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MFs up the ante on private banks, increase weight to nearly 21%

Fund managers expect well-managed banks to grab higher market share

Corporate tax rate cuts: Mutual funds use rally to offload winners

On an overall basis, fund houses pumped in Rs 11,000 crore into stocks during the month with the benchmark Nifty ending with 3.6 per cent gain

Big bet on SIPs: MFs garner over Rs 49,000-cr in first six months of FY20

Currently, mutual funds have 2.84 crore SIP accounts through which investors regularly invest in Indian mutual fund schemes

Active funds may not beat index as most don't give remarkable returns

Active MFs' fees are 10-50 times the fees of the most actively traded Nifty50 ETF

Planning to invest in MFs? Know what are the components of expense ratio

Different slabs have been defined for different levels of AUM. Higher the AUM of the fund, lower is its expense ratio

Mutual fund industry sees tepid growth in the September quarter

Indiabulls MF saw its average asset size shrink 50 per cent; PGIM India MF and IDBI MF saw around 20 per cent reduction

Investors struggle to cut losses as shadow banking crisis deepens

Trading in NBFC bonds slid to a five-month low of about Rs 75,520 in the secondary market in September, the lowest since April

Mutual fund houses load up on government securities and treasury bills

MF schemes deployed Rs 1.8 trillion in G-Secs and T-bills in August, which is 52 per cent higher than in last August

Be watchful of expense ratio you pay if your fund manager can't outperform

Coughing up a high expense ratio year after year makes no sense if your fund manager is unable to outperform

BS jury picks five best fund managers in the debt and equity category

Given the focus on safety and quality, the task of choosing money managers in the debt category was tougher than that for equity funds

BS Fund Manager: Can mutual funds win back the confidence of investors?

Given the recent credit events and equity market volatility, the going may not be easy for fund houses

BS Fund Manager: Credit events unlikely to halt industry's growth story

Seven top executives discuss the road ahead for the fund industry, how they plan to restore investor confidence and woo millennials

BS Fund Manager: Unlike banks, mutual funds don't have NPAs, opine CIOs

Six of India's leading fund managers say it is unfair to compare the fund industry's issues with the banking sector's woes

Overweight positions in banks, industrials helped HDFC: CIO Prashant Jain

Given this background, an outperformance of nearly 9 percentage points over the Nifty 100 benchmark is no small feat

Taking a step back helped beat competition: Fund Manager Shreyash Devalkar

Shreyash Devalkar of Axis Mutual Fund was able to deliver enviable returns by moving away from the herd even as mid- and small-caps struggled

Franklin Templeton MF followed a focused bottom-up approach: Roshi Jain

Avoiding momentum and focusing on quality at a reasonable price has helped Roshi Jain of Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund emerge a winner

Avoiding mistakes, betting on quality helped us do better: Anurag Mittal

While Mittal believes that time spent in market is a positive and can be helpful, there is no magic number of between 30 and 35 years at which to set a minimum threshold for experience, as per him

Here's what makes ICICI Prudential AMC's Manish Banthia an outlier

With a research-driven process and an eye for opportunities, Banthia, senior fund manager-fixed income, ICICI Prudential AMC, beat the market and peers over the last year

Fund directory: Gauging the performance of MFs' open-ended growth schemes

Sourced from Morningstar India, this listing gives information on schemes' performance based on their investment category

Two PGIM India schemes write back dues from Anil Ambani firms, NAVs soar

Ultra Short-term Fund, Short Maturity Fund see single-day jump of 40-50 per cent in NAVs