Positioned between mutual funds and PMS, the SIF category is being pitched to India’s growing affluent investor base. The Rs 10 lakh minimum is both its filter and its challenge. When SEBI cleared the Specialised Investment Fund framework in 2025, the industry response was cautious. Fund houses welcomed the intent — a regulated, transparent middle … Read more
With RBI holding the repo rate steady, geopolitics injecting inflation risk, and equity volatility unsettling portfolios, fixed income is being reassessed segment by segment. Debt mutual funds spent much of the last three years being described by advisors as the boring cousin of the equity family. In FY27’s opening weeks, the description is beginning to … Read more
Gold ETFs delivered strong double-digit returns while equity funds struggled through a volatile FY26. The comparison is real — but the takeaway is not what most investors think. For most of the past decade, the standard advice in Indian personal finance conversations has been to keep gold as a modest, boring diversifier and let equity … Read more
Passive AUM has grown at nearly twice the pace of active equity funds over the last three years. Under SEBI’s new expense regime, the gap could widen further. A structural shift is underway in Indian mutual funds. Large-cap active managers have found it increasingly difficult to beat the benchmark, and retail investors are voting with … Read more