Which are India’s best mutual funds?

1 min read 19 Jul 2018, 08:52 AM IST Join us

Kayezad E Adajania , Lisa Pallavi Barbora

Mint30 is not too different from its earlier avatar in terms of fund selection and their periodic evaluation. There is now a sharper focus on fund selection post the standardization brought in by the regulator

Mint30, a trimmed-down version of the earlier Mint50, gives a concise list of 30 investment-worthy mutual funds. Photo: iStock

Monthly collections through systematic investment plans (SIPs) rose to a record high of ₹7,554 crore in June. On an annualized basis, that’s over ₹90,000 crore a year.

While retail investors have made the right choice by shifting to a safer way to invest, choosing the right mutual fund from a universe of more than 2,000 schemes is not easy. They include over 521 equity funds, 176 debt funds and 132 hybrid ones. An average investor will have to shortlist 5-8 schemes for their portfolio from among these.

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Mint, with clarity as the core value proposition, gives a helping hand by curating a list of 30 investment-worthy mutual funds. Till last year, Mint’s basket had 50 funds, but due to regulatory changes, we found it rational to shrink the list to 30.

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This year has seen the ₹23 trillion Indian mutual fund industry change the way it defines schemes after new rules were put out by regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India.

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Though the regulatory changes will make the schemes more ‘true-to-label’ than before, they have made it necessary to compress the list to a more efficient Mint30.

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Mint30 is not too different from its earlier avatar in terms of fund selection and their periodic evaluation. There is now a sharper focus on fund selection post the standardization brought in by the regulator.

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It is not an entirely new set of funds, rather a rationalized sub-set of the original Mint50 with some changes based on regular evaluation.

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How did we perform on our selection last year? Ninety percent of Mint50 2017 schemes outperformed the benchmarks assigned to their respective categories.

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