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Mutual Fund | Portfolio Yoga - Part 5

Category: Mutual Fund

Smart SIP & Market Timing 2

Smart SIP & Market Timing

Systematic Investment Planning also called Dollar Cost Averaging is a age old formula where one invests a equivalent sum of money on a specific date regardless of where the market / stock / fund is trading at. The idea is that by investing in all kinds of market (Bull / Bear and the Flat), you get returns that are equal...

Robo-advisory in India 1

Robo-advisory in India

Yesterday’s edition of Mint featured a wonderful article on Robo Advisories in India (Link). Its a very nice review of the ones that are available in India though the article doesn’t go deep into their philosophies and methodologies. For me though, the last para (part of which is reproduced below) held the key. Ultimately, its portfolio performance that will matter....

The future is Robo 0

The future is Robo

Way back in 2000, while trading had already moved from the pits (or rings as it was called in India) to the VSAT linked trading terminals, we still did not have any stock broker who allowed or offered internet trading to retail clients. Clients either visited the stock broker office or called on the telephone to place orders. In those...

Past Performance and Future Expectations 1

Past Performance and Future Expectations

All Mutual Funds carry a disclaimer saying “Past performance of the sponsor / AMC / Mutual Fund does not indicate the future performance of the Scheme(s)” Yet, in real life everyone including Mutual Funds want you to see the past performance and while they don’t claim anything, the message sent across is that there is correlation between past and the...

Index funds or Index ETF / ETS 3

Index funds or Index ETF / ETS

While passive investing is yet to pick up in India, almost all Mutual funds offer a choice of Index funds which try to track returns generated by Nifty / Sensex. But when one does go the passive way, should one invest in Index funds or with Exchange Traded Funds is the key question. The answer as the following graphic shows...

Bees Saal Baad 2

Bees Saal Baad

Twenty years is a long enough time frame to understand and validate processes and theories, but does that also mean that the next Twenty years will be similar in nature and stature to the 20 years past? We Technical Analysts believe that “History tends to repeat itself”. But even the strongest votary of such a idea will laugh if you...

Power is Power 2

Power is Power

In the second season of HBO’s fantasy television series Game of Thrones, there is a interesting exchange of dialogue about the nature of power between Cersei and Littlefinger. While Lord Petyr Baelish (known as Littlefinger) tries to home in on the fact that Knowledge is Power, Cersei shows that ultimately Power is Power. I was reminded of the above exchange...