Small Cap Mutual Funds News

Should you invest in flexi cap or should you invest in large, mid and small caps separately? Well, a flexi cap fund scores over this 'cutting up' strategy on two counts: The fund manager rebalances inside the fund. You or your distributor or advisor don't have to take this call. Also, there is no tax on 'internal' rebalancing. However, many distributors argue that flexi caps are closet large caps and hence, no good. In this video, we look at the data to figure out! Watch

Large caps by nature are the least volatile and small caps are the most volatile. Naturally one would expect most returns from small-cap stocks because of the higher risks in them.

This mutual fund has given annual return of 28% since its inception whereas the category return in this period is 17%

Some small-cap funds have reopened their doors to take in fresh money, on the back of fall in small- and mid-cap stocks so far this year

L&T Emerging Businesses Fund and DSP Small Cap Fund have allowed fresh mutual fund investments, taking advantage of a continued correction in small- and mid-cap stocks this year

'Mint' uses qualitative and quantitative parameters to select 30 schemes out of more than 2,000 schemes

Whether you look at a stock basket or a mutual fund basket, the basic tenet of investing allocationremains unchanged. Don't allocate to only one segment, even if you have the horizon