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After a long period of volatility starting from October 2021, the Nifty 50 index has been in a strong bull market and is now at its all time high (as on 30^th June 2023, see chart below). Some investors may be tempted to book profits at these levels by redeeming their investments, but market level based profit booking is not the...

Canara Robeco Mutual Fund is launching a multicap fund, Canara Robeco Multicap Fund. The NFO opens for subscription on 7^th July 2023 and closes on 21^st July 2023. Multicap funds are diversified equity mutual fund schemes which invest across market cap segments i.e. large cap, midcap and small caps...

LIC MF Flexi Cap Fund is one the oldest diversified equity funds in India. The scheme has a 30 year plus track record. It has been underperforming for several years but recently has made a strong comeback. In the last 6 months, LIC MF Flexi Cap Fund has been a top quartile performer, ranking in the Top 5 funds in the Flexicap...

If you invested Rs 10 lakhs in Axis Focused 25 Fund at the time of its NFO around 11 years back (2012) your investment would have multiplied 4 times (source: Advisorkhoj, as on 26^th June 2023). Axis Focused 25 Fund is one of the most popular schemes in its category with Rs 15,680 crores of assets under management...

Axis AMC has now launched its NFO: Axis Nifty IT Index Fund. The NFO period is from 27-Jun-2023 to 11-Jul-2023. The fund’s objective is to provide returns before expenses that correspond to the total returns of the NIFTY IT TRI subject to tracking errors. The Nifty IT index comprises of the 10 largest IT companies in...

PGIM India Flexi Cap Fund has been available for investors since March 04, 2015. As equities are a long-term investment product, one must consider at least 3-yrs returns during this period. The PGIM India Flexi Cap Fund’s trailing 3-year returns stand at 27.1% (Regular Growth plan as of 21-Jun-23). The benchmark (Nifty...

Sundaram Midcap Fund is a phenomenal long term wealth creation story. If you invested Rs 1 lakh in the scheme at the time of its launch in 2002, the value of your investment as on 23^rd June 2023 would have been over Rs 80 lakhs. In other words, Sundaram Midcap Fund would have multiplied your investment by more than 80 times...

Asset allocation is spreading your investments over different asset classes, e.g. equity, fixed income, gold, real estate etc. The primary purpose of asset allocation is to balance risk and returns. If you are over-invested in one particular asset class, you may take too much risk or get sub-optimal portfolio returns. Through asset...

Motilal Oswal Midcap Fund was launched in Feb 2014. Since inception, the fund has given returns of 20%. To make it simpler, an investor who would have invested Rs 1 lakh when the fund was launched would be standing at Rs 5.65 lakh in their portfolio. This is phenomenal because if someone had invested...

Axis growth opportunities fund has been one of the best-performing large- and mid-cap funds in the last 1 year. The scheme was launched nearly 5 years back, and its performance since inception is stellar. If you invested Rs 1 lakh in the scheme at its inception / NFO in October 2018, your investment...