Morningstar Announces Winners of 2016 India Fund Awards

MUMBAI, 10 March 2016 – Morningstar Investment Adviser India Pvt. Ltd., a subsidiary of Morningstar, Inc. (NASDAQ: MORN), a leading provider of independent investment research, has announced the winning funds and fund houses for its 2016 India Fund Awards.

The annual Morningstar India Fund Awards are designed to help investors identify the retail funds and fund houses that added the most value for investors within the context of their relevant peer group in 2015 and over longer time periods. Morningstar selects the winners using a quantitative methodology with a qualitative overlay that considers the one-, three-, and five-year performance history of all eligible funds, and adjusts returns for risk using Morningstar Risk, a measure that imposes a higher penalty for downside variation in a fund’s return than it does for upside volatility.

“All of our winners delivered strong three- and five-year returns after adjusting for risk, in addition to outperformance of their peers during the last 12 months,” Kaustubh Belapurkar, Morningstar’s Director of Manager Research for India, said. “These funds and fund houses have demonstrated that they have the ability to earn strong returns over the long-term without undue risk. We believe that taking a patient, long-term view to investing will ultimately help investors reach their financial goals.”

The winners of the 2016 Morningstar India Fund Awards are:

Notes to Editors:

The Morningstar fund category and fund house awards are based on Morningstar fund data as of 31 December 2015. The awards methodology emphasises the one-year period, but funds must also have delivered strong three- and five-year returns after adjusting for risk within the awards peer groups in order to obtain an award. For the full methodology, please click here

References to and commentary on the above-mentioned funds should not be considered a solicitation to buy or sell that fund.

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