A high-risk scheme with CRISIL Liquid Fund Index as its benchmark!

It’s all very fine for the market regulator to dash off a letter to MoneyLIFE on behalf of fund companies coming out with mis-labelled schemes, but the supply of funny schemes from the fund industry looks endless as the MoneyLIFE fund analyses have been pointing out. To that long list, here is the newest addition, one just...

These funds have negligible public participation. Yet, the regulator allows these to remain in the public domain!

Mutual funds are meant for the public, just as listed equity shares are. But while listed companies have to ensure a minimum public participation, mutual funds are exempt from it. This is bizarre but true.

If the public holding of shares falls below a certain percentage, a...

Of the 15 mid-cap funds with a one-year record, only 7 have beaten their benchmarks. Analysis by ML Research Desk

MoneyLIFE has been extensively tracking the performance of the fund industry since its launch and has proved, through its research, that more than half the funds fail to beat their benchmarks at any given time. No matter what kind of funds we analyse - equity diversified funds,...