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Money might now flow to the midcaps and the smallcaps and the rally would broaden as the DIIs who are selling out in the large caps where FPIs are buying, could divert that money to midcaps and small caps where there is great value, says Nirmal Jain, Chairman & CEO, IIFL Finance NSE -6.49 %.

Investors confused about the direction of the stock market in the wake of its record-breaking run could consider balanced advantage funds, which invest in a mix of debt and equity. These funds allocate less to equities when market valuations appear expensive, and vice versa. The equity component varies from 30% to 70-80% depending on market conditions.

The popularity of SIPs or Systematic Investment Plans has gone up in the last few years. Amfi's Mutual Fund Sahi Hai campaign also helped popularising the concept of SIP and mutual funds. However, many investors, including those who have already made SIP investments in mutual funds, are often confused about SIPs.

As a luxury good, as an investment, a reserve asset, as a technology component – gold has various use and benefits from diverse sources of demand. After a spectacular rally this year, the precious metal has come down from the all-time high level of over Rs 54,000 to near Rs 50,000 level.

At a corpus size of close to Rs 8,500 crore as of October 2020, DSP Midcap fund (DMF) is the largest equity scheme for DSP Mutual. The scheme was launched in November 2006. Having gone through its fair share of ups and downs, DMF appears to have come to stage where it generally delivers stable returns. Its stock and sector preferences too appear to have become more consistent.

In the ongoing bull run, small caps have once again come in the limelight thanks to their ability to give double-digit returns in a matter of months or even days. Since April this year, the S&P BSE 250 SmallCap TRI has returned 55.6 per cent as of October 2020.

Over the last few years, one topic that I have written about several times is the superiority of fixed-income mutual funds over bank fixed deposits. It's not an exciting topic - the difference between the best and the worst equity investments available to Indian investors is an order of magnitude higher than the difference between the best and worst fixed-income options. So it's natural that savers don't have too much interest in the topic.

While investing, especially in mutual funds, most investors tends to look for the term 'the best' - the best time to invest, the best fund to invest etc.

With three experimental Covid-19 vaccines showing promising signs and the stock market hitting new record highs every other day, is the uncertainty behind us?

For digitisation as well as manufacturing, domestic initiative has come at the right time. There are quite a bit of opportunities in these two themes in the Indian midcap space, says Rana B Gupta, MD, Manulife Investment Management.

The key stock market indices have scaled new high on the positive news on the efficacy of coronavirus vaccines and transitioning of Biden presidency in the USA. Then there was a sell-off. Mutual fund investors, especially equity investors, get very nervous every time the market touches or hovers around a historical peak.

If having the right information at the appropriate time was enough to be successful in the stock market, many would have made millions by now. In the internet age, information is no more a luxury of a few. Still, a lay investor typically looks for a ‘solid’ tip (i.e., information) which can make him rich. He doesn’t realise that the past tips he got were also quite solid. Did he make his millions?

Foreign Portfolio Investors, after having pulled out Rs 61,973 crore from domestic equity markets in March, have been net buyers in all but one month this year. During the last quarter FPIs bought stocks worth Rs 46,000 crore and most of this buying was focused on, but not limited to, the banking sector. FPI holding in BSE 200 companies increased to $415 billion, up from $360 billion in the first quarter of this fiscal year, taking their share of ownership to 23.3%, according to brokerage and research firm Kotak Securities.

ET Intelligence Group: What’s the recipe for persistent success with SIPs? Fresh ideas and fresh faces, the concentration of portfolio, and intelligent diversification.

About eight decades ago, in the aftermath of the Great Depression, Benjamin Graham had advised the ordinary saver to prioritise value in the first seminal work on the science of investing. That meant being out of action when valuations appeared stretched. Top mutual funds seemed to have followed this prescription by the doyen of value investing — and reaped rich rewards through the current rally.