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Source: Live Mint The Kotak Small Cap Fund is a small cap equity mutual fund that is focused on primarily investing in lesser known, emerging businesses. Now before considering investing in this mutual fund you should know about several key parameters such as the fund’s inception, recent performance, basic investment strategy along with investor suitability…
Source: Live Mint AMFI data February: Inflows into equity mutual funds in February slid to ₹29, 303 crore against ₹39,687 crore in January. It is worth recalling that the equity inflow had also declined in January as well on month-on-month basis. Steep fall was witnessed in the mid and small cap funds where monthly inflow…
Source: Live Mint This crucial metric for stress tests, as mandated by the Securities and Exchange Board of India, indicates higher liquidity risks in the small-cap segment even as investors flock to these stocks, lured by their promise of high returns. According to some experts, a high liquidity risk could also point to the low quality…
Source: Live Mint Investors should avoid systematic investment plans (SIPs) in small cap and mid cap mutual funds right now and even consider redeeming their investments in such funds as valuations are ‘absurd’, S Naren, executive director and chief investment officer of ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company, said on 25 January at an event organised…
Source: Live Mint Rohit Murarka, Business Head, Kotak Cherry believes the market is expecting some kind of stimulus in the budget as the overall economy, especially demand conditions, is facing a slowdown. Murarka suggested that investors diversify investments across various asset classes like equities, fixed income, real estate, and commodities. This strategy helps mitigate risks…
Source: Live Mint If you are planning to invest in a mutual fund scheme, it is quite usual to evaluate the past returns of that scheme and compare the same with its rivals in the same category. Although past returns do not guarantee the future returns, they, however, give a sense of the scheme’s potential…
Source: Live Mint Before you invest in a mutual fund, it is natural to evaluate its past returns and compare the same with its peers in the same category. Although past returns do not guarantee a scheme’s future returns, they give an indication of a mutual fund scheme’s growth potential. Besides the absolute returns, investors…
Source: Live Mint The latest stress test ofmutual funds reveals that the mid cap schemes will take as long as 32-34 days to liquidate 50 percent of their portfolio. At the same time, small cap mutual funds will take as long as 54 to 56 days for the same, shows the latest data shared onAMFI’s…
Source: Live Mint Around nine months after the stress tests for small and mid cap funds became mandatory for mutual fund houses, some of these funds would still require as long as 43 to 56 days to liquidate 50 percent of their portfolio in case of a stress event, reveals the latest data for October. This…
Source: Live Mint Amit Upadhyaya, a Pune-based corporate executive, has achieved financial independence at age 46. Despite working for a French multinational (Dassault Systemes) for two decades, Upadhyaya does not credit his wealth to a high corporate salary or employee stock options. He sees it as the outcome of investing in the right stocks and…
