Debt Funds Saw Big Inflows in August, But Should You Invest in Them Heavily?
2 years, 3 months ago

Debt Funds Saw Big Inflows in August, But Should You Invest in Them Heavily?

News 18  

Debt mutual funds in India saw healthy fund inflows last month, according to the data released by the Association of Mutual Funds of India. This also marks a serious turnaround from the Rs 70,213 crore worth of outflows that debt mutual funds witnessed in the second quarter of 2022. “In fact, we have ‘Moderate return expectations in debt funds’ Viral Bhatt, who runs Money Mantra, a personal finance advisory in Mumbai, says not to invest heavily in debt funds. Nema Chahaya Buch, who heads Wishing Tree Financial Advisory says, “If the priority is to protect principal investment over new returns, debt funds should be preferred.

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Debt Mutual Funds See Investment Worth Rs 1.57 Lakh Crore In Oct, See What Happened
1 month ago

Debt Mutual Funds See Investment Worth Rs 1.57 Lakh Crore In Oct, See What Happened

ABP News  

Debt-oriented mutual funds saw a robust recovery in October as inflows touched Rs 1.57 lakh crore. The positive inflow enhanced the asset base of debt mutual funds by 11 per cent to touch Rs 16.64 lakh crore in October end, in comparison to Rs 14.97 lakh crore clocked during the same period a year earlier. The data from the Association …

Equity fund inflows surge 21% to ₹41,887 crore in October; SIPs reach record high
1 month, 1 week ago

Equity fund inflows surge 21% to ₹41,887 crore in October; SIPs reach record high

Live Mint  

On November 11, equity mutual fund inflows saw a notable jump of 21.69 percent month-on-month, reaching ₹41,887 crore in October, according to the latest data from the Association of Mutual Funds in India. In October, hybrid mutual funds saw a significant surge in inflows, attracting ₹16,863.3 crore, compared to ₹4,901 crore in September. Corporate bond mutual funds saw steady inflow …

Investing in Mutual Funds: Lessons from the Epic Ramayana
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Investing in Mutual Funds: Lessons from the Epic Ramayana

Live Mint  

The article explores the money lessons that we can learn from the epic tale of Ramayana. It emphasizes the concept of pooling money with other investors to achieve greater reach and better returns. The film also highlights the importance of diverse skill sets and collaboration in achieving success. Additionally, it suggests that investing in blue chip firms carries lesser risks …

June equity MF inflows rise fourfold to ₹40,608 cr.: AMFI
5 months, 2 weeks ago

June equity MF inflows rise fourfold to ₹40,608 cr.: AMFI

The Hindu  

Equity mutual funds rose 370% to ₹40,608.19 crore in June 2024, from ₹8,637.49 crore in June 2023, data released by Association of Mutual Funds in India show. Indian mutual fund sector’s net asset under management crossed ₹60 lakh crore in June 2024, a rise of ₹10 lakh crore since December 2023. Debt mutual funds witnessed a surge in outflows at …

Equity fund inflows rise by 17% to ₹40,608 crore in June, a fresh high: AMFI data
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Equity fund inflows rise by 17% to ₹40,608 crore in June, a fresh high: AMFI data

Hindustan Times  

Inflows into India's equity mutual funds rose 17% to a record high of 406.08 billion rupees in June as per data from the Association of Mutual Funds in India. Since 2021, equity mutual funds have seen net inflows aggregating to 5.99 trillion rupees from domestic investors which is well above net foreign inflows of 333.61 billion rupees over the same …

Building Wealth With SIP Mutual Funds: How To Make The Correct Choice? Here Are Some Top Performing SIP MFs In 2024
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Building Wealth With SIP Mutual Funds: How To Make The Correct Choice? Here Are Some Top Performing SIP MFs In 2024

ABP News  

Systematic Investment Plans have become increasingly popular amongst investors as a simple and efficient way to invest in the mutual fund market in India. When opting for a SIP mutual fund, it is important to conduct a thorough analysis of all the funds available in the market and access your financial goals. Investment goal - Based on your investment objectives, …

Stay invested, avoid timing the market: Deepak Shenoy
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Stay invested, avoid timing the market: Deepak Shenoy

Live Mint  

Our experience suggests that trying to time the market is fraught with uncertainty, with a high probability of being wrong 99% of the time," says Deepak Shenoy, founder and CEO of Capitalmind. “I view buying bonds as a sound tactical move, particularly in the current market environment where interest rates are expected to decline," adds Shenoy in an interaction with …

Debt mutual funds without indexation are still a great investment bet for medium to long duration
1 year, 8 months ago

Debt mutual funds without indexation are still a great investment bet for medium to long duration

Live Mint  

The debt mutual funds have been gaining scale in India driven by the massive increase in the volume of debt securities. Although there has been a structural alteration in investment themes, the debt MFs primarily have been investing in central government securities, corporate bonds, commercial papers, certificates of deposit, T-bills and state development loans. Having said that, the debt mutual …

Debt Mutual Funds Taxation Rules Amended: How Will It Affect Your Investments?
1 year, 8 months ago

Debt Mutual Funds Taxation Rules Amended: How Will It Affect Your Investments?

Live Mint  

When passing the Budget Bill, 2023 in Lok Sabha earlier this week, the central government made amendments to the taxation of debt mutual funds. According to the amendments made in Budget 2023, investments made on or after April 1, 2023, will not be eligible for the indexation benefit for calculating long-term capital gains on debt mutual funds. Due to the …

India Likely to Propose Removing Long-Term Capital Gains for Debt Mutual Funds: Report
1 year, 8 months ago

India Likely to Propose Removing Long-Term Capital Gains for Debt Mutual Funds: Report

News 18  

India may propose that investments in debt mutual funds be taxed as short-term capital gains, according to a source with knowledge of the matter, a move that could strip investors of the long-term tax benefits that made such investments popular. Currently, investors in debt funds pay income tax on capital gains according to the income tax slab for a holding …

India setting up $4-billion fund to backstop corporate debt market
1 year, 10 months ago

India setting up $4-billion fund to backstop corporate debt market

The Hindu  

India is setting up a fund worth ₹330 billion to provide liquidity to its corporate debt market during bouts of stress, to help stem panic selling and ease redemption pressures, an SBI Mutual Fund executive told Reuters. SBI Mutual Fund, a unit of India’s largest state-owned lender, State Bank of India, has been tasked with administrating the backstop fund, which …

Bank FD Vs Debt MF: Here's Where You Should Invest To Save More Tax
2 years, 1 month ago

Bank FD Vs Debt MF: Here's Where You Should Invest To Save More Tax

News 18  

Though investment instruments carry with them financial risks, there are options available in the market for risk-averse investors. Debt mutual funds include credit risk, interest rate risk, inflation risk, and reinvestment risk; while FD risks include liquidity risk, default risk, and inflation risk. According to a livemint report, debt funds have generally shown to have delivered better-annualised returns than FDs, …

Debt MFs log ₹65,372-crore outflow in September on increasing rate cycle, advance tax payment needs
2 years, 1 month ago

Debt MFs log ₹65,372-crore outflow in September on increasing rate cycle, advance tax payment needs

The Hindu  

Debt funds focused on investing in fixed-income securities witnessed an outflow of ₹65,372 crore in September amid increasing interest rate cycle and redemptions by corporates to pay advance tax. Prior to that, investors pulled out over ₹70,000 crore from debt mutual funds in April-June due to high inflation and increasing rate cycle. Overnight funds category witnessed inflows to the tune …

Debt funds roiled, but fund houses are okay
2 years, 3 months ago

Debt funds roiled, but fund houses are okay

Live Mint  

Interest rate hikes by the Reserve Bank of India are roiling debt funds. Thus, when interest rates in the economy rise, prices of existing debt paper fall and, by extension, the net asset values of debt funds invested in them also fall. In the previous three periods, assets managed by debt funds rose, along with an increase in overall mutual …

Which mutual funds should I invest in for the long term?
2 years, 3 months ago

Which mutual funds should I invest in for the long term?

Live Mint  

I am 33 years old, married and have a net salary of ₹90,000 per month. I invest in mutual funds through a systematic investment plan and my total contribution to this is ₹20,000 per month. My current SIPs include ₹5,000 each in Axis Bluechip, PGIM India Midcap Opportunities, Canara Robeco Emerging Equity, ₹3,000 in Mirae Asset Emerging Bluechip and ₹2,000 …

Should you invest in debt funds through SIP?
2 years, 5 months ago

Should you invest in debt funds through SIP?

Live Mint  

Most of us know Systematic Investment Plan and its many benefits. If you don’t have a lumpsum amount to invest in a debt fund It is essential to remember that SIP is just a tool to invest in mutual funds every month. Investing in mutual funds through SIP allows investors to get more fund units when the market is down. …

5 things you should know before investing in debt funds
2 years, 6 months ago

5 things you should know before investing in debt funds

Live Mint  

In May 2022, mutual funds that invest in debt securities had a net outflow of Rs 32,722 crore. The debt fund returns are not safe It is seen that most individuals start investing in debt funds believing that debt funds are entirely risk-free. As debt funds invest in different debt securities such as bonds, changes in the underlying bond price …

Debt Mutual Funds Witness Rs 1.2-Lakh-Crore Outflow in January-March; Check Details
2 years, 7 months ago

Debt Mutual Funds Witness Rs 1.2-Lakh-Crore Outflow in January-March; Check Details

News 18  

Mutual funds focused on investing in fixed-income securities saw an outflow of Rs 1.2 crore in the March 2022 quarter on massive withdrawal from segments, such as liquid, short duration, and corporate bond funds, a report by Morningstar India said on Monday. According to the report, debt funds saw net outflows to the tune of Rs 1.15 lakh crore in …

Can NRIs park their accumulated wealth in debt index funds?
2 years, 11 months ago

Can NRIs park their accumulated wealth in debt index funds?

Live Mint  

To answer your first question, the passive debt funds available in India today are not quite amenable for generating regular income. A better option would be to use active debt funds, where you can make choices that are specific to your time frame. With regards to the second question, debt funds are reasonably detached from the equity markets and their …

How regulations have failed our fixed-income securities market
3 years, 2 months ago

How regulations have failed our fixed-income securities market

Live Mint  

The March 2020 redemption debacle will always be remembered as a moment of reckoning for India’s fixed- income mutual fund industry. Amid the denigration inflicted upon the industry, perhaps the greatest error of judgement pertained to the convenient omission of the fact that India lacks a credible secondary market for corporate debt securities. This means that the risk of holding …

It’s advisable to include a few debt funds even if you are investing for long term
4 years, 1 month ago

It’s advisable to include a few debt funds even if you are investing for long term

Live Mint  

I have systematic investment plans in the following funds: ₹5,000 each in SBI Small Cap, Axis Blue Chip and Mirae Asset Large Cap; and ₹4,000 each in Aditya Birla GenNext, ICICI Prudential Long Term Bond, Axis Banking & PSU Debt and Motilal Oswal Focused 25. I recently readjusted my portfolio and stopped investment in Axis Long Term Equity and Franklin …

Raging retail inflation puts savings plans in disarray
4 years, 1 month ago

Raging retail inflation puts savings plans in disarray

Live Mint  

The unprecedented nature of the covid-19 crisis and economic uncertainty have prompted Indian households to save more during the pandemic, but the raging retail inflationary trends could derail their long-term financial plans. Household financial savings rose from 7.9% of the gross domestic product in Q1FY20 to 21.4% in the three months ended June, while deposits with banks picked up 11% …

Debt MFs see ₹1.1 trillion inflow in Oct on robust investment in liquid schemes
4 years, 1 month ago

Debt MFs see ₹1.1 trillion inflow in Oct on robust investment in liquid schemes

Live Mint  

After recording outflow for two consecutive months, debt-oriented mutual fund schemes witnessed a staggering inflow of ₹1.1 lakh crore in October, mainly due to investment in liquid funds, money market and short duration categories. Debt mutual fund schemes had seen net outflow of ₹51,962 crore in September and ₹3,907 crore in August, according to the Association of Mutual Funds in …

It’s time to steer your debt portfolio towards safety
4 years, 3 months ago

It’s time to steer your debt portfolio towards safety

Live Mint  

The month of August saw debt fund investors get a jolt with many categories that had been posting double-digit returns suddenly entering the negative territory. “While the sluggish economy and higher inflation numbers are matters of concern, the signalling actions of RBI on managing yields and liquidity in the banking system, combined with global interest rates being close to zero …

Mutual fund redemption pressure continued in August
4 years, 3 months ago

Mutual fund redemption pressure continued in August

Deccan Chronicle  

Mumbai: Retail investors in mutual funds continued to book profits in equity-linked funds in August just as they did in July. Equity mutual funds saw almost daily redemptions in August barring a few days of net buying as per monthly data now available with the Securities and Exchange Board of India. As per data released by custodians to Sebi, August …

Gilt, dynamic bond debt mutual funds NAVs rise up to 2% in a day
4 years, 3 months ago

Gilt, dynamic bond debt mutual funds NAVs rise up to 2% in a day

Live Mint  

Debt mutual fund investors cheer as their schemes' NAVs rose by upto 2% in a single day on September 1. Debt mutual funds saw a spike in their one day NAV as the yield on the government 10-year bonds fell over 17 basis points on Tuesday. Dynamic bond funds, gilt funds and long term bond funds benefited the most due …

Equity MFs see first outflows since 2016
4 years, 4 months ago

Equity MFs see first outflows since 2016

Live Mint  

Equity mutual funds saw a net monthly outflow for the first time in more than four years as investors booked profits after a sharp rally, with some of them ploughing the money back into safer assets such as gold and debt funds, worried about the recent exuberance in stock prices. July saw a net outflow of ₹2,480.35 crore from equity …

Equity mutual funds see negative inflows for first time in over four years
4 years, 4 months ago

Equity mutual funds see negative inflows for first time in over four years

Live Mint  

Equity mutual funds witnessed net outflows of ₹2,480 crore in July for the first time in over four years, shows the data released by Amfi. Other equity-oriented categories including large cap, large & mid cap, small cap, mid cap, value funds, dividend yield funds and sectoral funds also saw negative net inflows in July. Debt mutual funds saw a huge …

Debt Mutual Funds See Rs 1.1 Lakh Crore Inflow in June Quarter on Investment in Liquid Schemes
4 years, 4 months ago

Debt Mutual Funds See Rs 1.1 Lakh Crore Inflow in June Quarter on Investment in Liquid Schemes

News 18  

Driven by investments in liquid schemes as also banking and PSU funds, debt mutual funds saw an inflow of Rs 1.1 lakh crore in three months ended June 2020 after witnessing massive redemptions in the preceding quarter. As per the data, inflows into debt mutual funds were at Rs 1.1 lakh crore in the three months ended June, compared to …

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