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Investors like small caps and large caps, but they're overlooking mid-cap stocks as a key piece of portfolios.

Small-caps have historically recorded some of their best performance relative to large-caps, coming out of a slowdown and leading into recovery.

After 5-7 years of underperformance, the fall in the profit pool share has been quite stark for sectors such as auto, pharma, cement and gas utilities. Thus, they present a better margin of safety, says Krishnan

For conservative investors who look for a small allocation to equity, investing in largecap funds is the way to go, while for aggressive investors, flexicap funds can be the choice.

An interesting market phenomenon is that small-caps tend to outperform large-caps over the long-term.

Deepak Shenoy says he has sufficient resources to buy a home, is financially comfortable now.Shenoy says the debt markets are in a state of flux, so it is not wise to bet on any particular duration segment

Despite concerns over underperformance in near term, a management rejig at Tech Mahindra gave way for some positive views from analysts.

Brokerage selected five midcap stocks and four smallcap stocks as its top picks. Some of these are Dalmia Bharat, Federal Bank, PNC Infratech, Praj Industries, and Ashok Leyland among others.

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