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At least during the last five years, a more deciding factor for the second half of December has been the nature of the lead-up to it. Positive run-ups during the lead period have had corrections or consolidations in the subsequent fortnight, while declines during the lead-up were followed by upswings especially so in the last five years.
"Factor investing is an investment approach that involves designing a portfolio of stocks, based on a certain factor or set of factors," says Chintan Haria, head investment strategy at ICICI Prudential AMC.
Mutual funds trying to outpace indices have been launching equal-weight index funds where each stock within the index is given equal weight. The recent outperformance has brought these funds into the spotlight.
Financial advisors typically recommend a blend of the Nifty 50 and Nifty Next 50 to make up your largecap portfolio. But there are ways to reduce Nifty Next 50 risk levels with alternatives.
The notion of cyclical sectors being poor in quality came about as the sector overinvested in the last capex cycle—early part of the last decade—at the cost of increasing debt.