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All that you need to know about Mutual Funds this week

Updated : March 02, 2019 12:44 PM IST

Geojit Financial Services and SREI Infrastructure Finance have applied to launch their mutual fund business.

All that you need to know about Mutual Funds this week

S&P BSE Small Cap Index had its first week of significant outperformance in quite some time. The small-cap index was up 3.43% versus the Nifty index which closed up 0.67%. Two small-cap funds feature in the most bought Equity funds on our platform in the past 3 months.

The growing popularity of the mutual fund industry and its potential for future growth is attracting new domestic players to foray into this space. Geojit Financial Services and SREI Infrastructure Finance have applied to launch their mutual fund business.

As per reports, SEBI is expected to permit mutual funds to enter the commodities market in its upcoming board meeting slated for March 2019.

Index Returns:

Index	Weekly open	Weekly close	Change
BSE Sensex	35,871.48	36,063.81	0.54%
Nifty	10,791.65	10,863.50	0.67%
S&P BSE SmallCap	13,517.71	13,981.73	3.43%
S&P BSE MidCap	14,169.74	14,502.82	2.35%

Source- BSE/NSE

Top 5 best performing funds:

Name	Week	3Y	Category
RELIANCE POWER AND INFRA	3.5%	18.5%	Sectoral
ABSL INFRASTRUCTURE	3.4%	12.2%	Sectoral
ABSL SMALL CAP	3.2%	15.4%	Small Cap
SUNDARAM SMALL CAP	3.2%	10.8%	Small Cap
DSP NATURAL RESOURCES	2.8%	23.4%	Sectoral

Source – Kuvera.in

Top 5 worst performing funds:

Name	Week	3Y	Category
DSP WORLD GOLD	-4.0%	2.9%	Fund of Funds
KOTAK WORLD GOLD	-3.8%	1.8%	Fund of Funds
EDELWEISS ASEAN EQUITY	-1.4%	12.9%	Fund of Funds
KOTAK GOLD	-1.2%	4.2%	Fund of Funds
SUNDARAM FINSERV OPP	-0.9%	20.6%	Sectoral

Source – Kuvera.in

Top 5 best performing ELSS funds

Name	Week	3Y	Category
IDFC TAX ADVANTAGE	1.8%	18.0%	ELSS
HSBC TAX SAVER EQUITY	1.8%	15.3%	ELSS
IDBI EQUITY ADVANTAGE	1.8%	13.1%	ELSS
AXIS LONG TERM EQUITY	1.6%	16.5%	ELSS
ICICI PRU LONG TERM EQUITY	1.4%	15.1%	ELSS

Source – Kuvera.in

Top 5 worst performing ELSS funds:

Name	Week	3Y	Category
EDELWEISS LONG TERM EQUITY	0.2%	13.1%	ELSS
INVESCO INDIA TAX	0.2%	18.0%	ELSS
TATA INDIA TAX SAVING	0.2%	17.6%	ELSS
DHFL PRAMERICA LONG TERM EQUITY	0.3%	15.5%	ELSS
INDIABULLS TAX SAVING	0.3%	NA	ELSS

Source – Kuvera.in

What investors bought:

We saw the most inflows in these 5 schemes –

Name	1Y	3Y	Category
MIRAE ASSET INDIA EQUITY	2.3%	20.3%	Multi Cap
PARAG PARIKH LONG TERM EQUITY	3.2%	16.6%	Multi Cap
KOTAK STANDARD MULTICAP	0.9%	18.8%	Multi Cap
HDFC MID CAP OPP	-9.7%	17.5%	Mid Cap
HDFC SMALL CAP	-9.6%	23.9%	Small Cap

Source – Kuvera.in

What investors sold:

We saw the most outflows in these 5 schemes (excluding liquid and short-term schemes) –

Name	1Y	3Y	Category
ICICI PRU BLUECHIP	-0.6%	17.6%	Large Cap
ICICI PRU MULTICAP	0.0%	16.9%	Multi Cap
FRANKLIN INDIA EQUITY	-2.6%	14.0%	Multi Cap
ICICI PRU LARGE & MID CAP	-6.4%	14.5%	Large &Mid Cap
RELIANCE GOLD SAVING	7.9%	3.6%	Fund of Funds

Source – Kuvera.in

Movers and shakers at fund house:

1/ DSP Mutual Fund has reported that Pankaj Sharma will no longer be a co-Fund Manager of DSP Bond Fund, DSP Credit Risk Fund and all existing DSP Dual Advantage funds and Fixed Maturity Plans. Mr. Saurabh Bhatia will take on the additional responsibility of being the co-Fund Manager of DSP Credit Risk Fund.

2/ Reliance Mutual Fund has announced that Vikram Dhawan would cease to be Head - Commodities of the Mutual Fund.

Quote of the week:

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

: Leo Tolstoy

Manvendra Singh Rathore is an Analyst at Kuvera.in: India’s first completely free Direct Mutual Fund investing platform.

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