In our article “How safe are your investments with MFs in India?”, we explored how returns from majority of MFs don’t beat Index and also realized that when pitched against TRI format, success percentage of MFs further drops. For this article, we also studied how the heads rolled after being top performer based on one…
According to a study in US in 2014, 86% of Mutual Funds could not beat the market and that too before they charged their commissions. In the period 2004-2014, 82% of the fund managers in US failed to beat the market and those that managed to beat did so out of sheer luck. The study…
Background: The role of regulators in any part of the world should be to pave way so that fair play is assured for all market participants. It is completely undesirable for the regulator to create situations where their selected stocks are chased or their prices move in one direction irrespective of factors that influence such…
There are many ways to make money from the stock market, let’s talk primarily about two sections though. Since stocks are subject to recurrent and wide fluctuations in their prices, any individual looking to gain from these swings can do so in two ways. One, by timing the price. What that entails is the ability…
COVID-19 as a crisis looks increasingly like it is going to have a significant impact on earnings for the foreseeable future. Once the crisis passes, so will the attractive investment opportunities it created with it. The minimum rate of return on investments will always go to the passive investor who yearns for both safety and…