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FundsIndia Views: SEBI’s new categories – what’s changing in your equity funds

Vidya Bala

A month ago, we wrote about what SEBI’s scheme re-categorization means for you. Now, with a good chunk of the changes announced by AMCs, we’d like to get into what…Continue Reading

HDFC Balanced is merging into another fund and will be called HDFC Hybrid Equity fund. What's in store for investors?

FundsIndia Views: HDFC Balanced is merging. Should you worry?

Bhavana Acharya

For investors in HDFC Balanced fund, last week dropped what seemed a bombshell. HDFC Balanced is merging into another fund. Is this worrisome? What changes in the fund? Should you…Continue Reading

Why are investors exiting their real-estate investments?

FundsIndia Views: Why people are exiting their real estate investments

Vidya Bala

When there is a trend to the behavioural pattern of our investors, we like to understand it. The current trend we are observing in our investors and many around us…Continue Reading

We've made some changes to the FundsIndia research recommended Select Funds mutual fund list

Changes to FundsIndia’s Select Funds

Mutual Fund Research Desk

These are changing times for mutual funds. In October 2017, SEBI came up with two important rules: one, it defined the categories of funds AMCs are allowed to hold and…Continue Reading

FundsIndia Recommends: DSP BlackRock Credit Risk Fund

Bhavana Acharya

In its monetary policy last week, the Reserve Bank held policy rates, lowered inflation forecasts but still cited several risks to inflation. A couple of weeks prior, the government announced…Continue Reading

FundsIndia Views: Scheme re-categorization and what it means for you

Vidya Bala

You would have been receiving mails from fund houses and from us on changes in scheme categories of funds, to fit into SEBI’s newly defined categories. If you are not…Continue Reading

FundsIndia Reviews: Franklin India High Growth Companies

Bhavana Acharya

Franklin India High Growth Companies (Franklin HG), an equity fund that invests across market capitalisations, was once among those that delivered outsized returns compared to peers and the market. In…Continue Reading

FundsIndia Recommends Mirae Asset India Equity - a large-cap oriented equity fund that scores high on consistency and risk-adjusted returns

FundsIndia Recommends: Mirae Asset India Equity

Bhavana Acharya

Mirae Asset India Equity (earlier Mirae Asset India Opportunities) ticks all the boxes that characterize a good equity fund. One, it stays ahead of the market and peers across timeframes.…Continue Reading

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FundsIndia Recommends: DSP BlackRock Opportunities

Bhavana Acharya

Opportunistic is a good way to describe DSP BlackRock Opportunities (DSPBR Opportunities). This equity fund aims at identifying stocks with potential, booking profits in them quickly, and moving on to…Continue Reading

FundsIndia Recommends: Reliance Medium Term Fund

Vidya Bala

Investors with a minimum 2-year time frame and with some risk appetite can consider investing in a short-term debt fund like Reliance Medium Term. Given the present high yield scenario,…Continue Reading