Although the DRS is now offered upon other asset classes
like small cap equity, foreign developed, and emerging markets, the flagship offering has always utilized U.S. large cap ETFs for its equity exposure.
Not exact matches
Another third should be in international stocks (mature foreign markets
like Japan and Europe), with the remaining third of your
equity portion in emerging markets and what he calls global
small caps.
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 fun
cap or Mid
cap or Small Cap fun
cap or
Small Cap fun
Cap funds?
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.
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.
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?
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 fund)
Like value stocks,
small -
cap stocks are an essential part of a well - diversified
equity portfolio.
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.
Small cap equities may be a better «pure play» on the economies where shares are traded, and as such funds
like SCHC can be nice complements to other EFA products.
For long term goals
like Retirement, you may consider investing in one Diversified
equity fund and one
Small cap fund.