You may also pick one
Small cap fund like Franklin Smaller cos fund.
You can surely consider investing in
Small cap fund like Franklin smaller cos fund for long - term goals.
As you are investing for long - term (15 + years), you may add one
Small cap fund like Franklin Smaller cos fund or DSP micro cap fund to your portfolio instead of the Reliance fund.
If your investment horizon is 3 years, suggest you not to invest in
Small cap fund like DSP micro cap.
Dear Pranav, Since your investment horizon is long - term, you may replace one large cap fund (either SBI bluechip / Kotak focus fund) with
a Small cap fund like Franklin Smaller companies fund.
Dear Chander, Considering your age profile and time - horizon, not advisable to invest in
Small cap fund like DSP micro.
Not exact matches
Penderfund's Chief Investment Officer and manager of its
Small Cap Opportunities
Fund likes buying at a discount
Small -
caps aren't just shunned by the media and analysts, but also by the big investors
like mutual
funds.
Unfortunately, there aren't enough names with that large of a market
cap and when two of them are bigger than the rest of the sector combined,
funds are forced to add
smaller companies to the mix, along with the challenges they can bring
like higher volatility, wider spreads and more uncertainty over earnings.
Like Sonkin, other
fund managers are increasingly turning to
small -
cap companies with no sell - side coverage, hoping an industry - wide pullback in analyst research will allow them to buy into more «unknown» companies before they get on other investors» radar.
Again, I understand if a large -
cap fund manager that is restricted by a fiduciary mandate can not buy any PM mining stocks, but
small -
cap portfolio managers that also avoided PM mining stocks
like they were the plague always provided excuses that were pure rubbish.
Just
like the
small -
cap value
fund, the mid-
cap value index
fund looks to achieve the same balance, expect with larger companies.
The Vanguard
small -
cap value index
fund looks to take an index -
like approach and invest in
small -
cap stocks that appear to be undervalued at current levels.
I personally
like this
funds equal weight strategy, as I think that its quite smart to place a lot of
small bets in the
small cap biotech space and let the winners grow.
Past performance may be a good start in judging a mutual
funds performance but things
like small -, medium - and large -
cap funds and their objectives, growth and the value or blend of the
funds should be studied.
I have recently published an article on Best Equity Mutual
Funds to invest in 2016 and have been receiving lot of queries on Mutual Fund categories topic like; What exactly are Large cap or Mid cap or Small Cap f
Funds to invest in 2016 and have been receiving lot of queries on Mutual
Fund categories topic
like; What exactly are Large
cap or Mid cap or Small Cap fun
cap or Mid
cap or Small Cap fun
cap or
Small Cap fun
Cap fundsfunds?
The effect of
small caps on an index
fund would be
like a rounding error.
You may consider to exit from one
fund and add one Mid
cap fund like UTI midcap / Franklin
smaller co's
fund for long - term.
Therefore it can make sense to follow a «core and explore» approach where you cover off at least some of your core needs (
like U.S. large -
cap stocks) with ETFs, then go for active mutual
funds for some of the more specialized asset categories (
like small -
cap stocks).
Like PC Jeweller — a jewelry retailer headquartered in India that is held in our Global
Small Cap Fund.
So when it comes to helping people with their finances, I see my role as being more
like that of a General Manager for a hockey team — that is, to bring together the best people and to build the best portfolio management team possible, no matter if it's finding the best index
fund, dividend
fund or
small cap fund manager out there for my clients.
Dear Amoghm, If tax saving is not one of your investment objectives then you may consider investing in regular equity oriented
funds,
like Diversified equity
fund, balanced equity oriented
fund or mid /
small cap funds.
More to the point,
funds like Vanguard FTSE All - World ex-US
Small Cap Index (VFSVX) are distinctly poor performers, trailing 90 % of their peers over the past three - and five - year periods.
Let us assume your goal was to buy a Skoda Rapid in 5 years and you have started investing in a large -
cap fund for last 2 years, since you got a twin baby you feel Skoda would be
small and would
like to go for an Innova in next 4 years.
Already performing well this year thanks to leading stocks
like PGT Innovations (PGTI), Kinsale Capital Group (KNSL), MCBC Holdings (MCFT) and Medifast (MED)-- which are up 10 % for PGT to 70 % for Medifast —
small -
cap growth $ 121.8 million AMG Managers Cadence Emerging Companies
Fund's (MECIX) managers see the market environment tilting more their way — more in favor of
small -
cap stocks.
John Authers concludes «buying into
funds that keep costs low by following disciplined quantitative strategies to invest in value, high dividend, or
small -
cap stocks, or to harness the momentum effect, looks
like a great idea».
Lallos also
likes the Invesco
Small Cap Growth
Fund (GTSAX), which Morningstar rates silver.
In addition, I saw some of the
funds like: UTI transportation & Logistics
Fund (G) Reliance
Small Cap Fund (G) Franklin Build India
Fund (G) Franklin India
Smaller Cos
Fund (G) Which have actually yielded good returns.
Should I replace Multi
Cap with with a Mid &
Small Cap like Franklin India High Growth Companies
Fund?
So ideally i would
like to have a balance of pure equity based
funds (large
cap, diversified,
small cap), balanced
funds, debt
funds.
Dear Sovit, You may consider investing in One equity diversified
fund like Franklin Prima plus and in one Mid-
cap or
small cap fund.
Thanks for advice i will take a look at balanced
funds also i would
like to know there is no change required for the existing portfolio for the given time frame as i find that instead of franklin
small cap fund others in the same group are performing better please advice on that issue
By «state - of - the - art vehicles», I mean top Latin America mutual
funds like Fidelity Latin America (FLATX), T. Rowe Price Latin America (PRLAX) and BlackRock Latin America (MDLTX), the largest Latin America ETF iShares S&P Latin America 40 Index (ILF), and the top Brazil ETF's iShares MSCI Brazil Index (EWZ) and Market Vectors Brazil
Small -
Cap ETF (BRF).
I was never convinced that allocating to U.S. size differences (
like a
small cap fund) or quality differences (
like a value
fund) would raise my returns or moderate steep declines much, and these new correlations still support this position.
If the portfolio overlap is on higher side, you may drop of couple of them and consider investing in a Mid-
cap fund like UTI mid-
cap or HDFC mid
cap opp
fund or Franklin
smaller cos
fund.
Those who favor active investing have pointed to the
small cap premium as a justification for their activity, and during the periods of history when
small cap companies outperformed the market, it did make them look
like heroes but it quickly gave rise to a counterforce, where performance measurement services (
like Morningstar) started incorporating portfolio tilts, comparing
small cap funds against
small cap indices.
Hello Sreekanth, Many thanks for getting back to me I am thinking about Mid /
Small cap mutual
funds like UTI equity mid
cap, Franklin build India, DSP BR micro
cap fund, SBI blue chip
fund as they give maximum returns in 3 yrs what do you think?
Is it better to invest in 2
funds for Large
Cap / Long term (like my existing plan) or have the entire investment in 1fund under Large Cap and 1 fund under Small c
Cap / Long term (
like my existing plan) or have the entire investment in 1
fund under Large
Cap and 1 fund under Small c
Cap and 1
fund under
Small capcap?
I
like to follow what is happening at the
fund family to gain better insight into
small cap value investing.
If you have already constructed a good MF portfolio with core
funds (
like a large
cap, diversified equity
fund, mid /
small cap fund), you may consider sector oriented
funds to add to your portfolio.
Hi Sreekanth, In your previous comments you said that investing in 3 - 4
funds is enough (
like one large
cap, one diversified equity
fund, one balanced
fund and one mid or
small cap).
Dear Anup, You may consider Franklin
Smaller Companies
fund instead of HDFC
Small cap fund, also consider investing in diversified equity
fund like ICICI Pru value discovery
fund.
For my retirement (20 - 25 yr): EPF (6000 / m, deduction at the source), PPF (2000 / m), Axis Long Term Equity (3000 / m; EPF+PPF+SSY+ELSS — 1.5 lakh for tax savings), Franklin India Prima Plus (4000 / m), Franklin India
Smaller co (3000 / m) and Tata balanced
Fund (4000 / m)(I am little confused here to choose a large cap like Birla Sunlife Frontline Eq Fund which will be comparatively low risk or a balanced f
Fund (4000 / m)(I am little confused here to choose a large
cap like Birla Sunlife Frontline Eq
Fund which will be comparatively low risk or a balanced f
Fund which will be comparatively low risk or a balanced
fundfund)
When I
like a foreign market because it seems cheap (blood running in the streets), I sometimes buy a
small cap ETF or closed - end
fund rather than the cheaper large
cap version.
2 — If you would
like to invest in a
small cap fund then may be you can consider Franklin
Smaller cos
fund.
Instead of a
small cap fund, you may consider an equity oriented balanced
fund like HDFC balanced
fund (for a 5 year time - frame).
At the same time, we would suggest to have more at least 3 - 4 equity
funds across different categories
like Multi-
cap and Mid &
Small cap space, th take advantage of diversification and do not restrict all your investments to only one
fund.
I am beginning to hate the idea of market
cap weighting, especially in a
fund with a
smaller number of holdings
like REZ.
And there are some tricky categories where active managers have an edge,
like international
small -
cap funds and emerging market bond
funds.
One would expect RBC's new
fund to behave more
like an S&P 500
fund, with no
small -
cap exposure.