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ou must have heard the story of the ant and the will have accumulated `11.62 lakh. This amount is
grasshopper. Knowing that the winters are almost magical to someone who only sees the end result.
approaching, the ant, along with the others in No matter how formidable your goal may appear, you
her colony, works hard to gather food grains and store can start saving towards it. Just break it into small parts
them. The grasshopper sees the ant working and mocks and this is what SIPs do for you. They help you
her. He believes that one should enjoy one’s present and overcome the inertia that may develop by just looking at
not worry about the future. He also finds it futile to look the sheer size of the corpus required. However, do revise
for single food grains and accumulate them. After all, your SIP amounts regularly as your income increases.
how much can one gather doing that? The ant tries to This will help you accumulate the desired corpus faster.
persuade the grasshopper that he should also make Also, if your SIPs weren’t enough for the goal amount,
provisions for the future, lest he would not find any you can make up for the shortfall. In the above
food in the winters. But the grasshopper turns a deaf ear illustration, if you also increase your SIPs by 10 per cent
to her advice. When the winters arrive, the ant has annually, you can accumulate `15.36 lakh.
accumulated more than enough food. A severe winter We all have multiple goals to accomplish: retirement,
and the snowfall covers all vegetation, leaving absolutely children’s education and weddings, buying a house or a
no food for the grasshopper. Out of hunger, he falls car, vacation and so on. It’s advisable that you run
unconscious. When the ant gets to know about that, it separate SIPs for each goal. This will help you gauge
offers food to the grasshopper, thus saving his life. your investment in a better way. Choose the right
It would not be wrong to call the ant an SIP investor. category of funds for each goal, depending on its
She kept accumulating grains – one at a time – and timeline. For goals that are more than five years away, go
eventually reached a stage where she had enough for the for equity funds. For goals that are three to five years
full season. She realised her goal through small away, equity-savings and conservative hybrid funds can
investments. For the grasshopper, the contributions were do the job. For goals that are one year to three years
too minuscule to make any appreciable difference. away, accumulate your corpus in short-term debt funds.
While SIPs may look small at the time you make For goals that are due in the next one year, ultra-short-
them, over time they accumulate to become a large duration funds or liquid funds are just fine.
amount. When you make those SIPs in an equity fund, While investing in equity, go through the SIP route.
you also stand to gain from capital appreciation over the This will ensure that you don’t invest all your money at
long run. For instance, if you invest `5,000 monthly in a market peak. And last but not least, be disciplined
an equity fund that returns 12 per cent, in 10 years you with your SIPs and have faith in them.
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quity-linked saving schemes (ELSS) have swiftly accompanying graph captures the proportion of the annual
become a popular tax-saving destination. They have net flows into ELSS across the four quarters for the last five
multiple factors working in their favour: good financial years. The data shows the flows getting gradually
returns, transparent reporting, greater accountability, tax evened out, with a smaller bump-up in the last quarter.
exemption up to `1.5 lakh under Section 80C and shorter While the last quarter of FY15 saw ELSS bag 80 per
lock-in period of three years. Since ELSS funds are gen- cent of the total net flows for the full year, the fourth
erally multi-cap, they allow investors to own a quarter of FY19 saw them collect only 39 per
multi-cap portfolio of stocks across sectors. cent of the full-year flows. The quarterly
However, thanks to the bad habit of net flows of FY19 have been almost
delaying making tax-saving investments evenly spread. This highlights a
till the last moment, tax-saving funds much-awaited shift in the habits of
have historically witnessed lump-sum ELSS investors from lump sums to
investments in the last quarter of the SIP investing. This is welcome.
financial year. While making one-time Rather than scrambling to plan their
investments in traditional instruments taxes at the last minute, investors now
like Public Provident Fund doesn’t hurt seem to be understanding the impor-
returns, with ELSS, doing so can cause tance of planning in advance. The SIP
investors to catch a market high and thus route also helps disciplined investments
increase risk, not to mention the sub-optimal with the benefit of rupee cost averaging.
fund choice one might make in a hurry. So, if you haven’t already started your tax-saving
However, this trend could be changing now. Our analy- SIP, there’s still time as we are just in the second quar-
sis of AMFI data shows that investors are increasingly ter of the current financial year. Go ahead and join the
adopting the SIP route for their ELSS investments. The new trend!
Evening out
The graph below shows net quarterly ELSS flows as per cent of total net flows in a financial year. The last quarter of the financial year
sees a bump as investors rush to make their tax-saving investments. This trend has, however, been evening out.
80 %
60
40
20
-20
-40
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
FY15 FY16 FY17 FY18 FY19
Analysis based on AMFI data
Protecting wealth
Amidst a rapid market fall, the fund has contained its downside well
1000
Fund portfolio
Large caps Mid caps Small caps Cash
920
Fund 52.25% 27.08
19.32 1.35
Index 78.62% 15.98
5.40 –
840 Rebased to 1,000
July 2018 July 2019 Average stocks in the portfolio 54
Successful stocks with gains Losing stocks and the amount of Top holdings with the asset Stocks added during May–Jul ’19,
(` cr) during Jul ’18–’19 losses (` cr) during Jul ’18–’19 allocations (%) as on Jul 31, ’19 with asset allocations (%)
All values are estimates derived from monthly portfolio disclosures. The fund has net assets of `9,706 crore as on July 31, 2019.
Tata Consultancy Services 21,962 879 1.98 500 No. of shares (lakh) No. of funds Price `4000
216
HDFC Bank 74,847 817 6.76 233 249 262
400 211 248 261 3200
HDFC 30,543 783 2.76 194
140
ITC 29,251 578 2.64 300 113 110 114 2400
114
Indusind Bank 7,074 567 0.64
200 1600
Tech Mahindra 6,103 563 0.55
Hindustan Unilever 8,482 522 0.77 100 800
Kotak Mahindra Bank 23,924 459 2.16
HCL Technologies 7,434 422 0.67 0 0
Jun Sep Dec Mar Jun Sep Dec Mar Jun Sep Dec Mar Jun
Axis Bank 33,231 371 3.00 2016 2017 2018 2019
Emami 2,794 1,142 0.25 250 NTPC Power Grid Tata Power Torrent Power
Shriram Transport Finance Co. 1,884 1,113 0.17
200
Cadila Healthcare 1,899 291 0.17
Godrej Properties 551 173 0.05
150
No. of funds
Construction
Cons Durable 2.81 2.70 2.89 3.12 3.32
Metals
Chemicals Construction 8.71 8.35 8.66 9.02 10.13
Communication
Diversified 1.52 1.42 1.54 1.64 1.71
Healthcare
22.90
7.59 Services 5.60 5.05 5.18 5.49 5.43
13.49
7.31 8.88 13.83
Technology 7.58 8.54 7.36 7.33 7.09
% of funds’ equity assets invested in FMCG stocks
Textiles 2.30 2.14 1.92 2.02 1.89
Hindustan Unilever Emami Dabur India
Colgate-Palmolive P&G Others The financial sector continues to be the most preferred sector for mutual funds over the
last 12 months, while the construction sector is the second most preferred.
30000 55000
15000 50000
0 45000
-15000 40000
-30000 35000
Jul 2016 Jul 2019
‘I don’t take
balance-sheet
risks’
Amit Ganatra says that while hunting for contrarian
plays, he stays away from companies with weak
balance sheets. But if the balance sheet is strong,
he doesn’t mind taking P&L risk.
Invesco India Contra Fund India’s largest spirits compa-
has a good track record. But ny, India’s leading pri-
the fund’s portfolio doesn’t vate-sector bank and India’s
look very different from the largest hospital chain.
portfolios of other growth A second bucket, 31 per
funds. What is the reason cent of the portfolio today,
for this? relates to companies trading
At any given point in time, below their fair value. Here,
we strive to maintain at least the main buying criterion is
60 per cent of this fund’s the stock’s cheapness rela-
portfolio in contrarian oppor- tive to the market, based on
tunities. Today, in fact, 69–70 price-to-book, price-to-earn-
per cent of our portfolio is in ings or other parameters. A
contrarian opportunities. We couple of years ago, IT com-
look for three types of con- panies were cheap relative
trarian opportunities. The to markets, today many auto
first is companies which are companies fit the bill. A
in a turnaround phase. These third bucket we like to own
are companies that were very is derated growth compa-
strong in the past but for nies. Sometimes, companies
some reason have fallen on that deliver high growth get
bad times. There is often a derated due to short-term or
change in management technical reasons. Maruti
which tries to chart a path to getting de-rated because
profitability. If you can iden- there was a strike a few
tify such opportunities, there years ago or HDFC Bank get-
is often a benefit that can ting derated because of FPIs
come out of both earnings hitting their investment ceil-
growth and P/E re-rating. In ing are examples. If we feel
the current portfolio, compa- such a derating is due to
nies in a turnaround phase short-term reasons, we take
have a 20 per cent allocation advantage. In the current
and include stocks such as portfolio, companies like
Retirement
Planning
Essentials Plan for the future
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he subject of retirement and are simply praying that an early death
planning draws extreme will solve their problem!
reactions from folks in Given India’s rising longevity, high
India. At one end of the inflation rate and lack of any form of social
spectrum, there are 22-year- security for retirees, building an adequate
olds just into their first job retirement corpus is absolutely necessary
asking if they can retire at 45, now that during your working years. Yet most folks
they’ve started a SIP of `5,000. They are get stuck at the very first step in this
clearly underestimating the amount of exercise – estimating how much they will
savings, discipline and planning they will need for a comfortable retirement.
need to build a retirement corpus that can Online retirement calculators can throw
fund a retired life that is likely to last as up widely divergent sums depending on
long as their working life. inbuilt assumptions of long-term inflation
At the other extreme, there are folks in rate, longevity, one’s pre- and post-
their 40s or 50s who have received such a retirement lifestyle and the likely returns
scare from the humongous targets thrown one can earn post retirement.
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So, here’s our attempt to arrive at an month). To estimate what kind of corpus
answer to the all-important question on she would need to retire, we need to first
retirement – how much money do you get at her likely spending when she turns
need to retire? 60 after accounting for inflation.
Value Research is currently using a 6
Taking a shortcut per cent inflation rate assumption on such
Conventional financial calculators use calculations for two reasons. One, 6 per
multiple data points and assumptions to cent is the upper limit of the consumer-
arrive at your target retirement corpus. price inflation set by RBI’s inflation-
They usually start with your current age targeting framework, which seeks to
and post-tax income and estimate likely contain inflation within the bounds of 4 to
growth in that income. They then arrive at 6 per cent. If the rate shoots up over this,
your likely expenses pre and post the RBI is likely to peg up its interest rates
retirement by applying a certain percentage so that inflation falls within this band.
to your income, based on your lifestyle Two, 6 per cent is also the mid-way point
choices. They input an assumed inflation between the current ultra-low inflation
rate and return on your investments, both rate of 4 per cent prevailing in India and
during your working and post-retirement the 8 per cent rate it has averaged over the
years, to arrive at a target corpus that will past decade.
see you through retirement. Arriving at your Applying a 6 per cent inflation to
But there’s a simpler method for arriving retirement Alyssa’s current expenses of `6 lakh for
at your retirement corpus that cuts out a corpus involves the next 35 years, we find that she will
few of the above steps. It involves just four just four need `46.11 lakh a year by the time she
variables – your current expenses, the variables – your turns 60 to maintain her current lifestyle.
likely inflation rate, your likely longevity current That may look like a mind-boggling
and the likely post-tax return on your number, but you must remember that at 6
expenses, the
investments post retirement. per cent a year, inflation roughly doubles
likely inflation
your expenses every 12 years.
A typical case rate, your likely Before we go about calculating her
Let’s take the case of Alyssa, a 25-year old longevity and the actual retirement target, let us say,
professional. Instead of worrying about likely post-tax hypothetically, that Alyssa has saved `2
her income and savings, let’s start off return on your crore towards retirement. Many folks
straightaway with her current expenditure, investments post would think that’s a very good number,
which is about `6 lakh a year (`50,000 a retirement. but it isn’t.
In her very first year after retiring, with Working out a fund 30 years of retired life from the
no income, Alyssa would have to rough retirement passive income generated by her
withdraw `48.8 lakh from her nest egg to retirement corpus.
target and
meet her expenses (`46.1 lakh plus 6 per Now, using the what-if Excel function, it
starting on your
cent inflation). At the end of year one, she is possible to arrive at a starting retirement
would thus have `1.51 crore left.
investments as corpus for Alyssa so that, even after
Assuming she invests this at a 7 per cent early as you can withdrawing increasing sums from it each
return, it would inch up to `1.62 crore by is far more year based on inflation, she doesn’t run out
year-end. But in year two, she would find critical to of money until she turns 90. Staying with
that her withdrawals are now `51.8 lakh retiring the 6 per cent inflation rate and assuming a
(`48.8 lakh plus inflation) leaving her comfortably than 7 per cent post-tax return for Alyssa after
with just `1.09 crore at the end of the trying to get your retirement, she would need about `12.5
year. Investing this at 7 per cent will again target correct to crore for a comfortable retirement if she
take her to a kitty of `1.17 crore by end of the last decimal lives until 90. That amounts to 27 times
year 3, but then her expenses by now have her annual expenses at 60.
ballooned to `54.9 lakh!
The above numbers clearly tell us that, Assumptions matter
with a `2 crore corpus, Alyssa will end up The target corpus for Alyssa will clearly
withdrawing more money than she earns vary depending on what inflation, longevity
by way of returns right from the first year and investment return assumptions we use.
of retirement. Continuing in this vein, she In Alyssa’s case, if we bump up that
will run out of money barely four years inflation rate to 7 per cent while her returns
after retirement. remain at 7 per cent, her target corpus
Therefore, the key to arriving at an shoots up to `19.9 crore. That would be 31
adequate retirement corpus for Alyssa is times her annual expenses at 60. If Alyssa
to make sure that her residual retirement sticks to the most conservative investment
corpus at the end of each year generates and earns only a 5.5 per cent return after
more than enough return to compensate retiring, at a 6 per cent inflation, she would
for her inflating living expenses. This need `15.2 crore, about 32 times her
calculation should also factor in Alyssa’s expenses. If she lives to 99 instead of 90,
longevity, as the longer she lives the more she would need `15.7 crore to retire, or 33
the withdrawals she would have to make times her annual expenses.
from her retirement kitty. Assuming that In short, the assumptions used make
Alyssa lives until 90, she would need to the estimation of one’s retirement corpus
an inexact science. Having set your target,
The inflation effect you may have to make tweaks along the
What you’ll need to maintain your current lifestyle @ 6% inflation if you are 25 and way if your real-life experience varies
your current annual expenditure is `6 lakh from your assumptions.
But then, working out a rough retirement
265
target and starting on your investments as
early as you can is far more critical to
Annual expenditure (` lakh) 198 retiring comfortably than trying to get your
148 target correct to the last decimal. So if you
111 haven’t yet made a start on your retirement
83
46
62 planning, estimate your current expenses.
26 35
6 8 11 14 19 Apply a 6 per cent inflation rate to it for the
years you are left until retirement. Multiply
25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90
Age (years) the result by 25-27 times and that’s a target
corpus you can work with.
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till reeling at the number of zeros Taking off from Alyssa’s example in the
you’ve found in your retirement previous story, let’s see how much she will
goal? Don’t get your heart rate up. need to invest at different points in her life if
While the corpus you’re targeting she wants to get to the retirement kitty of
may seem daunting today, it is `12.5 crore. If she starts off immediately at 25,
well within reach with some she has 35 years to go to retirement and a
disciplined investing. Here’s a five-step monthly SIP of about `22,690 in an equity
recipe to building the corpus you need. fund earning 12 per cent will get her to her
goal. But if she waits until 35, the SIP amount
Start young she needs shoots up to `73,430 at the same 12
It may be a little odd to start thinking about per cent return to get her to it. This
hanging up your boots when you are just demonstrates that starting early is the single
putting them on for your first job. But an most important thing you can do to scale the
early start makes the difference between Mount Everest that is your retirement goal.
sprinting towards your target like Hima Das
and huffing and puffing towards it like an Step up
octogenarian. What if the `22,690 monthly savings we
`14.8 cr
`6.5. cr
How to derive
income in retirement
The post-retirement plan can be divided into three components: emergency fund, income-
generation portfolio, meant for the first five years, and growth portfolio
L
et’s assume you’ve made all the years ahead of retirement. After taking all this
right moves and are now sitting trouble to accumulate a sizeable retirement
on a princely sum to see you corpus, you don’t want a sudden bear market
through your silver years. Your to batter your portfolio right when you turn
priority now is setting up a 60. Imagine a 2008-like situation, where the
distribution plan that gives you market was down over 50 per cent in a single
a regular income after retirement. year! The best way to avoid such last-minute
Now, an income-generating portfolio, as shockers is to initiate a phased shift in your
you well know, will need to have a very asset allocation from an equity-heavy portfolio
different asset allocation from a growth- to a more balanced one, starting five years
oriented portfolio. Therefore, as you ahead of your retirement date.
transition from the accumulation phase of While rejigging your portfolio, where do
retirement planning to the distribution you invest the money? Let’s illustrate with
phase, you need to make a shift in your the case of Sathya, who has a `3 crore
asset allocation away from equities towards corpus. Her corpus is 25 times her annual
debt options. expenses of `12 lakh. She needs to invest it
It is best to start on this project four-five in three buckets.
Investing in
AARATI KRISHNAN
turbulent times
Jai, Veeru and Gabbar discuss the ongoing fall in the market
and what investors should do about it
V
eeru had just had his bath and was Gabbar: That is certainty true. Basanti has
settling down to a hot poori-bhaji more than 20 people employed in her
breakfast when there was hectic house itself. But I don’t mind her shifting
knocking at the door. to Switzerland so I can visit her.
Veeru: Gabbar, itni subah! Come join me Veeru: Jai! Come in, we were busy with
and have some poori! Now, don’t start budget discussions.
asking me about the budget and why Jai: I was looking for you at the tea shop.
your funds are doing badly. It will ruin Hope you both are not bashing up poor
my appetite. Nirmalaji over pooris. Yes, super-rich tax,
Gabbar: Haha! I know what you will say. etc., is not a great idea, but now it is get-
Like a broken record, you will ask me to ting to be too much. You cannot blame the
continue with my SIPs. I am quite happy FM, that too a 60-day old one, for all the
about the budget because super-rich peo- portfolio mistakes you have committed.
ple like Basanti now have to pay more tax. Gabbar: I haven’t made any portfolio mis-
I heard that after including surcharge and takes, Jai. I got out of small-cap funds and
all, people earning over `5 crore will have all long ago. I have been quietly doing my
to pay a tax of 42.7 per cent. I like it! India SIPs in multi-cap funds. But it is very
has so much population, so we can’t make hard to keep investing every month, when
the poor rich anytime soon. So why not you read such terrible things on the econ-
make the rich poor! omy from market experts on Twitter.
Veeru: Very horrible idea, Gabbar. It is bil- People who were so bullish about Modi
lionaires like Basanti who contribute to winning only one month ago are now say-
much of India’s taxes. The top 5 per cent of ing the Indian economy will become like
income-tax payers make up 80 per cent of Pakistan’s and no foreign investors will
our income-tax collections. If they shift out come here because of the surcharge.
of India, the economy would suffer. The Jai: Don’t believe all that, Gabbar. Those
super-rich in any country make a large con- experts know very well that there has
tribution to the economy through employ- been no sudden deterioration in the econ-
ment creation, spending and risk-taking. omy after the budget. Car sales and IIP
In the last four years, stock prices have kept rising even as
corporate profits were growing very slowly. When the P/E for
the Sensex is at 28 times, it needs a trigger to correct.
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have been falling since last July. India’s many laws and taxes in every sector that
GDP growth had slowed to 5.8 per cent in businessmen feel like jumping into a river.
the January–March 2019 quarter itself Veeru: Sadly, you are right, Gabbar.
before the budget. The issue really is that, Jai: But as an investor, Gabbar, you should
for the last four years, stock prices have not be put off at times like this. The lower
kept rising even as corporate profits were the valuations at which you buy equities,
growing very slowly. When the P/E for the the better will be your long-term returns.
Sensex is at 28 times, it needs a trigger to Without this correction, the markets
correct. The budget provided it. would have simply become more and
Veeru: Yes, mid- and small-cap stocks and more expensive and finally we would
consumer stocks were trading at very high have ended up with a big crash like 2008.
P/Es. With the slowdown hitting them Veeru: Yeah, I was looking at five-year
hard, the P/E needs to correct. CAGRs of the Nifty 50 for the last 20
Jai: And it is not as if FPIs invest in India years, Jai. Do you know, for people who
based only on capital-gains tax rates. invested for five years, the market gave a
Making a capital gain in the first place is more than 20 per cent return only 16 per
far more important. If you remember, the cent of time and more than 30 per cent
Indian stock market reacted badly in the only 7 per cent of the time?
past too when we tightened rules for FPIs, Gabbar: Nice statistics, but who knows
like cracking down on participatory notes, when one should invest to get that 20 and
introducing GAAR or changing the 30 per cent. I am struggling to get to 10
Mauritius treaty. Those events saw big FPI per cent now.
outflows. But when India saw a stable gov- Veeru: I was coming to that. Do you know
ernment after elections and the economy who made 30 per cent CAGR in five years
looked up, the flows came back. FPIs take a Gabbar? People who invested in the Nifty
relative call between different countries just after the 9/11 attacks on the World
and India is not looking too hot right now! Trade Centre, when everyone was predict-
Veeru: Yes, what we really need to do to get ing World War III. October 2008, when the
FPIs to invest in India is to get consumers global financial crisis had just hit and
back into a spending mood and companies everyone was saying we would see a Great
back into investing in new projects. Depression, was also a good time to invest.
Gabbar: And maybe stop introducing so If you invested in the Nifty then, you
made a 17 per cent CAGR in the next five the last two-three years, it is safer to stick
years. Remember the taper tantrum in to long-term performers that you’ve always
August 2013 when everyone said India wanted to buy. Better put that Rs 10 lakh
would run out of money like in 1991? If into a liquid fund and do a six-month STP
you invested then in the Nifty, you made into one of your multi-cap funds.
16 per cent in the next five years. Gabbar: But I don’t want to put more and
Gabbar: I am convinced about all that, more money into the same funds, Jai.
Veeru. I have had enough of this wisdom. They have been trailing their benchmarks.
But I’m not sure what to buy. In fact, I Jai: If you’re very worried Gabbar, do
wanted to buy some nice beaten-down STPs into a Nifty 50 and Nifty Next 50
stocks like DHFL and Yes Bank. Do you Index fund. Then you’ll be benefitting
know that DHFL’s stock price was `660 from market lows and also don’t have to
just one year ago? Now it's `46. It will eas- worry about choosing outperforming
ily double from here. If I put `10 lakh in active funds.
the stock, I will have `20 lakh in just one Gabbar: But are multi-cap funds good?
year. No need to struggle with mutual Many people are now saying that there is
funds, which can only give 10 or 15 per further pain ahead for mid- and small-cap
cent. stocks and that it is best to stick with the
Jai: This is one of your bright ideas, bluest of blue chips.
Gabbar. I am sure people who were buying Jai: They’re wrong. Don’t keep changing
DHFL at `350 in September 2018 and your allocation, Gabbar. I remember that
`100 in February 2019 also thought the there was a very good reason for you to
same thing. When there’s a fundamental start SIPs in multi-cap funds. You did it
problem with a business and the auditors because you felt that over the next 10 or
are not sure if the business can continue, 20 years, the mid- and small-cap stocks in
a stock can halve from any price. Even if your funds would give you much better
you buy it at `2, it can become `1. returns because they have better growth
Veeru: Tell me, Gabbar, if there’s an end-of- prospects than large caps. That logic has
season sale in the mall, do you rush there not changed.
to buy Puma at 25 per cent off or `99 Veeru: Cough, cough! I have some data on
hawai chappals at `40? that too. If you invested in the Nifty
Gabbar: Haha! You know me, Veeru. I am Midcap 150 index in October 2008, you
quality-conscious. would have made a 17 per cent CAGR till
Veeru: It’s the same thing in investing date, Gabbar. The Nifty 50 earned only 13
Gabbar. When markets are crashing, peo- per cent in the same period. Bear markets
ple get tempted to buy poor-quality stocks are great times to invest in mid-cap stocks.
which they think will make them rich Of course, you don’t know how long the
quickly. But they often end up losing big bear phase will last or how deep the cor-
money. A bear market is a great opportuni- rection will be, so do it through SIPs.
ty to buy quality stocks that you have Jai: Gabbar, it goes back to the Buffett say-
always wanted to own, Gabbar. ing – be greedy when others are fearful.
Jai: The same holds good for funds, too. Now there’s maximum fear in the markets
While it may be tempting to buy thematic about mid and small caps. That makes
funds which have done extremely well in them a good investment.
M
any mutual fund investors category return of 8.6 per cent again
and intermediaries have lags the index performance of 9.1 per
already written an obituary cent. With costs for actively managed
The global wave
for the active large-cap equity catego- funds remaining elevated, and those in favour of
ry because of the inability of the for index funds steadily falling, the index investing
active funds in this category to keep task is likely to get more challenging
up with the bellwether indices. for active managers. These numbers,
ensures that
Taking stock on August 1, if you taken with the very low costs at disproportionate
compare the category returns on which index funds are now available, institutional
large-cap equity funds to the BSE have convinced many folks that pas-
Sensex Total Return Index, this strug- sive funds now present a better alter-
liquidity is
gle is quite evident. native to active ones if one is keen to available to the
The category return on large-cap own a basket of blue-chip stocks. top 100 stocks
But we at Value Research, hold the
equity funds trails the Sensex over
in any market,
one, three and five year(s). On a one- view that it would be hasty to write
year basis, the category is down 2.7 off actively managed large-cap funds to the exclusion
per cent but the Sensex TRI is down based on recent evidence for three of other
0.9 per cent. For three years, the cate- reasons. One, the trend of actively smaller firms
gory returns are 8.7 per cent vis-a-vis managed large-cap funds struggling
the Sensex return of 11.5 per cent, to keep up with the index is just two
falling well short. For five years, the years old.
20,000
15,000
10,000
5,000
Year 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 YTD*
Category (%) 17.75 -23.65 29.16 6.95 36.18 -1.06 3.71 30.92 1.10 1.35
Sensex TRI (%) 19.14 -23.64 27.82 10.70 31.87 -3.68 3.47 29.56 7.18 4.81
Expense ratio (%) 1.66 1.65 1.68 1.91 1.85 1.61 1.44 1.30 1.12 1.12^
* Year-to-date data as on July 31, 2019. ^ Monthly expense as on June 30, 2019.
2.00
20 24 27 28 27 1.48
8.79
HDFC TOP 100 FUND
Large-cap funds
Average return from an SIP in a Large-cap fund is 7.49 per cent over the past five years
SIP returns (%) Trailing returns (%) Top 10 Wt avg mkt Assets Portfolio Performance consistency
Fund Rating 3Y 5Y 3Y 5Y 10Y stocks (%) cap (` cr) (` cr) P/E P/B ‘14 ‘15 ‘16 ‘17 ‘18 ‘19
Active Funds
Aditya Birla Sun Life Focused Equity Fund 3.97 6.87 7.19 9.34 12.57 54.8 152076 4329 22.33 2.4
Aditya Birla Sun Life Frontline Equity Fund 3.14 6.47 6.54 9.27 12.29 48.59 143631 21664 22.78 2.76
Axis Bluechip Fund 12.3 11.49 12.53 11.33 - 61.07 250487 6303 37.03 5.56
Baroda Large Cap Fund Not Rated 2.63 4.75 6.43 5.34 - 55.89 176561 32 28.6 3.32
BNP Paribas Large Cap Fund 6.85 7.58 7.34 9.55 11.98 52.14 178721 772 34.84 4.27
Canara Robeco Bluechip Equity Fund 7.41 8.61 9.44 9.49 - 53.27 169439 211 27.36 3.29
DHFL Pramerica Large Cap Fund 5.03 6.79 6.95 9 9.9 68.76 223084 339 29.81 3.29
DSP Top 100 Equity Fund - Regular Plan 2.15 5.01 5.07 6.99 9.58 60.25 175547 2803 24.95 3.2
Edelweiss Large Cap Fund - Regular Plan 6.29 7.88 8.38 9.61 11.8 43.57 132960 166 22.62 3.43
Essel Large Cap Equity Fund 3.35 6.7 6.65 9.16 - 56.19 146535 112 26.53 3.09
Franklin India Bluechip Fund 0.66 4.27 4.23 7.73 10.49 52.11 124571 7102 24.01 2.19
HDFC Top 100 Fund 6.89 8.79 10.15 9.23 11.83 59.01 174062 17912 16.74 1.98
HSBC Large Cap Equity Fund 5.85 7.99 8.76 8.52 9.14 69.97 253361 687 28.95 3.12
ICICI Prudential BHARAT 22 FOF Not Rated - - - - - - 138276 19 13.85 1.91
ICICI Prudential Bluechip Fund 5.37 8.04 8.76 9.78 13.2 48.04 165235 22117 22.36 2.55
IDBI Focused 30 Equity Fund - Regular Plan Not Rated - - - - - 49.7 123229 245 20 3.27
IDBI India Top 100 Equity Fund 1.62 4.35 4.11 7.94 - 47.69 167549 371 32.02 4.48
IDFC Large Cap Fund - Regular Plan 3.68 6 7.53 6.67 8.84 55.72 152067 435 30.29 3.66
Indiabulls Bluechip Fund 4.94 7.72 8.89 9.46 - 63.88 253424 238 26.88 3.15
Invesco India Largecap Fund 4.4 6.79 7.05 9.41 - 69.88 211154 196 27.02 3.95
JM Core 11 Fund 2.12 7.79 7.35 10.66 6.99 90.89 106278 51 30.14 4.38
JM Large Cap Fund 3.7 4.84 5.38 6.96 7.03 46.38 236718 2174 20.54 2.88
Kotak Bluechip Fund - Regular Plan 3.89 6.36 6.44 9.44 10.52 56.12 162713 1377 25.97 3.33
L&T India Large Cap Fund 5.12 6.67 7.12 8.76 11.64 51.53 188105 496 28.78 3.55
LIC MF Large Cap Fund 5.15 6.33 6.9 8.43 8.99 62.01 234759 291 29.85 4.27
Mahindra Pragati Bluechip Yojana - Not Rated - - - - - 42.78 81984 76 25.83 3.96
Mirae Asset Large Cap Fund 7.53 10.49 11.18 13.03 15.95 45.55 139289 13618 23.76 3.02
Motilal Oswal Focused 25 Fund 3.29 6.57 7.36 10.41 - 63.3 112816 1113 30.97 4.85
Quant Focused Fund Not Rated 1.85 6.86 7.02 13.01 12.81 78.01 58951 4 28.04 2.68
Reliance Junior BeES FoF - Regular Plan Not Rated - - - - - - 43989 52 24.45 2.94
Reliance Large Cap Fund 6.03 8.45 10.17 11.04 12.15 51.34 92204 13076 24.2 2.35
SBI Bluechip Fund 4.08 7.17 6.38 10.75 11.81 45.66 136596 22679 23.81 3.26
Sundaram Select Focus Fund - Regular Plan 8.78 9.22 10.95 9 9.03 63.71 187960 1013 32.07 3.57
Tata Large Cap Fund - Regular Plan 5.74 7.21 7.36 8.81 10.92 65.69 217091 823 29.17 3.28
Taurus Largecap Equity Fund - Regular Plan 0.91 3.22 3.61 5.97 7.14 60.26 230193 29 23.47 3.09
Union Largecap Fund - Regular Plan Not Rated - - - - - 58.72 240250 225 24.1 3.22
UTI Mastershare Fund - Regular Plan 4.68 6.62 7.43 8.81 10.78 50.87 148563 6061 27.34 3.45
Passive Funds
Aditya Birla Sun Life Index Fund 6.68 7.63 8.62 7.61 8.92 53.33 257825 144 23.33 2.85
Aditya Birla Sun Life Nifty ETF Fund Not Rated 7.78 8.83 9.87 8.81 - 60.29 258215 158 23.73 2.9
Aditya Birla Sun Life Nifty Next 50 ETF Not Rated - - - - - 31.69 43648 75 34.4 3.04
Aditya Birla Sun Life Sensex ETF Not Rated 5.35 - 7.65 - - 70.46 312466 12 26.56 2.96
Axis Nifty ETF - Regular Plan Not Rated - - - - - 60.44 258530 8 23.73 2.9
BHARAT 22 ETF Not Rated - - - - - 82.13 138276 8422 13.83 1.76
DSP Equal Nifty 50 Fund - Regular Plan Not Rated - - - - - 20.63 117556 117 23.73 2.9
DSP Nifty 50 Index Fund - Regular Plan Not Rated - - - - - 59.82 258171 19 23.73 2.9
DSP Nifty Next 50 Index Fund - Regular Plan Not Rated - - - - - 31.15 43992 34 34.4 3.04
Edelweiss ETF - Nifty 100 Quality 30 Not Rated 3.51 - 5.55 - - 46.67 118495 12 25.75 6.14
Edelweiss Exchange Traded Fund-Nifty 50 Not Rated 8.34 - 10.63 - - 60.71 258491 2 23.73 2.9
Franklin India Index Fund - NSE Nifty Plan 6.69 7.69 8.69 7.67 9.21 59.85 258538 272 23.73 2.9
HDFC Index Fund - Sensex Plan 9.7 9.69 11 8.69 9.75 70.3 312422 433 26.56 2.96
HDFC Index Fund Nifty 50 Plan 7.68 8.59 9.66 8.45 9.54 60.54 258319 805 23.73 2.9
HDFC Nifty 50 ETF Not Rated 8.07 - 10.09 - - 60.63 258402 320 23.73 2.9
HDFC Sensex ETF Not Rated 10.19 - 11.47 - - 70.47 312553 51 26.56 2.96
ICICI Prudential Nifty 100 ETF Not Rated 6.5 8.26 9.23 8.89 - 52.19 206569 5 25.33 2.93
ICICI Prudential Nifty ETF Not Rated 8.01 8.95 10.04 8.79 - 60.66 258488 1160 23.73 2.9
ICICI Prudential Nifty Index Fund 7.02 7.98 9.02 7.91 9.61 60.69 258230 375 23.73 2.9
ICICI Prudential Nifty Low Vol 30 ETF Not Rated - - - - - 38.31 130584 32 23.72 3.95
ICICI Prudential Nifty Next 50 ETF Not Rated - - - - - 30.55 43756 11 34.4 3.04
ICICI Prudential Nifty Next 50 Index Fund -1.54 5.19 5.61 10.06 - 31.24 43790 523 34.4 3.04
ICICI Prudential NV20 ETF Not Rated 10.71 - 12.91 - - 75.42 252555 6 15.69 2.64
ICICI Prudential Sensex ETF Not Rated 10.03 9.94 11.29 8.88 10.41 69.84 312455 21 26.56 2.96
ICICI Prudential Sensex Index Fund Not Rated - - - - - 69.91 311393 21 26.56 2.96
IDBI Nifty Index Fund 6.39 7.19 8.23 7.01 - 60.42 258228 224 23.73 2.9
IDBI Nifty Junior Index Fund -2.13 4.42 4.75 9.23 - 31.03 43979 50 34.4 3.04
IDFC Nifty ETF Not Rated - - - - - 59.77 258856 1 23.73 2.9
IDFC Nifty Fund - Regular Plan 7.72 8.61 9.66 8.44 - 59.5 258289 171 23.73 2.9
IDFC Sensex ETF Not Rated - - - - - 69.6 312756 1 26.56 2.96
Indiabulls Nifty 50 Exchange Traded Fund Not Rated - - - - - 60.44 257825 13 23.73 2.9
Invesco India Nifty Exchange Traded Fund Not Rated 8 8.93 10.06 8.7 - 60.61 258385 2 23.73 2.9
Kotak Nifty ETF Fund Not Rated 7.98 8.66 10.01 8.26 - 60.63 258372 756 23.73 2.9
Kotak NV 20 ETF Not Rated 11.07 - 13.27 - - 75.98 251762 12 15.69 2.64
Kotak Sensex ETF Fund Not Rated 9.95 9.83 11.19 8.77 10.24 70.53 312539 13 26.56 2.96
LIC MF Exchange Traded Fund - Nifty 100 Not Rated 6.56 - 9.42 - - 52.96 206089 327 25.33 2.93
LIC MF Exchange Traded Fund - Nifty 50 Not Rated 7.98 - 10.02 - - 60.65 258110 526 23.73 2.9
LIC MF Exchange Traded Fund - Sensex Not Rated 10.24 - 11.47 - - 70.48 312512 397 26.56 2.96
LIC MF Index-Nifty Plan 6.51 7.41 8.46 7.3 8.92 60.5 259981 28 23.73 2.9
LIC MF Index-Sensex Plan 8.63 8.42 9.77 7.31 9.03 69.87 313117 20 26.56 2.96
Mirae Asset Nifty 50 ETF - Regular Plan Not Rated - - - - - 60.81 259000 20 23.73 2.9
Motilal Oswal M50 ETF Fund Not Rated 7.42 8.06 9.14 6.82 - 60.48 258275 21 23.73 2.9
Principal Nifty 100 Equal Weight Fund -1.21 2.46 3.57 4.57 7.65 12.56 72187 18 25.33 2.93
Quantum Nifty ETF Not Rated 7.95 8.84 9.94 8.68 10.16 60.36 258612 5 23.33 2.85
Reliance ETF Junior BeES Not Rated -0.89 5.68 6.01 10.45 12.31 31.27 43989 1169 34.4 3.04
Reliance ETF Nifty 100 Not Rated 5.8 7.63 8.63 8.34 - 52.79 205359 7 25.33 2.93
Reliance ETF Nifty BeES Not Rated 8.07 8.9 10.02 8.69 10.26 60.58 258379 1261 23.73 2.9
Reliance ETF NV20 Not Rated 11.01 - 13.19 - - 75.64 251699 30 15.69 2.64
Reliance ETF Sensex Not Rated 10.18 - 11.42 - - 70.4 312497 20 26.56 2.96
Reliance ETF Sensex Next 50 - Regular Plan Not Rated - - - - - - - - - -
Reliance ETF Shariah BeES Not Rated 3.99 6.38 7.81 7.17 8.56 76.99 200408 3 18.62 3.26
Reliance Index Fund - Nifty Plan 6.91 7.76 8.75 7.65 - 60.4 258204 147 23.73 2.9
Reliance Index Fund - Sensex Plan 8.98 8.83 10.27 7.77 - 69.88 312427 24 26.56 2.96
SBI ETF BSE 100 Fund Not Rated 6.51 - 9.4 - - 52.13 196455 4 24.54 2.92
SBI ETF Nifty 50 Not Rated 8.08 - 10.12 - - 60.63 258372 55778 23.73 2.9
SBI ETF Nifty Next 50 Fund Not Rated -0.77 - 6.31 - - 31.28 43990 199 34.4 3.04
SBI ETF Quality - Regular Plan Not Rated - - - - - 47.8 89003 17 24.38 6.72
SBI ETF Sensex Not Rated 10.15 10.1 11.41 9.18 - 70.5 312400 17950 26.56 2.96
SBI ETF Sensex Next 50 - Regular Plan Not Rated - - - - - 30.04 34765 3 28.25 2.77
SBI Nifty Index Fund 7.23 8.09 9.24 7.8 9.2 59.64 258271 433 23.73 2.9
Sundaram Smart NIFTY 100 Equal Weight Not Rated - - - - - 12.44 71934 23 25.33 2.93
Tata Index Nifty Fund - Regular Plan 7.43 8.19 9.3 7.86 9.28 60.79 259012 16 23.73 2.9
Tata Index Sensex Fund - Regular Plan 9.53 9.27 10.63 8.03 9.2 70.2 313563 12 26.56 2.96
Tata Nifty Exchange Traded Fund Not Rated - - - - - 60.59 258369 77 23.73 2.9
Taurus Nifty Index Fund - Regular Plan Not Rated 7.26 7.91 8.99 7.64 - 59.86 227283 1 23.73 2.9
UTI Nifty Exchange Traded Fund Not Rated 8.09 - 10.16 - - 60.78 258300 13925 23.73 2.9
UTI Nifty Index Fund - Regular Plan 7.78 8.68 9.78 8.51 9.6 60.77 258326 1408 23.73 2.9
UTI Nifty Next 50 Exchange Traded Fund Not Rated - - - - - 32.28 43996 177 34.4 3.04
UTI Nifty Next 50 Index Fund Not Rated - - - - - 31.26 43995 395 34.4 3.04
UTI S&P BSE Sensex Next 50 ETF Not Rated - - - - - 30.04 34753 11 28.25 2.77
UTI Sensex Exchange Traded Fund Not Rated 10.2 - 11.5 - - 70.69 312436 4699 26.56 2.96
ANALYST’S
CH ICE Focus on quality
A
Launch t a time when an overwhelm- up cash/debt positions in the last 18
January 2010 ing majority of large-cap months as valuations of quality
Fund manager funds have been trailing well stocks soared without matching earn-
Shreyash Devalkar
behind the benchmark, this fund has ings growth. The fund has also con-
been neck and neck with it and has centrated its portfolio to stick to qual-
beaten its category in the last one ity companies with good earnings
year. Its three- and five-year returns performance. This has pegged up
are also ahead of the benchmark and cash/debt positions to about 16 per
Over the last 12–18 category by 1-2 percentage points. cent by June 2019, helping it cushion
months, we saw The fund, in keeping with the Axis against the recent market fall.
narrowing of markets philosophy, is a strong adherent of Though the fund is a relatively
with only a handful of the ‘quality at a reasonable price’ phi- new entrant to the large-cap category,
losophy of investing. The focus is on with its debut in 2010, it has beaten
stocks contributing to
companies with a good management both its benchmark and category in
bulk of the index
pedigree, a superior and scalable seven of the eight years since launch.
movement.
business model and superior return It has contained losses well in 2011,
SHREYASH DEVALKAR
metrics in an attractive industry. the only significant bear phase it has
Though large-cap equity funds are encountered. Its limited history is a
Expense ratio (%) expected to have an 80 per cent allo- bit of handicap compared to more
DIRECT
cation to top 100 stocks, this fund seasoned funds for which a longer
0.71 0.85
MIN MEDIAN FUND MAX parks over 90 per cent in them. track record is available.
The fund has shown itself to be A fund with a no-compromise
0.01 2.47 valuation-conscious too by pegging focus on quality stocks.
REGULAR
MIN
0.90 2.08
MAX 15 lakh SIP value (`) `7.95 lakh
MEDIAN FUND
0.73
1-Year 3 lakh
0.93
Amount invested
0
12.53
3-Year Sep 2014 `10,000 invested monthly for five years (`6 lakh) Jul 2019
11.49
Fund history
11.33 Year 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 (YTD)
5-Year
9.09
Rating
16.18 Quartile ranking* 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
Recent
rally 19.61 Fund return (%) 13.49 40.85 -1.24 -3.62 38.03 6.51 6.88
Category return (%) 6.95 36.18 -1.06 3.71 30.92 1.10 1.35
Recent -17.70
crash S&P BSE Sensex 10.70 31.87 -3.68 3.47 29.56 7.18 4.81
-20.85 TRI (%)
Investment style
Growth Blend Value
Large Medium Small
Fund style
Capitalisation
Recent rally: Feb 11, 2016 — May 31, 2019 *Quartile ranking means the quartile in which the fund appears when all the funds in the category are arranged
Recent crash: Mar 04, 2015 — Feb 11, 2016 in a descending order of returns. YTD as on July 31, ‘19
Data as on July 31, ‘19.
Portfolio-related data as on June 30, ‘19. The ratings of direct and regular plans have been calculated separately in relation to their respective regular and direct peers. Hence, they can be different.
ANALYST’S
CH ICE Regaining mojo
E
Launch arlier known as HDFC Top 200 over 90 per cent allocation to large-
October 1996 Fund, it has shifted to a nar- cap stocks and does not take any cash
Fund manager rower large-cap mandate of calls to time markets.
Prashant Jain
investing manly in the top 100 stocks The fund has delivered an 8–10
after the SEBI recategorisation. After percentage-point outperformance
a slow going in 2017 and 2018, the over the benchmark and category in
fund has managed a large outperfor- the last one year. With this, the trail-
mance of both the index and the cat- ing three-year returns are 1-2 per-
egory in 2019. centage points ahead of the category
The fund is managed in a ‘growth and benchmark.
at a reasonable price’ style, with A look-back at the fund’s history
strong pegs to the benchmark. The lat- shows that the fund outpaced its
ter helps in risk control. The unique benchmark and peers by large mar-
feature of HDFC AMC’s investment gins in 2009 and 2014, while contain-
strategy has been its ability to be an ing downside to levels lower than the
early-mover in identifying significant index in bear markets like 2008 and
shifts in the sector and thematic pref- 2011. The fund’s timely shifts in sec-
Expense ratio (%) erences of the market ahead of each tor and stock preferences have result-
DIRECT new cycle. This has often led to the ed in a strong 20 per cent CAGR over
0.71 1.37 fund underperforming peers during its more than 20-year existence,
MIN MEDIAN FUND MAX
the last legs of big bull phases, while which is no mean feat.
0.01 2.47 doing very well at containing down- Regaining its mojo in the large-cap
REGULAR side in corrections. The fund has an space.
0.90 1.87
MIN MEDIAN FUND MAX
15 lakh SIP value (`) `7.44 lakh
0.01 2.67
12 lakh
Category return (%) 6.95 36.18 -1.06 3.71 30.92 1.10 1.35
Recent -24.81
crash S&P BSE Sensex 10.70 31.87 -3.68 3.47 29.56 7.18 4.81
-20.85 TRI (%)
Investment style
Growth Blend Value
Large Medium Small
Fund style
Capitalisation
Recent rally: Feb 11, 2016 — May 31, 2019 *Quartile ranking means the quartile in which the fund appears when all the funds in the category are arranged
Recent crash: Mar 04, 2015 — Feb 11, 2016 in a descending order of returns. YTD as on July 31, ‘19
Data as on July 31, ‘19.
Portfolio-related data as on June 30, ‘19. The ratings of direct and regular plans have been calculated separately in relation to their respective regular and direct peers. Hence, they can be different.
ANALYST’S
CH ICE Good in bull runs,
Launch
May 2008
Fund manager
even better in bear ones
A
Anish Tawakley,
Rajat Chandak fter beating both the category large-cap companies with a proven
and benchmark in eight of track record, quality management
the nine years since launch, and good growth potential. While
this fund has just about matched its looking for quality businesses, the
benchmark in the last one year. But fund tends to be valuation-conscious
The recent performance its performance is still superior to a and doesn’t overpay.
was largely aided by the majority of its peers. It’s four-star rat- On a three- and five-year basis, the
underweight stance in ing has therefore been upgraded to fund is now neck and neck with the
finance, banks, five stars in the past year. benchmark, but it has outperformed
The fund has traditionally had a the category by about 1 percentage
consumer non-durables,
higher-than-category allocation to point. The year-wise track record
software and petroleum
large caps. Its mandate earlier called shows that the fund has been good at
products.
for a concentrated portfolio, with the bull-market participation in 2009 and
ANISH TAWAKLEY
stock picks drawn from the top 200 2014 but even better at containing
stocks by market cap. Post the SEBI losses in bear years such as 2011 or
Expense ratio (%) reclassification, the fund remains a 2015. But the only limitation is that
DIRECT
large-cap fund, which will maintain a it hasn’t seen a serious bear market.
0.71 1.21
MIN MEDIAN FUND MAX minimum 80 per cent exposure to the A solid performer for conservative
the top 100 stocks by market cap. investors.
0.01 2.47 The scheme seeks to invest in
REGULAR
MIN
0.90 1.83
MAX 15 lakh SIP value (`) `7.30 lakh
MEDIAN FUND
Category return (%) 6.95 36.18 -1.06 3.71 30.92 1.10 1.35
Recent -18.63
crash S&P BSE Sensex 10.70 31.87 -3.68 3.47 29.56 7.18 4.81
-20.85 TRI (%)
Investment style
Growth Blend Value
Large Medium Small
Fund style
Capitalisation
Recent rally: Feb 11, 2016 — May 31, 2019 *Quartile ranking means the quartile in which the fund appears when all the funds in the category are arranged
Recent crash: Mar 04, 2015 — Feb 11, 2016 in a descending order of returns. YTD as on July 31, ‘19
Data as on July 31, ‘19.
Portfolio-related data as on June 30, ‘19. The ratings of direct and regular plans have been calculated separately in relation to their respective regular and direct peers. Hence, they can be different.
ANALYST’S
CH ICE High risk, high reward
T
Launch he Nifty Next 50 Index tends The Nifty Next 50 Index is a bas-
June 2010 to be a high-beta bet on the ket of the 50 most active and liquid
Fund manager large-cap space as stocks in it stocks on the NSE after the Nifty 50.
Kayzad Eghlim
deliver significantly higher gains This index makes up about 12 per
than the Nifty 50 during bull phases cent of the total market cap of listed
but also suffer bigger falls in a market stocks. As of July 31, 2019, its top
crash. sectors were financials (22.9 per
After a significant outperformance cent), consumer goods (18.6 per
of the large-cap category until 2018, cent), healthcare (13.4 per cent), con-
the recent market correction has led struction (9.4 per cent), auto (6.9 per
to this index trailing the large-cap cent) and so on.
category in the past year, reducing its The fund has managed a 9.4 per
rating to three stars. As this is an cent annualised return over the last
open-end fund, one can buy units five years and about 5.2 per cent in
from the fund house and need not the last three years. Given that it
own a demat account or trading tracks the Nifty Next 50, the fund can
Expense ratio (%) account to buy this index fund. display higher volatility than the
DIRECT As an open-end fund, the expense market and is subject to a high down-
0.39 0.71 ratio is at 0.85 per cent for the regu- side in bear markets.
MIN FUND MEDIAN MAX
lar plan and 0.39 per cent for the A high risk–high reward option to
0.01 2.47 direct plan, higher than that for com- own emerging blue chips.
REGULAR parable ETFs.
0.85 0.90
MIN FUND MEDIAN MAX
1-Year -11.95
3 lakh
Amount invested
0
3-Year 5.61 Sep 2014 `10,000 invested monthly for five years (`6 lakh) Jul 2019
Fund history
5-Year 10.06 Year 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 (YTD)
Rating
Recent Quartile ranking* 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
rally 15.61
Fund return (%) 5.44 43.62 6.19 7.61 45.67 -8.71 -7.31
Category return (%) 6.95 36.18 -1.06 3.71 30.92 1.10 1.35
Recent
crash -14.45
Tracking error (%) 0.85 0.81 0.58 0.54 0.24 0.34 0.45
Investment style
Growth Blend Value
Large Medium Small
Fund style
Capitalisation
Recent rally: Feb 11, 2016 — May 31, 2019 *Quartile ranking means the quartile in which the fund appears when all the funds in the category are arranged
Recent crash: Mar 04, 2015 — Feb 11, 2016 in a descending order of returns. YTD as on July 31, ‘19
Data as on July 31, ‘19.
Portfolio-related data as on June 30, ‘19. The ratings of direct and regular plans have been calculated separately in relation to their respective regular and direct peers. Hence, they can be different.
ANALYST’S
CH ICE Still the good old one
T
Launch he fund has outpaced both the es run by competent managements
April 2008 benchmark and the category and filters stocks on three buckets –
Fund manager over the past one and three business, management and valuation.
Neelesh Surana,
Gaurav Misra, years and has earned a five-star rating. The fund has outpaced its bench-
Harshad Borawake Earlier known as Mirae Asset India mark and category by 2–3 percentage
Equity Fund, this fund has been points in the last one year even as
reclassified and renamed as a large- most of its peers have found this to
cap fund from May 2019. Though the be a challenge. On a three- and five-
Even before the change earlier mandate was that of a multi- year basis, the fund is ahead of its
the fund had been cap fund, the fund was in effect man- benchmark by a good 1–4 percentage
investing more than 80 aged with a large-cap heavy portfolio, points and its category by 3–4 per-
per cent in large caps. with a very limited allocation to mid- centage points. It has thus delivered
Hence, there is no signif- and small-cap stocks. There has thus convincing outperformance during a
been not much change in its portfolio challenging market phase.
icant change in portfolio
positioning or market-cap orientation In the past, the fund has outper-
style and approach.
after this name change, though the formed both the index and peers in
GAURAV MISRA
move robs it of the flexibility to take nine out of 10 years since launch,
on a larger mid-cap allocation. except for 2018, putting in a strong
Expense ratio (%) The fund’s investment philosophy show both in big bull phases like
DIRECT
is centred on participating in quality 2009 and 2014 as also in bearish ones
0.63 0.71
MIN FUND MEDIAN MAX businesses, but with an eye on buy- like 2011. A change in mandate
ing them at reasonable valuations. It doesn’t detract from its consistent
0.01 2.47 focuses on growth-oriented business- performance.
REGULAR
MIN
0.90 1.74
MAX 10 lakh SIP value (`) `7.74 lakh
MEDIAN FUND
Category return (%) 6.95 36.18 -1.06 3.71 30.92 1.10 1.35
Recent -17.17
crash S&P BSE Sensex 10.70 31.87 -3.68 3.47 29.56 7.18 4.81
-20.85 TRI (%)
Investment style
Growth Blend Value
Large Medium Small
Fund style
Capitalisation
Recent rally: Feb 11, 2016 — May 31, 2019 *Quartile ranking means the quartile in which the fund appears when all the funds in the category are arranged
Recent crash: Mar 04, 2015 — Feb 11, 2016 in a descending order of returns. YTD as on July 31, ‘19
Data as on July 31, ‘19.
Portfolio-related data as on June 30, ‘19. The ratings of direct and regular plans have been calculated separately in relation to their respective regular and direct peers. Hence, they can be different.
` lakh
0.001
MIN AVERAGE MAX
10000 0.5
-1.13 0.64
4000 0
Expense ratio (%) January 2013 NAV and price rebased to 10,000 July 2019
0.23 0.90
MIN FUND MEDIAN MAX SIP value (`)
15 lakh `6.88 lakh
0.01 2.67
12 lakh
9 lakh
Trailing returns (%)
6 lakh
S&P BSE Sensex TRI
3 lakh
Amount invested
0
1-Year -11.38
Sep 2014 `10,000 invested monthly for five years (`6 lakh) Jul 2019
Recent 15.77 Category return (%) 5.13 44.67 7.06 7.21 46.30 -7.96 -7.05
rally
Tracking error (%) 6.95 36.18 -1.06 3.71 30.92 1.10 1.35
Recent -14.07 Avg premium/
crash 0.10 0.23 0.09 0.14 0.10 0.07 0.48
discount (%)
Investment style
Growth Blend Value
Large Medium Small
Fund style
Capitalisation
Recent rally: Feb 11, 2016 — May 31, 2019 *Quartile ranking means the quartile in which the fund appears when all the funds in the category are arranged
Recent crash: Mar 04, 2015 — Feb 11, 2016 in a descending order of returns. YTD as on November 30, ‘18
Data as on July 31, ‘19.
Portfolio-related data as on June 30, ‘19.
ANALYST’S
CH ICE Hunting for leaders
A
Launch t a time when most large-cap percentage points, respectively, in the
August 2007 funds have struggled to last one year. It is ahead of the
Fund manager match their benchmarks, this benchmark by 1–2 percentage points
Sailesh Raj Bhan
fund has outperformed it, thus climb- over three and five years and has
ing to a five-star rating in the past beaten peers by a slightly larger mar-
one year. gin of 2–3 percentage points over
The fund follows a ‘growth at a similar periods.
reasonable price’ approach. It hunts The fund used to be mid-cap
The emphasis on right for companies which are leaders or heavy six years ago, but since 2014
businesses along with potential leaders in their respective has maintained a 75–80 per cent allo-
right valuations and a segments. Businesses with a long cation to large-cap stocks. The SEBI
medium-term invest- operating history, dominant industry recategorisation therefore did not
standing and sustainable and profit- have much impact on the fund.
ment horizon have been
able growth are the key ones that find Its annual returns suggest that it is
critical to long-term
place in the portfolio. an aggressive outperformer of the
wealth creation.
In keeping with its focus on blue market in big bull phases like 2012,
SAILESH RAJ BHAN
chips, the fund avoids companies 2014 and 2017 while lagging behind
with fractured balance sheets or gov- it in bear phases like 2011. But the
Expense ratio (%) ernance issues. At the same time, it is fund has displayed good downside
DIRECT
also valuation-conscious and doesn’t containment in the last six years.
0.71 1.07
MIN MEDIAN FUND MAX overpay for growth or quality. An alpha-generator in the large-
The fund has outperformed the cap space.
0.01 2.47 benchmark and category by 4 and 5
REGULAR
MIN
0.90 1.77
MAX 10 lakh SIP value (`) `7.37 lakh
MEDIAN FUND
-0.24
1-Year 2 lakh
0.93
Amount invested
0
10.17
3-Year Sep 2014 `10,000 invested monthly for five years (`6 lakh) Jul 2019
11.49
Fund history
11.04 Year 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 (YTD)
5-Year
9.09 Rating
13.99 Quartile ranking* 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
Recent
rally 19.61 Fund return (%) 4.15 54.65 1.11 2.23 38.42 -0.20 0.09
Category return (%) 6.95 36.18 -1.06 3.71 30.92 1.10 1.35
-20.81
Recent S&P BSE Sensex
crash TRI (%) 10.70 31.87 -3.68 3.47 29.56 7.18 4.81
-20.85
Investment style
Growth Blend Value
Large Medium Small
Fund style
Capitalisation
Recent rally: Feb 11, 2016 — May 31, 2019 *Quartile ranking means the quartile in which the fund appears when all the funds in the category are arranged
Recent crash: Mar 04, 2015 — Feb 11, 2016 in a descending order of returns. YTD as on July 31, ‘19
Data as on July 31, ‘19.
Portfolio-related data as on June 30, ‘19. The ratings of direct and regular plans have been calculated separately in relation to their respective regular and direct peers. Hence, they can be different.
ANALYST’S
CH ICE Driven by process
A
Launch fter a blip in performance rel- fund narrowed this gap in 2019 with
February 2006 ative to the benchmark and corrective measures. On a three-year
Fund manager the category in 2018, the basis, the fund is now trailing the
Sohini Andani
fund has pulled up its socks to catch benchmark by about 3 percentage
up. This has helped it retain its four- points and category by about 2 per-
star rating. A steady climber in the centage points. However, this may get
large-cap ranking, this fund has man- corrected once the fund’s long-term
aged to beat its benchmark and cate- positions in sectors such as industri-
For identifying stocks, gory in six of the last seven years. als pay off.
we look for any positive It focuses on investing in business- Large margins of outperformance
change in leadership, es and managements that tend to in the preceding years have resulted
monitoring key consistently outperform on profit in the fund beating both the bench-
growth with efficient capital-alloca- mark and category by over 2 percent-
strategic decisions of
tion policies. This is combined with a age points over a five-year period. A
the management which
view on structural growth drivers for look back at its history suggests that
would drive growth.
the sector and positive change in sec- it has been quite good at outpacing
SOHINI ANDANI
tor dynamics. Stock valuations are the markets in big bull phases such
important for deciding relative as 2007 and 2014 and has also con-
Expense ratio (%) weights in the portfolio. tained its losses to index levels in
DIRECT
After trailing the benchmark on bear markets like 2008 and 2011.
0.71 1.10
MIN MEDIAN FUND MAX account of lower weights in sectors A process-driven fund for large-
such as IT and energy in 2018, the cap investors.
0.01 2.47
REGULAR
SIP value (`)
MIN
0.90 1.70
MAX 15 lakh `7.13 lakh
MEDIAN FUND
-11.87
Quartile ranking* 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
Recent
rally
19.61 Fund return (%) 7.58 47.86 7.99 4.83 30.23 -4.09 2.88
Category return (%) 6.95 36.18 -1.06 3.71 30.92 1.10 1.35
Recent -11.87
crash S&P BSE MidCap 10.70 31.87 -3.68 3.47 29.56 7.18 4.81
-20.85 TRI (%)
Investment style
Growth Blend Value
Large Medium Small
Fund style
Capitalisation
Recent rally: Feb 11, 2016 — May 31, 2019 *Quartile ranking means the quartile in which the fund appears when all the funds in the category are arranged
Recent crash: Mar 04, 2015 — Feb 11, 2016 in a descending order of returns. YTD as on July 31, ‘19
Data as on July 31, ‘19.
Portfolio-related data as on June 30, ‘19. The ratings of direct and regular plans have been calculated separately in relation to their respective regular and direct peers. Hence, they can be different.
0.13 24
MIN MAX 12000
` lakh
AVERAGE
8000 0
August 2015 NAV and price rebased to 10,000 July 2019
Expense ratio (%)
0.07
MIN FUND
1.97
MAX
SIP value (`)
MEDIAN
10 lakh `4.04 lakh
0.01 3.10 8 lakh
6 lakh
Trailing returns (%) 4 lakh
S&P BSE Sensex TRI 2 lakh
Amount invested
0
1-Year -0.88
Aug 2016 `10,000 invested monthly for three years (`3.6 lakh) Jul 2019
Recent 17.50
Category return (%) - - - 4.47 30.16 4.58 3.24
rally
Tracking error (%) - - - 3.71 30.92 1.10 1.35
Recent Avg premium/ - - - 0.04 0.02 0.03 0.01
crash discount (%)
Investment style
Growth Blend Value
Large Medium Small
Fund style
Capitalisation
Recent rally: Feb 11, 2016 — May 31, 2019 *Quartile ranking means the quartile in which the fund appears when all the funds in the category are arranged
Recent crash: Mar 04, 2015 — Feb 11, 2016 in a descending order of returns. YTD as on July 31, ‘19
Data as on July 31, ‘19.
Portfolio-related data as on June 30, ‘19.
ANALYST’S
CH ICE The demat-free, low-cost
Launch
March 2000
Fund manager
option to own the market
W
Sharwan Kumar
Goyal ith most actively managed ratio of 0.17 per cent and the direct
large-cap funds struggling plan at 0.10 per cent.
to keep up with the Nifty As of July 31, 2019, the Nifty 50
50 of late, owning passive index basket currently has a 40 per cent
funds mirroring the Nifty 50 has weight in financial services, 14.8 per
begun to make more sense. cent in technology, 14.8 per cent in
For investors who don’t own demat energy, 8.5 per cent in FMCG and so
accounts, UTI Nifty Index Fund is a on. The high financial-services
good option on account of its low weight does lead to higher concentra-
costs. On a trailing one-year basis, tion risks on this fund compared to
this fund has outperformed the large- actively managed large-cap funds.
cap category, which also includes However, investors need to wait
actively managed funds, by 2.4 per- and watch to see if the narrow rally
Expense ratio (%) centage points. On a three-year basis, that has led to index funds outpacing
DIRECT too, the fund has outpaced the cate- active large-cap funds is sustained in
0.10 0.71
MIN FUND MEDIAN MAX gory by 1 percentage point. the long run.
The fund’s regular plan is avail-
0.01 2.47 able at a very reasonable expense
REGULAR
0.17 0.90
MIN FUND MEDIAN MAX
SIP value (`)
0.01 2.67 15 lakh `7.43 lakh
12 lakh
Trailing returns (%)
9 lakh
S&P BSE Sensex TRI
6 lakh
1-Year -1.08
3 lakh
Amount invested
3-Year 9.78
0
Sep 2014 `10,000 invested monthly for five years (`6 lakh) Jul 2019
5-Year
Fund history
8.51
Year 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 (YTD)
Rating
Recent Quartile ranking* 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
rally 17.15
Fund return (%) 6.86 31.77 -3.35 4.00 29.68 4.23 3.14
Recent Category return (%) 6.95 36.18 -1.06 3.71 30.92 1.10 1.35
crash -21.10
Tracking error (%) 0.23 0.20 0.22 0.17 0.15 0.11 0.02
Investment style
Growth Blend Value
Large Medium Small
Fund style
Capitalisation
Recent rally: Feb 11, 2016 — May 31, 2019 *Quartile ranking means the quartile in which the fund appears when all the funds in the category are arranged
Recent crash: Mar 04, 2015 — Feb 11, 2016 in a descending order of returns. YTD as on July 31, ‘19
Data as on July 31, ‘19.
Portfolio-related data as on June 30, ‘19. The ratings of direct and regular plans have been calculated separately in relation to their respective regular and direct peers. Hence, they can be different.
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Performance snapshot
Here are the performance data of the Indian mutual-fund industry as of July 2019
Category/benchmark 1 mth 3 mths 6 mths 1 yr 2 yrs 3 yrs 5 yrs 7 yrs 10 yrs 15 yrs 20 yrs
Equity: Large Cap -5.26 -4.72 2.46 -2.69 4.38 8.76 8.64 12.53 10.16 14.26 13.72
Equity: Large & MidCap -6.31 -5.06 0.94 -6.19 -0.3 6.84 10.13 14.69 11.88 16.07 15.5
Equity: Multi Cap -5.81 -4.63 2.07 -4.95 1.3 7.26 9.66 13.85 11.88 15.45 16.01
Equity: Mid Cap -7.7 -7.11 -2.38 -11.33 -3.7 4.28 10.54 16.86 14.96 17.46 17.23
Equity: Small Cap -9.15 -9.6 -4.76 -14.99 -6.34 3.57 10.44 16.06 13.49 - -
Equity: Value Oriented -6.91 -6.89 -1.06 -9.52 -1.54 5.73 9.26 14.29 12.53 16.79 16.93
Equity: ELSS -6.3 -5.08 1.1 -5.83 0.53 7.04 9.65 14 11.7 15.5 15.89
Equity: International 0.39 0.27 3.28 1.5 6.82 7.32 4.2 5.91 5.17 7.08 -
S&P BSE Sensex Total Return Index -4.6 -3.33 4.25 0.93 8.65 11.49 9.09 13.3 10.68 15.75 12.93
S&P BSE Sensex Next 50 TRI -7.15 -7.53 -3.89 -9.73 -4.59 3.87 7.56 12.97 10.51 - -
S&P BSE 500 Total Return Index -6.07 -5.8 1.08 -5.28 2.76 8.63 9.17 13.2 10.7 15.04 13.62
S&P BSE Large Mid Cap TRI -5.65 -5.15 1.91 -3.39 4.09 9.11 9.27 13.28 10.78 - -
S&P BSE Mid Cap TRI -7.56 -7.92 -5.66 -13.89 -4.91 3.62 9.47 13.86 10.81 14.6 -
S&P BSE Small Cap TRI -10.6 -12.88 -8.41 -22.77 -10.48 1.8 5.83 11.33 8.71 16.1 -
Equity: Sectoral-Banking -7.68 -2.96 5.34 -0.54 1.59 10.76 9.86 11.91 11.34 18.89 -
S&P BSE Bankex Total Return Index -6.42 -1.64 6.68 5.86 7.66 15.14 14.06 16.49 15.6 19.59 -
Equity: Sectoral-Infrastructure -8.94 -5.11 3.08 -7.63 -4.27 4.28 6.58 10.4 6.28 14.72 -
S&P BSE India Infrastructure TRI -12.47 -9.9 0.37 -9.44 -8.07 3.71 2.56 9.79 3.97 - -
Equity: Sectoral-Pharma -0.31 -7.05 -4.55 -4.83 -2.12 -5.05 3.39 10.71 14.88 15.15 -
S&P BSE Healthcare TRI -1.09 -11.25 -8.08 -9.97 -4.8 -7.43 1.14 9.22 13.6 12.95 12
Equity: Sectoral-Technology -0.83 -4.48 -0.09 1.64 18.99 12.93 10.7 17.28 15.36 15.48 13.57
S&P BSE IT Total Return Index 0.79 -2.19 4.24 10.29 25.1 15.58 12.22 18.96 16.94 16.59 13.73
Hybrid: Aggressive Hybrid -4.27 -3.54 1.56 -2.77 1.6 6.5 8.86 12.55 10.93 13.57 13.28
Hybrid: Balanced Hybrid -2.96 -2.28 1.59 -1.47 1.58 5.37 7.83 9.76 8.94 10.2 10.52
Hybrid: Conservative Hybrid -0.63 0.21 2.72 3.11 3.4 5.88 7.74 8.85 8.27 9.46 8.16
VR Balanced Total Return Index -4.36 -3.34 3.91 0.96 6.49 9.62 8.75 11.82 9.84 12.83 -
VR MIP Total Return Index -0.9 1.33 5.15 6.93 6.74 8.01 8.28 9.28 8.13 8.51 -
Debt: Long Duration 3.21 10.38 12.07 19.87 8.1 9.08 10.2 9.19 8.08 8.32 8.99
Debt: Medium Duration 1.56 0.89 2.02 5.19 5.01 6.39 7.63 7.91 7.42 6.83 7.6
Debt: Short Duration 1.38 0.07 1.79 5.35 4.85 5.95 7.09 7.56 7.5 7.56 -
Debt: Ultra Short Duration 0.86 1.59 3.34 6.17 6.05 6.45 7.29 8.07 7.9 6.97 7.39
Debt: Liquid 0.54 1.67 3.4 6.83 6.85 6.76 7.36 7.85 7.66 7.32 7.3
Debt: Dynamic Bond 1.9 3.71 5.4 9.59 5.22 6.61 8.32 8.26 7.93 6.88 8.12
Debt: Corporate Bond 1.48 -0.04 1.58 4.78 4.29 5.5 7.06 7.11 6.75 6.75 7.65
Debt: Credit Risk 1.02 -2.57 -1.24 0.69 2.69 4.66 7.62 8.13 7.29 - -
CCIL All Sovereign Bond - TRI 2.88 9.1 10.91 19.44 8.76 8.99 10.71 9.77 8.39 7.59 -
CCIL T Bill Liquidity Weight 0.42 1.23 2.26 4.58 4.27 4.24 4.67 4.91 4.6 4.52 -
VR Bond Index 1.4 4.5 5.95 11.06 6.9 7.04 7.99 7.89 7.18 6.74 -
Returns (%) as on July 31, 2019
SIP returns
Worth of the monthly SIP of `10,000, aggregating to `12 lakh in ten years
5-year 10-year 5-year 10-year
Return Value Return Value Return Value Return Value
Scheme name Rating (%) (` lakh) (%) (` lakh) Scheme name Rating (%) (` lakh) (%) (` lakh)
Canara Robeco Emerging Equities 8.33 7.40 17.81 30.59 Invesco India Growth Opportunities 8.24 7.38 12.23 22.68
SBI Focused Equity 10.82 7.87 15.50 27.01 ICICI Pru Multicap 7.71 7.29 12.19 22.63
Principal Emerging Bluechip 6.64 7.09 15.14 26.49 Principal Multi Cap Growth 6.84 7.13 12.16 22.59
Franklin India Prima 5.87 6.96 14.87 26.12 SBI Bluechip 7.17 7.19 12.16 22.59
Franklin India Smaller Companies 2.16 6.34 14.84 26.08 Principal Tax Savings 6.59 7.08 12.14 22.57
Mirae Asset Large Cap Regular 10.49 7.81 14.73 25.92 IDFC Multi Cap Reg 4.02 6.64 12.13 22.55
Kotak Emerging Equity Reg 6.50 7.07 14.71 25.89 Aditya Birla SL Pure Value 0.00 6.00 12.10 22.52
DSP Small Cap Reg 1.10 6.17 14.70 25.88 Quant Active 7.54 7.26 12.09 22.51
HDFC Mid-Cap Opportunities 4.74 6.76 14.66 25.83 BNP Paribas Long Term Equity 6.23 7.02 12.01 22.41
L&T Midcap 5.78 6.94 14.64 25.79 DSP Equity Opportunities 7.38 7.23 11.98 22.38
Franklin India Focused Equity 7.55 7.26 14.55 25.67 Kotak Equity Opportunities Reg 7.67 7.28 11.96 22.35
Edelweiss Mid Cap Reg 4.23 6.68 14.36 25.42 BNP Paribas Large Cap 7.58 7.26 11.94 22.33
DSP Midcap Reg 6.72 7.11 14.17 25.15 ICICI Pru Bluechip 8.04 7.35 11.90 22.28
Invesco India Mid Cap 4.95 6.80 14.08 25.03 Franklin India Taxshield 5.49 6.89 11.85 22.22
Invesco India Contra 8.78 7.48 13.77 24.62 Canara Robeco Equity Hybrid Reg 8.02 7.34 11.83 22.20
Reliance Focused Equity 5.90 6.96 13.75 24.60 Aditya Birla SL Focused Equity 6.87 7.13 11.83 22.19
Invesco India Multicap Not rated 3.57 6.57 13.73 24.57 Reliance Multi Cap 5.47 6.89 11.78 22.14
Tata Midcap Growth Reg 5.05 6.82 13.64 24.45 Tata Large & Mid Cap Reg 7.72 7.29 11.76 22.12
BNP Paribas Midcap 3.15 6.50 13.60 24.40 HDFC Equity 8.35 7.40 11.76 22.11
Tata India Tax Savings 9.27 7.58 13.57 24.35 Taurus Discovery (Midcap) Reg 3.97 6.63 11.74 22.09
Quant Focused Not rated 6.86 7.13 13.40 24.14 Kotak Small Cap Reg 2.49 6.39 11.72 22.07
DSP Tax Saver 8.49 7.43 13.31 24.02 BNP Paribas Multi Cap 5.82 6.95 11.67 22.01
SBI Magnum MultiCap 9.15 7.55 13.25 23.95 HDFC Capital Builder Value 5.82 6.95 11.66 21.99
ICICI Pru Value Discovery 4.46 6.72 13.22 23.91 Sundaram Large and Mid Cap 8.73 7.48 11.58 21.90
Tata Equity PE Reg 7.52 7.25 13.16 23.82 JM Tax Gain 8.18 7.37 11.54 21.86
ICICI Pru Equity & Debt 8.44 7.42 13.09 23.75 Kotak Tax Saver Reg 8.04 7.35 11.42 21.72
ICICI Pru Midcap 4.46 6.72 13.08 23.73 Canara Robeco Equity Tax Saver Reg 7.91 7.32 11.41 21.71
Invesco India Tax Plan 7.38 7.23 13.03 23.67 Aditya Birla SL Frontline Equity 6.47 7.06 11.41 21.70
HDFC Children’s Gift 7.71 7.29 12.93 23.54 Franklin India Equity 4.65 6.75 11.39 21.68
Aditya Birla SL Equity 7.45 7.24 12.80 23.38 Reliance ETF Junior BeES Not rated 5.68 6.93 11.36 21.65
Sundaram Mid Cap Reg 2.71 6.43 12.79 23.36 Kotak India EQ Contra Reg 8.97 7.52 11.36 21.65
UTI Mid Cap Reg 0.78 6.12 12.74 23.30 UTI Equity Reg 6.65 7.10 11.34 21.63
SBI Equity Hybrid 9.12 7.55 12.71 23.27 DSP Equity 7.83 7.31 11.33 21.62
HDFC Small Cap Reg 7.01 7.16 12.52 23.03 Edelweiss Large Cap Reg 7.88 7.32 11.33 21.61
SBI Magnum Midcap 0.62 6.10 12.50 23.00 ICICI Pru Child Care-Gift 6.61 7.09 11.32 21.60
Reliance Large Cap 8.45 7.42 12.47 22.97 HDFC Top 100 8.79 7.49 11.31 21.59
SBI Large & Midcap 7.27 7.21 12.43 22.92 JM Multicap 8.76 7.48 11.24 21.52
ICICI Pru LT Equity (Tax Saving) 7.10 7.18 12.37 22.85 Principal Hybrid Equity 8.05 7.35 11.20 21.47
Quant Large and Mid Cap Not rated 5.87 6.96 12.32 22.79 IDFC Sterling Value Reg 3.58 6.57 11.20 21.47
Aditya Birla SL Tax Relief 96 6.33 7.04 12.32 22.78 Tata Hybrid Equity Reg 5.34 6.87 11.20 21.46
IDFC Tax Advantage (ELSS) Reg 6.16 7.01 12.31 22.77 Aditya Birla SL Small Cap 0.84 6.13 11.12 21.37
L&T Tax Adv 6.02 6.98 11.08 21.33 UTI CCF-Investment Plan Reg 5.07 6.82 9.46 19.57
Aditya Birla SL Equity Advantage Reg 3.99 6.64 11.08 21.33 BOI AXA Tax Advantage Reg 4.57 6.73 9.42 19.53
Canara Robeco Equity Diversified Reg 8.19 7.37 11.06 21.30 SBI Nifty Index 8.09 7.36 9.39 19.50
Reliance Value 6.43 7.06 11.05 21.30 ICICI Pru Focused Equity 5.35 6.87 9.39 19.50
Aditya Birla SL Mid Cap 2.37 6.37 10.89 21.12 LIC MF Index Sensex 8.42 7.42 9.37 19.48
ICICI Pru Sensex ETF Not rated 9.94 7.70 10.89 21.11 Franklin India Life Stage FoF 20s 4.67 6.75 9.33 19.44
HSBC Tax Saver Equity 5.12 6.83 10.82 21.04 Franklin IIF NSE Nifty 7.69 7.28 9.31 19.42
Franklin India Equity Hybrid 5.97 6.98 10.79 21.01 ICICI Pru Smallcap 2.05 6.32 9.27 19.38
Quant Tax Plan 8.63 7.45 10.78 20.99 Sundaram Small Cap Reg -3.64 5.47 9.26 19.37
Reliance Growth 5.57 6.91 10.78 20.99 IDFC Core Equity Reg 5.90 6.96 9.26 19.37
DSP Equity & Bond 7.47 7.24 10.76 20.97 LIC MF Large Cap 6.33 7.04 9.25 19.36
Edelweiss Large & Mid Cap Reg 6.90 7.14 10.74 20.95 UTI Long Term Equity 4.67 6.75 9.14 19.25
Kotak Sensex ETF Not rated 9.83 7.68 10.72 20.93 Aditya Birla SL Index 7.63 7.27 9.14 19.25
L&T Large and Midcap 4.11 6.66 10.67 20.87 UTI Value Opportunities Reg 4.70 6.76 9.14 19.24
Aditya Birla SL Equity Hybrid ‘95 5.30 6.86 10.65 20.85 HSBC Small Cap Equity -1.21 5.82 9.13 19.24
Franklin India Equity Advantage 3.83 6.61 10.48 20.66 LIC MF Index Nifty 7.41 7.23 9.09 19.20
LIC MF Tax Plan 7.00 7.16 10.47 20.65 Kotak Equity Hybrid Reg 6.20 7.02 9.08 19.18
Quant Absolute Not rated 6.86 7.13 10.46 20.64 Franklin India Bluechip 4.27 6.68 8.92 19.03
HDFC Index Sensex 9.69 7.65 10.44 20.62 Reliance ETF Shariah BeES Not rated 6.38 7.05 8.87 18.97
Reliance ETF Nifty BeES Not rated 8.90 7.51 10.43 20.60 UTI Hybrid Equity Reg 4.84 6.78 8.82 18.93
L&T Equity 5.40 6.88 10.39 20.56 Templeton India Value 3.35 6.53 8.78 18.89
Quantum Nifty ETF Not rated 8.84 7.50 10.38 20.55 UTI Core Equity Reg 3.50 6.56 8.66 18.77
Reliance Equity Hybrid 4.84 6.78 10.37 20.54 DSP Top 100 Equity Reg 5.01 6.81 8.60 18.70
JM Core 11 7.79 7.30 10.31 20.47 HDFC Focused 30 3.91 6.62 8.59 18.70
L&T India Large Cap 6.67 7.10 10.28 20.44 Sundaram Equity Hybrid Reg 7.96 7.33 8.58 18.69
ICICI Pru Large & Mid Cap 5.46 6.89 10.23 20.39 IDFC Large Cap Reg 6.00 6.98 8.54 18.65
Tata Large Cap Reg 7.21 7.20 10.18 20.34 HDFC Hybrid Equity 4.72 6.76 8.42 18.53
UTI Mastershare Reg 6.62 7.09 10.15 20.31 Baroda Multi Cap 3.90 6.62 7.98 18.10
Edelweiss LT Equity (Tax Savings) 4.60 6.74 10.11 20.26 JM Large Cap 4.84 6.78 7.95 18.08
Kotak Bluechip Reg 6.36 7.04 10.10 20.25 LIC MF ULIS 5.73 6.93 7.79 17.93
Reliance Tax Saver (ELSS) -0.48 5.93 10.10 20.25 Reliance Vision 1.57 6.24 7.70 17.85
HSBC Multi Cap Equity 3.60 6.57 10.07 20.22 Baroda Hybrid Equity 3.89 6.62 7.70 17.84
DHFL Pramerica Large Cap 6.79 7.12 10.06 20.21 Baroda ELSS 96 2.24 6.35 7.66 17.81
Principal Focused Multicap 6.24 7.02 10.02 20.16 LIC MF Equity Hybrid 5.27 6.85 7.47 17.63
Taurus Tax Shield Reg 7.30 7.21 9.98 20.12 Taurus Starshare (Multi Cap) Reg 2.16 6.34 7.40 17.57
UTI Nifty Index Reg 8.68 7.47 9.97 20.12 DHFL Pramerica Hybrid Equity 3.49 6.55 7.40 17.56
HDFC Index Fund Nifty 50 8.59 7.45 9.97 20.11 HDFC Growth Opportunities Reg 4.45 6.71 7.17 17.35
JM Value Not rated 6.79 7.12 9.93 20.07 LIC MF Multicap 3.70 6.59 6.99 17.19
HDFC Taxsaver 4.68 6.75 9.87 20.00 IDFC Focused Equity Reg 3.42 6.54 6.97 17.17
Sundaram Select Focus Reg 9.22 7.57 9.84 19.98 Taurus Largecap Equity Reg 3.22 6.51 6.86 17.07
Tata Index Sensex Reg 9.27 7.58 9.82 19.95 BOI AXA Large & Mid Cap Equity Reg 1.53 6.24 6.83 17.05
SBI Magnum Taxgain 3.80 6.60 9.75 19.88 SBI Contra 1.08 6.17 6.77 17.00
Sundaram Diversified Equity 4.77 6.77 9.71 19.84 Principal Nifty 100 Equal Weight 2.46 6.39 6.66 16.90
ICICI Pru Nifty Index 7.98 7.34 9.71 19.83 Quant Mid Cap Not rated 1.77 6.28 6.54 16.79
HSBC Large Cap Equity 7.99 7.34 9.64 19.76 JM Equity Hybrid -1.32 5.80 5.55 15.95
Tata Index Nifty Reg 8.19 7.37 9.48 19.59 Quant Small Cap Not rated -5.97 5.15 2.47 13.60
Data as on July 31, 2019
FUNDS
month for bond funds. In the case of equity funds, a fund’s overall rating
stems from a weighted average of two time periods – three and five years –
where available. Equity funds less than three-year old are not rated and bond
funds with less than eighteen-month history are also not rated.
DEBT (75/221)
HYBRID: CONSERVATIVE HYBRID Franklin India Income Opportunities Fund Franklin India Ultra Short Bond Fund
Aditya Birla Sun Life Regular Savings Fund HDFC Medium Term Debt Fund SBI Magnum Ultra Short Duration Fund
Franklin India Life Stage FoF 40s Indiabulls Income Fund - Regular Plan DEBT: DYNAMIC BOND
Franklin India Life Stage FoF 50s Plus SBI Magnum Medium Duration Fund DHFL Pramerica Dynamic Bond Fund
Franklin India Life Stage FoF 50s Plus-FR UTI Medium Term Fund - Regular Plan Franklin India Dynamic Accrual Fund
HDFC Retirement Savings - Hybrid Debt ICICI Prudential All Seasons Bond Fund
DEBT: SHORT DURATION
ICICI Prudential Regular Savings Fund Kotak Dynamic Bond Fund - Regular Plan
Axis Short Term Fund
IDFC Asset Allocation - Conservative Plan Quantum Dynamic Bond Fund
Baroda Short Term Bond Fund
IDFC Asset Allocation - Moderate Plan SBI Dynamic Bond Fund
BNP Paribas Short Term Fund
Indiabulls Savings Income Fund
Franklin India Short Term Income Plan DEBT: CORPORATE BOND
Kotak Asset Allocator Fund Regular Plan
HDFC Short Term Debt Fund Aditya Birla Sun Life Corporate Bond Fund
SBI Magnum Children’s Benefit Fund
IDFC Bond Fund Short Term Plan Franklin India Corporate Debt Fund
Tata Retirement Savings - Conservative
Indiabulls Short Term Fund - Regular Plan HDFC Corporate Bond Fund
UTI Regular Savings Fund - Regular Plan
L&T Short Term Bond Fund Fund Kotak Corporate Bond Fund
DEBT: MEDIUM TO LONG DURATION Invesco India Treasury Advantage Fund Kotak Credit Risk Fund Regular Plan
Canara Robeco Income Fund Kotak Low Duration Fund - Standard Plan SBI Credit Risk Fund
DEBT: MEDIUM DURATION BOI AXA Ultra Short Duration Fund LIC MF Banking & PSU Debt Fund
Axis Strategic Bond Fund DHFL Pramerica Ultra Short Term Fund
RATING DOWNGRADE List of funds that moved out of the five- and four-star grades in July 2019
Aditya Birla SL Active Debt Multi-Manager FoF Scheme DHFL Pramerica Low Duration Fund IDFC Banking & PSU Debt Fund - Regular Plan
Aditya Birla SL Banking & PSU Debt Fund ICICI Prudential Thematic Advantage Fund Reliance Hybrid Bond Fund
The ratings for all funds, except Quantum AMC funds, are for regular plans. Direct plans have been excluded. Funds suspended for sale have also been excluded.
FUNDS
into account the return as well as risk undertaken to achieve that return.
Risk-adjusted return from a fund is the sole basis of Value Research fund
rating (detailed methodology on page 62). Below are the schemes in various
categories that have been rated five and four star.
EQUITY (71/216)
HYBRID: AGGRESSIVE HYBRID LIC MF Large & Mid Cap Fund - EQUITY: SMALL CAP
Canara Robeco Equity Hybrid Fund Mirae Asset Emerging Bluechip Fund Axis Small Cap Fund - Regular Plan
DSP Equity & Bond Fund Principal Emerging Bluechip Fund Franklin India Smaller Companies Fund
HDFC Children’s Gift Fund Sundaram Large and Mid Cap Fund HDFC Small Cap Fund - Regular Plan
HDFC Hybrid Equity Fund L&T Emerging Businesses Fund
EQUITY: MULTI CAP
HDFC Retirement Savings - Hybrid Equity Reliance Small Cap Fund
Aditya Birla Sun Life Equity Fund
ICICI Prudential Equity & Debt Fund SBI Small Cap Fund
Axis Focused 25 Fund
Mirae Asset Hybrid Equity Fund
Canara Robeco Equity Diversified Fund EQUITY: VALUE ORIENTED
Principal Hybrid Equity Fund Invesco India Contra Fund
Edelweiss Multi Cap Fund - Regular Plan
SBI Equity Hybrid Fund Kotak India EQ Contra Fund - Regular Plan
Franklin India Focused Equity Fund
Tata Retirement Savings - Moderate Plan L&T India Value Fund
HDFC Retirement Savings Fund Equity Plan
EQUITY: LARGE CAP ICICI Prudential Multicap Fund Tata Equity PE Fund - Regular Plan
Axis Bluechip Fund IIFL Focused Equity Fund - Regular Plan
EQUITY: ELSS
Canara Robeco Bluechip Equity Kotak Standard Multicap Fund Regular Plan Aditya Birla Sun Life Tax Relief 96
Edelweiss Large Cap Fund - Regular Plan Motilal Oswal Multicap 35 Fund Axis Long Term Equity Fund
HDFC Index Fund - Sensex Plan Parag Parikh Long Term Equity Fund DSP Tax Saver Fund
HDFC Top 100 Fund Quant Active Fund IDFC Tax Advantage (ELSS) Fund
ICICI Prudential Bluechip Fund SBI Focused Equity Fund Invesco India Tax Plan
JM Core 11 Fund SBI Magnum Multicap Fund JM Tax Gain Fund
Mirae Asset Large Cap Fund - Regular Plan Tata Retirement Savings - Progressive Plan Kotak Tax Saver Regular Plan
Motilal Oswal Focused 25 Fund Mirae Asset Tax Saver Fund - Regular Plan
EQUITY: MID CAP
Reliance Large Cap Fund Motilal Oswal Long Term Equity Fund
Axis Midcap Fund
SBI Bluechip Fund Quant Tax Plan
DSP Midcap Fund - Regular Plan
Sundaram Select Focus Fund - Regular Plan Tata India Tax Savings Fund
Franklin India Prima Fund
Canara Robeco Emerging Equities Fund Kotak Emerging Equity Scheme
Invesco India Growth Opportunities Fund L&T Midcap Fund
RATING DOWNGRADE List of funds that moved out of the five- and four-star grades in July 2019
Tata Retirement Savings Fund - Progressive Plan
The ratings for all funds, except Quantum AMC funds, are for regular plans. Direct plans have been excluded. Funds suspended for sale have also been excluded.
mutual fund ratings are revised every month. The above ratings are as on July 31, 2019.
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