Special Report

When smart investors acted dumb

When stock prices fall, many experts warn investors to stay on the sidelines. The advice may serve traders well, but it can harm investors

Mutual Fund InsightAs the markets languished over the last year or so, smart investors recognised the global warning signs and moved away from equity, while the not-so-smart (whom the smart ones called dumb) investors stayed invested and even continued their SIPs. And guess what, the supposedly dumb investors were right! They avoided the basic mistakes that supposedly smart investors make. In the cover story of the April 2016 issue of Mutual Fund Insight, read How Not to Fail in the Current Market: Top three mistakes that you must avoid.

Small-cap funds are not for the faint-hearted, and yet they can yield great returns if handled right. Our Category Watch for the month is on these funds, in which we analyse everything that investors should understand. In the accompanying Fund Analyst's Choice read all about the five small-cap funds that our analysts have selected for you.

"India's potential is huge", says Didier Borowski, Head of Strategy and Economic Research, Amundi Asset Management. In our interview of the month, he explains how the next phase of growth will come from emerging markets and India will be an outlier among emerging-market economies. In getting personal, read about Sunil Singhania, Chief Investment Officer - Equity, Reliance Mutual Fund, on how he manages the professional and the personal.

In our monthly advice feature, The Plan, our investment experts examine an actual investor's portfolio in and create an action plan to align it to his life goals. This month, we have an unusual young man who is 34 and wants to retire in ten years. We think what he needs is a more realistic goal and right kind of investments. In Buy Sell Hold, our team answers investment queries from our readers.

In Fund Radar, read about the EPF tax saga and other budget happenings, as well as an analysis of funds' portfolios. In Portfolio Moves, examine our detailed x-ray of SBI Small & Midcap Fund and how it has made the best of a problematic year. We also have our other regular features like Fund Diary, regular columns from Aarati Krishnan and Vivek Kaul, as well as our comprehensive Scorecard of Mutual Fund data.

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