All you need to know about mutual funds last week

1. Invest in a liquid fund and then STP into Nifty over one year

2. Invest in Nifty

 

Lumpsum investing has outperformed STP even when the market is reaching new highs. Lumpsum investments are likely to work out better 60 percent of times and with higher expected returns. The intuition here is simple.

The STP or lumpsum debate eventually is one of market timing. Doing an STP implicitly assumes that you can time a market high — it is the only scenario that justifies doing an STP over a lumpsum. If you do not think you can time market highs, then don’t STP.

How is STP a claim of market timing ability? Well, think about it. STP will work only when the average net asset value (NAV) over the next 12 months is lower than today’s NAV so that you can accumulate more units than you would by buying all of it today. So an STP investor is making a complex claim that NAV will be on average lower over the next 12 months while I am accumulating units and then it will go up after.

Lumpsum, on the other hand, makes no market timing assumptions — it is the simpler option. The international evidence also backs this up. For S&P 500 and Nasdaq, where we ran the same analysis, lumpsum outperforms STP three out of five times when either index is making a new high.

Indian stock market entered Vikram Samvat 2076 on a positive note, with the barometer index, the S&P BSE Sensex, rising 0.49 percent and Nifty 50 rising 0.38 percent during the muhurat trading, when the BSE and NSE conducted a special one-hour trading session on October 27 to mark the beginning of the new year in the Hindu calendar. Kuvera entered the new Samvat on a high note, as we were recognised by the BSE for highest fintech transactions in FY 2018-19.

Individual wealth in India grew by 9.62 percent to Rs 430 lakh crore in the fiscal year 2019, continuing the acceleration of wealth growth over the last few years, as per a report by Karvy Private Wealth. The India Wealth Report 2019 noted that a majority of this growth was achieved by 10.96 percent rise in wealth creation by financial assets as compared to physical assets which grew by 7.59 percent. Individual investors continued moving their wealth from physical assets to financial assets with the proportion of financial assets having inched up to 60.95 percent from 57.25 percent in the last five years, the report said.

Yes Bank Ltd has received a binding offer for an investment worth $1.2 billion as part of the bank’s fund-raising efforts. The investment is subject to regulatory, board and shareholders’ approvals. The bank added it continues to be in advanced discussions with other global and domestic investors.

1. LIC Mutual Fund has announced that Ritu Modi is being designated as fund manager – equity with effect from November 1, 2019. He will be taking on the fund management responsibility for few schemes.

2. Principal Mutual Fund has announced that Ravi Gopalakrishnan will cease to be the fund manager of principal tax savings fund, principal personal tax saver fund and principal equity savings fund. Sudhir Kedia will take on the managerial responsibility.

3. Sundaram Mutual Fund has announced change in scheme name of Sundaram Global Advantage Fund to Sundaram Global Brand Fund, with effect from November 21, 2019. The benchmark index will be updated to Dow Jones Industrial Average.