Credit Suisse Global Wealth reports that total household wealth of Indian's grew 9.7% (in INR terms) to $6 Trillion in the 12-month period to June 2018. The report estimates that India has $ 3.43 lakh millionaires (~ Rs 7 Crores) and expects the number of millionaires to grow at 8.9% annually. 91% of household assets in India are invested in property and other real assets (gold etc). Financial assets such as Mutual Funds, thus provide an easy way for the households to diversify their wealth.

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By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.

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We published a note this week on why you should consider index funds over actively managed funds. The choice of index funds available to Indian investors continues to increase. Soon 3 more index funds will be available - DSP BFSI Fund (NFO opens 22/Oct), Motilal Oswal Nasdaq 100 ETF (FOF) and DSP Nifty 50 Index Fund.

Equity Markets historically, have always been volatile in short-term – but can create serious wealth in the longer term. This falls into perspective when you look at the 18-year chart for NIFTY.

<<NIFTY Chart here>>

In a busy week for corporate activity, Reliance announced its plans to acquire a controlling stake in Hathway and Den Networks. Arcelor Mittal emerged as the winning bidder for Essar Steel, further boosting its status as a Steel Giant. Meanwhile, Tatas are in talks to acquire a controlling stake in debt-ridden Jet Airways.

Index Returns:

Source- BSE/NSE

Top 5 best performing funds:

Source – Kuvera.in

What investors bought:

We saw the most inflows in these 5 schemes –

Source – Kuvera.in

What investors sold:

We saw the most outflows in these 5 schemes (excluding liquid and short-term schemes) –

Source – Kuvera.in

Movers and shakers at fund house:

1/ ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund’s CEO Nimesh Shah has been elected as the Chairman of AMFI. Shah takes over from A Balasubramanian, CEO of Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund.

2/ Canara Robeco Mutual Fund has promoted Nimesh Chandan to the role of Head of Investment – Equity with immediate effect.

3/ Tata Mutual Fund has appointed Rahul Singh as the Chief Investment Officer – Equities, a role previously occupied by Gopal Agarwal.

4/ DSP Mutual Fund will launch DSP BFSI Next Index Fund on 22 October. This open-ended scheme will replicate S&P BSE Diversified Financials Revenue Growth Index.

5/ DSP Mutual Fund seeks approval from SEBI for launching DSP Nifty 50 Index Fund, to be managed by Gauri Sekaria.

Quote of the week:

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

Paulo Coelho

Manvendra Singh Rathore is an Analyst at Kuvera.in: India’s first completely free Direct Mutual Fund investing platform.

First Published:Oct 20, 2018 12:56 PM IST