Suitability

This is a fund that invests mainly in companies which have a high dividend yield, which is basically a financial ratio that indicates how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.

We believe that investors should avoid funds that have a narrowly defined investment mandate such as this one. Instead, they should invest in flexi-cap funds which provide complete freedom to the fund management team to invest in companies from which it expects maximum gains.

But if you do invest, you must do so only through the SIP route. Click here to read a primer on SIP investing.

Warning: Do not invest in this, or any other dividend yield fund, if you need to redeem your investment in less than five years.

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