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> PPFAS Flexi Cap & Nifty 50 are both back in most bought list. The week prior it was out.
> Mid & Small Cap funds continue to fetch inflows.
> Seems like people are moving money from arbitrage to equity funds.
This is from mutual fund platform Kuvera's last week platform
Currently cyber attacks by a nation state on another is considered low to medium threat.
In an AI world, I believe that threat level will increase drastically.
Initial phases of war will be AI agents attacking each other. Country A's agents will try to bring down country B's
ICICI Pru Mutual Fund's Equity Valuation Index is again in the "Invest in Equities" zone.
Its only the 2nd time since Covid that this index has flashed the green signal.
In the world of quantum & AI - importance of physical gold in personal custody increases.
With AI its much easier to crack online security, get into databases, mess with websites etc.
At the end of the day - savings bank account, FD, stocks are all 0s & 1s in some database.
US electronics retail chain Best Buy is transitioning from its own GCC in India to handing it over completely to TCS.
One of the first such movement away from GCC to an Indian IT company.
TCS will now completely handle whatever Best Buyโs own GCC was delivering.
IT company Accenture Q4 revenue beats estimates.
Revenue up 6.3% YoY. Q4 bookings at $22.2 billion, up 4%. Full-year bookings at $84.5 billion.
EPS up 8%. Company executed 141 quarterly client bookings of $100 million or more, a record high.
Accenture expects revenue to
3 year monthly SIP return of Multi Asset Mutual Funds. (Data till 25th Sept)
Fund Score is calculated by assigning
1. 10 points for best XIRR, 9 points for 2nd best & so on.
2. 10 points for least Std Dev & so on.
3. Then both 1 & 2 points are summed up to get to Fund Score.
In last 5 years, many of SBI Mutual Funds schemes have really performed poorly compared to other funds of same category.
SBI Mutual Fund is one of the largest AMCs as per AUM.
Seems like their style isn't working out in current phase of the market.
5 year monthly SIP return of Midcap Mutual Funds. (Data till 25th Sept)
Fund Score's goal is to kinda map out top 10 AUM funds on a comparative basis which has given the highest return with least volatility.
My feeling is 'burnout' in the IT or tech industry will be growing.
Top management folks wants much faster code delivery now as they're spending money on AI accounts for each developers.
Also cutting teams as "you can take help from AI & get it done".
So one person will have
5 year monthly SIP return of Smallcap Mutual Funds. (Data till 25th Sept)
Fund Score is calculated by assigning
1. 10 points for best XIRR, 9 points for 2nd best & so on.
2. 10 points for least Std Dev & so on.
3. Then both 1 & 2 points are summed up to get to Fund Score.
Fund
More than half of the world's top AI talent is being produced by China.
Looks like China has massively started upskilling people on AI related education paths.
> PPFAS Flexi Cap & Nifty 50 Fund out of most bought list again.
> Mid & Smallcap funds received massive inflows.
> For the first time, a PPFAS equity scheme has been heavily sold.
This is from mutual fund platform Kuvera's last week platform data.
FDI into India increased 6.4% YoY to hit $19.8 billion in Q1.
Top investors into India:
๐ฏ๐ต Japan $5.71 billion
๐ธ๐ฌ Singapore $5.22 billion
๐ฒ๐บ Mauritius $2.31 billion
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands $1.38 billion
๐บ๐ธ USA $1.34 billion
๐ฆ๐ช UAE $868 million
Top 5 sectors that received investment:
Bloomberg mapped the global economy (GDP growth)
โข In last 10 years, India was the 2nd fastest growing nation.
โข In coming 10 years, India will be the fastest growing nation, while further increasing itโs GDP growth.
โข Chinaโs growth rate to be almost cut in half in this
Some international mutual funds have reopened for new investments, but don't rush it out of FOMO.
Funds that are open are all actively managed funds. And its very clear from years of data that its incredibly difficult for international active funds to outperform the index.
Even
OECDโs September forecast states that India will be the fasting growing economy among all major countries.
Also it raised its forecast the most for India.
Oil prices in India may be hiked soon. Seems likely.
โข Houthis striking Saudi oil.
โข Ukraine striking Russian oil
โข East-West pipeline remains impaired forcing more dependency on Hormuz, while Iran striking Hormuz.
โข Armed groups trying to shut valves on Libyaโs Sharara