
BUSINESS
Will Bharat Bond ETF bring depth to the corporate debt market?
Given the lack of history relating to corporate bond ETFs in India, we need to see evidence of how this fund will work

BUSINESS
Why do gold mutual fund schemes underperform gold ETFs?
A gold mutual fund’s NAV is derived from the market price of the underlying asset -- the Gold ETF

MARKETS
Is investment in high-yielding state-backed bonds worth the risks?
Instead of relying blindly on the security structure, it pays to closely scrutinise the borrower

BUSINESS
5 lessons to shield yourselves from future debt fund mishaps
Investors, financial advisors and fund houses have much to learn from the debt fund fiasco of the past year

BUSINESS
SEBI asks MF trustees to stand up for investors’ interests
Market regulator does not want them to be ‘passive participants’

BUSINESS
Fundsgate | HDFC AMC’s bailout conundrum: MF investors gain, shareholders bear the brunt
If unitholders enjoy the gains, shouldn’t they bear the losses as well?

MUTUAL-FUNDS
Funds Gate | Fund houses avoid side-pocketing to protect their pockets ahead of unitholders’
Mutual funds had an opportunity to demonstrate that they put their unitholders interests ahead of theirs. Sadly, barring an exception they did not walk the talk

MUTUAL-FUNDS
Time to move your large-cap portfolio to passive funds
Of 29 large-cap schemes, only three outperformed their respective benchmark indices

BUSINESS
Policy | In whose best interests did mutual funds act - investor or borrower?
Withholding payment pending recovery of money in a closed-end, fixed tenured product such as FMP violates the spirit of the product itself.

BUSINESS
Opinion | The risk in Fixed Maturity Plans is now out in the open
Fund houses are caught in a trap of their own making

BUSINESS
Franklin Templeton India Crisis: Opinion | Debt funds have gone too far
Mutual funds have been chasing risk even in funds meant for low-risk conservative investors.