“These 10 funds have given 20% returns in five years”—reads a catchy piece on a popular news site. Another article mentions how 45% of mutual fund (MF) schemes have underperformed their benchmark in one year. News pieces similar to these are published on a daily basis and are widely read by...
Equity markets are going through a rough patch. Around three quarters of the NIFTY 500 stocks have delivered negative returns year-to-date and in the past one year. It was mainly the mid- and small-cap categories which saw deeper erosion in their stock price. But even large-cap companies,...
The best three and the worst three mutual fund (MF) schemes over the past three years ranked by their quarterly rolling returns. Premium members get access to a more refined list of top schemes by logging into Moneylife Advisory
The securities market regulator chief Ajay Tyagi recently criticised mutual fund (MF) companies for investing beyond their capacity and not following best practices. Debt schemes, posed as safe investments, saw severe losses due to holding debt paper of risky firms and for entering into...
Since inception, Motilal Oswal Mutual Fund (Motilal Oswal) wanted to be different. In its first avatar, it launched an exchange-traded fund (ETF) based on the concept of fundamental index, created specifically for the purpose, called MOSt50. We had reviewed this fund and expected it to do...
