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Most large cap funds have similar holdings. How to pick the best ones?

Dhirendra Kumar asks not to look at holdings to pick funds. Find out what does he suggest instead

Answer transcript: Don't look at holdings. Look at long term returns and how volatile they have been and this should be your primary guidance. If you look at the large-cap universe, you will come across 70-80 funds. 20-30 of these will not even able to match the return of the index. In the middle, there are index funds and then there are the long-term winners. These funds are able to beat the benchmark by 8-9% annually over a 5-10 year period. At any point, their portfolio looks alike.

This article was originally published on April 05, 2017.


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