TOP MUTUAL FUND SECRETS This special report has certain aspects of mutual funds that the mainstream media won’t tell you. Here are the key things that you need to know. - Ensure that the fund you’re buying has a low turnover. High turnover literally means that the fund manager is trading with your money (trust me, you don’t want that)
- Choose the AMC carefully, one that has the track record of managing most of its schemes successfully.
- Ensure that your fund has a Good and Stable fund manager. If the fund manager of your scheme changes frequently, avoid that fund.
- Look for funds with a lower expense ratio (less than 1.25% for direct plans is desirable) Remember, higher the expense ratio, lower the return.
- Ensure that your fund is not a bull market wonder. Check that it has a good long-term track record of market beating performance, even during market crashes. Avoid the temptation to buy only because of recent good performance
- Pay attention to the amount of diversification. Sometimes, fund managers tend to overdo it. Avoid funds with more than 50 stocks in their portfolio.
- Check the track record of the AMC, if the AMC has 20 schemes, and only 2 of those are performing well, ignore that AMC. The 2 funds just got lucky.
- Don’t Buy Regular Plans. They give lesser returns (due to higher commissions) and makes your adviser rich, not you.
- Check the Price to Earnings Ratio of the Scheme. Lower P/E indicates the value investing style that has historically given better returns
- If you’re buying a Small cap fund, (those are highly risky though) you should invest in a fund with the lower AUM. Small cap funds with a larger AUM find it harder to invest in the companies they actually want, due to lack of liquidity in those companies.
- Avoid sector funds and Micro Cap funds. They might offer you slightly better returns in good times, but can cause havoc to your portfolio during bad times.
- Don’t hold more than 5 schemes, their underlying holdings overlap and you don’t get any diversification benefit.
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Don’t blindly trust your Agent.S ome Distributors simply recommend you the fund in which they earn the highest Commission.
# All the above mentioned details about a fund can be found on valueresearchonline.com ! That’s our favorite website to research good mutual fund schemes.
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