Dwaipayan Bose Articles

Nippon India MF has launched a new fund offer (NFO), Nippon India Nifty 500 Equal Weight Index Fund. As the name suggests, the fund tracks Nifty 500 Equal Weight Index. Nippon India MF as an asset management company (AMC) has deep expertise in passive products. The AMC has more than 30 Exchange...

Bank of India Mutual Fund has launched a new fund offer (NFO), Bank of India Business Cycle Fund. The fund focuses on riding business cycles by identifying and investing in growth themes through dynamic allocation across sectors and stocks at different stages of business cycle, resulting from the impact of medium...

Mirae Asset Large and Midcap Fund is one of the most popular diversified equity funds among retail investors. The fund has the highest asset under management (AUM) in the large and midcap funds category. According to SEBI’s mandate, large and midcap funds must invest minimum 35% of their assets in large cap...

Canara Robeco Consumer Trends Fund is one of the best performing consumption funds over the last 10 years. If you invested Rs 1 lakh in this fund 10 years back, your investment would have multiplied nearly 5.5X to Rs 5.37 lakhs. India is a consumption driven economy – historical data shows that consumption...

2024 has been a very interesting year for the Indian stock market. While the broad trend of the market has been bullish, we have also seen periods of volatility in certain pockets and even in the broad market. In the first half of the year Nifty 50 TRI (Total return Index) gave 11.3% return while the broader market...

Canara Robeco MF is launching a Balanced Advantage Fund. The New Fund Offer (NFO) has opened for subscription on 12th July and close on 26th July. The fund will follow a dynamic asset allocation model. In this article, we will review this Canara Robeco Balanced Advantage Fund NFO. The market is trading at record highs...

Franklin Templeton MF has launched a new diversified equity fund, Franklin India Multi Cap Fund. The New Fund Offer opened for subscription on 8th July and will close on 22nd July 2024. This open ended equity mutual fund scheme will invest in all three market cap segments, large cap, midcap and small cap, with minimum...

Services sector is the largest contributor to India’s GDP, contributing nearly 55% to Gross Value Add (source: Press note on provisional FY 2023-24 GDP estimate, Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation, Government of India). The services sector is also a major source of employment in our country accounting...

Though index funds have experienced huge growth in assets under management (AUM) over the last few years, there is relatively less awareness about factor based index funds or smart beta index funds. Factor indices are constructed based on quantitative, rule based investment strategies based on factors which...

The stock market is trading at its record high despite bouts of high volatility from time to time. Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) have been net sellers on an YTD basis in 2024. There are multiple factors at play. FIIs are shifting their emerging market allocations from India to China because from their...