffett wants his money to be invested….
April 29, 2020Where do you think the legendary investor Warren Buffett wants his money to be invested after he passes away? In an S&P 500 Index fund. In a letter to Berkshire…Continue Reading
Franklin Templeton winds up 6 Credit Risk Oriented Debt Funds. What does this mean for you?
April 24, 2020What happened? Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund has decided to wind up (read as permanently shut down) the following 6 schemes and return the money back to investors albeit with a…Continue Reading
Why are my debt fund returns volatile these days?
April 17, 2020Given the backdrop of frequent defaults and downgrades in several credit risk oriented funds over the last one year, it is natural to be concerned about the recent volatility in…Continue Reading
