Last week when I covered a note on Union Midcap Fund, I mentioned how the equity markets have been affected due to the outspread of coronavirus globally. Added to the existing woes of domestic and international macro and microeconomic factors, another news broke on Friday, March 6, 2020, that caused markets to crash further. A hot favorite…

Edelweiss Mutual Fund has come up with an open-ended fund of fund scheme investing primarily in JPMorgan Funds – US Technology Fund, an equity fund which invests primarily in US technology companies with strong fundamentals. A fund of fund (FoF)scheme is a passively managed scheme that mirrors the feeder fund. As per regulations, Fund of fund…

Tata Mutual Fund has launched an open-ended hybrid fund named Tata Multi Asset Opportunities Fund. It will invest predominantly in equity, debt, and exchange-traded commodity derivatives. What is a Multi Asset Fund? As per SEBI classification, a Multi Asset Fund invests in at least three asset classes with a minimum allocation of at least 10% each…

Sundaram Mutual Fund has launched an open-ended hybrid scheme, Sundaram Balanced Advantage Fund. For the investment climate of both the prime asset classes have become uncertain and have gone through extreme turbulence. Plus the sluggish economic growth continues and rising inflation has been worrisome for quiet sometime now. Hence in order to make the most of…

ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund has launched another passively managed fund in the form of Fund of Funds. ICICI Prudential India Equity Fund of Fund (IPIEFOF) is the latest offering from the fund house, where the scheme will invest in units of other equity schemes from ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund and other fund houses. What is a Fund of…

IDFC Mutual Fund launches an open-ended equity scheme, IDFC Emerging Businesses Fund, that will invest predominantly in small cap stocks. This is because a significant correction is seen in the small-cap space, which has presented an opportunity to do value buying. The fund house believes that Price, Valuation, and Volume indicate an attractive Entry Point for investing…

Recently improved market sentiment is taking the indices higher up, and the small-cap index that was hammered down for over a year, gradually is inching up. A significant correction is seen in the small-cap space, which presents an opportunity to do value buying. Some of the fund houses are of the view that these conditions augur…

SBI Asset Management Company is the first Indian financial company to follow the compliance norms of Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS). The firm has been independently verified by ACA Performance Services, LLC for the period of April 1, 2014, through March 31, 2019. GLOBAL INVESTMENT PERFORMANCE STANDARDS (GIPS) are the recognized standard for calculating and presenting…

In the year 2019 and the beginning of 2020, India experienced extreme weather conditions. There was a severe summer, delayed monsoon, cyclones in the nearby waterbodies that led to incessant rainfalls and inundations, smog and an extreme drop in winter temperatures. All of this points to drastic climatic change and global warming. The global warming…

The equity markets have been extremely volatile lately, while the bond markets aren’t safe either. In fact, it has made investors jittery. With both the prime asset classes being uncertain, is there a way out for the investors? However, it is noteworthy that the equity markets are showing some green shoots in terms of attractive…