Edelweiss Mutual Fund has launched another scheme in the Bharat Bond series. The new fund offer (NFO) of Bharat Bond ETF will mature in 2032 and is open for subscription from December 03, 2021 to December 09, 2021. Earlier the fund house had launched Bharat Bond ETFs maturing in 2023, 2025, 2030, and 2031. The minimum investment amount…
Investing in Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) is one of the convenient ways for investors who have long-term goals and want to invest in equity without taking too much risk. ETFs aim to replicate a particular index and offer a diversified portfolio of stocks; this reduces the fund managers’ risk of any bias while stock selection. Moreover, amid…
Index funds are a kind of mutual funds that replicate the underlying index and track an index representing a particular market cap segment, style or asset class. Index funds are a low-cost investment option that offer diversification to a particular asset class along with transparency to investors, as the underlying index constituents are available on…
During its board meeting held in September 2021, SEBI had cleared the launch of Silver Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) allowing domestic mutual funds to launch schemes tracking silver. It has now specified operating norms for Silver ETFs to ensure uniformity of the schemes. These new norms will come into effect from December 09, 2021. According…
The Indian equity markets have bounced back sharply on the back of a healthy GDP growth rate of 8.4% in the second quarter of 2021-22. However, concern about ‘Omicron’ still lingers along with worries about rising inflation and expensive valuations that may keep the equity markets volatile in the near future. In such market conditions,…
COVID-19 has once again sent the equity market into a tizzy. On Friday, November 26, the S&P BSE Sensex tanked by nearly 1,700 points as South Africa reported detection of a new COVID-19 variant that is spreading fast in various countries. This created panic among investors leading to a global sell-off in the equity market, including India.…
The passive investment strategy has been in flavour for the past few years. Accordingly, many fund houses have launched Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) since the start of the financial year looking at investors’ rising interest towards passive equity investing. The passive investment strategy has been preferred over actively managed mutual fund schemes by some investors…
As per the capital market regulator’s new definition, released in September 2020, a Multi-cap Fund is required to allocate a minimum of 25% of its assets each in large-cap, mid-cap, and small-cap stocks. Earlier Multi-cap Funds continued to hold a large-cap biased portfolio, but with this definition investments into the respective market capitalisation segments were…
India’s most-loved and popular payments app company, Paytm (One97 Communications) made a weak stock market debut early this month. The stock of One97 Communications (Paytm) tanked post-listing thereby trapping investors who betted heavily on its IPO, hoping to make quick listing gains. For us at PersonalFN, this wasn’t a surprise given the valuations it “demanded”.…
The Indian equity market offers a multitude of investment opportunities across the market cap spectrum. For investors, the key to wealth creation is identifying potentially growth-worthy investment opportunities and investing in schemes that could sustain various market cycles. A Multicap fund offers investors a disciplined approach towards investing. It aims to invest in companies that…
