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Smallcap mutual funds made strides in FY2024, reducing the AUM gap with largecap peers through notable growth. The data analysis highlighted the impressive performance of smallcap schemes in managing assets under management effectively.

All of a sudden yesterday, one stock which led the turnaround of the market was HDFC bank. There were two announcements, first regarding business and second regarding the shareholding changes in the last one quarter in which the stake of FII had come down. In normal cases a decline in FII holding is seen as negative but the reaction of the street was positive in this case. The reason was technical in nature because of buying which could emerge due to MSCI adjustment. But the fact is that every s...

Even when the market was correcting in the month of March one set of stocks which outperformed the market was stocks whose fortunes are linked to how much you sweat due to higher summer temperatures. The reason, first forecast by the IMD about summers was that it would see higher than normal temperatures. Now because sales of air conditioners, air coolers and directly linked to what is the average length of the summer season and secondly what average temperature during those months, the street h...

Large & midcap schemes are benchmarked against NIFTY LargeMidcap 250 - TRI and S&P BSE 250 LargeMidCap Index - TRI. These benchmarks gave 4.13% and 4.58%, respectively, during the quarter.

The “risk on trade” which had started with the US Fed indicating a pause in the interest rate cycle last year, got halted in the Indian market for the first three months of 2024. If one goes on by the market breadth, there are indications that it might be getting started once again. Keep an eye on liquidity and the market breadth in the next few sessions as that will determine what happens to mid-cap stocks in the medium term. If the market breadth stays positive then it is very like...

One sector which has been firing on all cylinders has been the auto sector, it started with stocks like Ashok leyland, Tata motors, Eicher motors.doing extremely well in the first phase of auto sector bull run.Then it was companies from the tyre sector which saw a sharp upward trend and then a select few auto ancillary stocks. It was in the third phase where 4 wheeler and 2 wheeler companies joined the bull run. One of the reasons why there has been a difference between different segments joinin...

In the last four years of bull run, among the PSU space, defence was the first sector to see a re-rating, infact it was the sector which led back the resurgence of the PSU space which was then followed by railways and then NBFCs which are lending to particular sectors. Now the fact that the defence stocks have run up sharply and sitting with gains, questions are bound to come on whether they have priced all the positives or not. A part of the answers lies in looking at how the stock behaved in r...

Somehow word volatility got associated with bearish trend, while it might appear strange to some, the fact is that even volatility has a bias and that can be toward bulls also. In the last few sessions that bias has changed toward bulls. Broader market indices have been able to recover sharply from their lows when they have opened down lower. At this point of time when sectors like banks are leading it, there is a high probability that we might see more of it in the coming weeks. The only caveat...

Dividend yield mutual funds, with specific stock investments and risk profiles, offer regular income to low-risk investors. Sebi guidelines mandate significant portfolio allocation to dividend-yielding stocks, ensuring stability in returns over varied periods.

Knowing what is risky and managing those risks are two different things. Knowing risk is easy, but managing the risk is more complicated than it appears. If one has not learnt this lesson in the month of March, then probably he or she needs to seriously think about whether they should invest in stocks or not. At the start of March it was well known that valuations are high so it is risky to invest in small caps. But when the fall happened, how many were able to manage the risk of investing in sm...