Thursday, October 16, 2008

Top 10 open-ended equity diversified funds giving negative returns

ING Dividend Yield, Sahara Growth and Birla Sun Life Asset Allocation Aggressive are among the top ten open-ended equity diversified funds in India. Despite performing well since their launch, these funds have, however, given negative returns during the last one year, with their NAVs being at 10.73, 51.70 and 18.74, respectively, as on October 14 this year, as per Value Research. 

Here is a look at the top 10 funds’ performance during the last one year:

ING Dividend Yield
Launched in October 2005, this open-ended equity diversified fund is at the top position in the Value Research’s Top 10 list and has given a negative return of 23.08 per cent during the last one year, while return since launch is 2.36 per cent. 


Return (%): 1 Year: (-) 23.08 

3 Months: (-) 10.06 

Category 1-Year Return (%): (-) 38.59 

NAV (as on Oct 14): 10.73 

Fund Manger: Manish Bhandari, since August 2007. 

Fund Objective: The scheme seeks to provide medium to long-term capital appreciation by investing predominantly in equity or equity-related instruments, which offer high dividend yield. 

Top 5 Holdings (as on Sept 30): GAIL, ONGC, Tata Power, Bajaj Auto and Castrol India.


Sahara Growth
Sahara Growth is at No 2 position in the Value Research’s Top 10 list. The fund has given (-) 23.47 per cent return during the last one year. However, its return since launch in August 2002 is in the positive territory at 30.46 per cent. 


Return (%): 1 Year: (-) 23.47

3 Months: (-) 4.57 

3 Years: 18.20

Category 1-Year Return (%): (-) 38.59 

NAV (as on Oct 14): 51.70 

Fund Manger: A N Sridhar, since February 2007. 

Fund Objective: The scheme aims to achieve capital appreciation by investing in equity and equity-related instruments. 

Top 5 Holdings (as on Sept 30): HUL, RIL, NTPC, Tata Communications and BPCL.


Birla Sun Life Asset Allocation Aggressive
 

This fund has given (-) 24.82 per cent return during the last one year, although its return since launch in January 2004 is 14.21 per cent.

Return (%): 1 Year: (-) 24.82

3 Months: (-) 9.14

3 Years: 10.01 

Category 1-Year Return (%): (-) 38.59

NAV (as on Oct 14): 18.74

Fund Mangers: Satyabrata Mohanty (since December 2005) and Ajay Garg (since February 2007).

Fund Objective: The scheme aims to provide income and capital appreciation along with diversification by investing in a basket of debt and equity mutual fund schemes of the AMC, in line with the stated asset allocation.

Top 5 Holdings (as on Sept 30): Birla Sun Life Advantage, Birla Midcap Fund, Birla Sun Life New Millennium, Birla Sun Life Dynamic Bond-R and Birla Sun Life Income Fund.


IDFC Imperial Equity
 

IDFC Imperial Equity Fund has given a negative return of 25.41 per cent return during the last one year and its return since launch in February 2006 is 7.59 per cent.

Return (%): 1 Year: (-) 25.41

3 Months: (-) 4.14

Category 1-Year Return (%): (-) 38.59

NAV (as on Oct 14): 12.14

Fund Manger: Kenneth Andrade, since January 2006.

Fund Objective: The scheme aims to invest in well-managed growth companies that are available at reasonable value.

Top 5 Holdings (as on Sept 30): RIL, ONGC, Bharti Airtel, Bajaj Auto and SBI.


Birla Sun Life Dividend Yield Plus
 

This fund has given 26.47 per cent return since its launch in February 2003. However, its one-year return is in the negative territory at (-) 25.59 per cent. 

Return (%): 1 Year: (-) 25.59

3 Months: (-) 6.81

3 Year: 3.92

Category 1-Year Return (%): (-) 38.59 NAV (as on Oct 14): 38.03

Fund Manger: Ankit Sancheti, since November 2007. 

Fund Objective: The scheme aims to generate returns by investing in high dividend-paying companies.

Top 5 Holdings (as on Sept 30): ONGC, Wyeth, Glaxosmithkline Pharma, GAIL and Tamil Nadu Newsprint & Papers.


Reliance Regular Savings Equity
 

Reliance Regular Savings Equity Fund has given a negative return of 26.62 per cent during the last one year. However, its return since launch in May 2005 is in the positive territory at 13.24 per cent.Return (%): 1 Year: (-) 26.62

3 Months: (-) 17.69

3 Year: 15.11 

Category 1-Year Return (%): (-) 38.59

NAV (as on Oct 14): 15.33 

Fund Mangers: Arpit Malaviya (since Oct 2007) and OmPrakash Kuckien (since Nov 2007)

Fund Objective: The scheme aims to generate consistent returns by actively investing in equity or equity related securities. 

Top 5 Holdings (as on Sept 30): RIL, Pratibha Industries, ICICI Bank, Divi’s Labs and HDFC Bank.


FT India Life Stage FoF 20s
 

This fund has given 16.53 per cent return since its launch in November 2003. However, its one-year return is in the negative territory at (-) 26.66 per cent. 

Return (%): 1 Year: (-) 26.66

3 Months: (-) 8.58

3 Year: 9.39

Category 1-Year Return (%): (-) 38.59 NAV (as on Oct 14): 21.10

Fund Mangers: Sukumar Rajah (since Nov 2003), Sachin Padwal-Desai (since Feb 2006) and Pallab Roy (since June 2008).

Top 5 Holdings (as on Sept 30): Franklin India Bluechip Fund (50.22%), Templeton India Income Builder, Templeton India Income Fund, Templeton India Growth Fund, and Franklin India Prima Fund.


HDFC Growth Fund
 

This fund has given a negative return of 26.89 per cent return during the last one year and its return since launch in August 2000 is 21.50 per cent.

Return (%): 1 Year: (-) 26.89

3 Months: (-) 7.55

3 Year: 17.84

Category 1-Year Return (%): (-) 38.59

NAV (as on Oct 14): 49.22

Fund Manger: Srinivas Rao Ravuri, since April 2006.

Fund Objective: The scheme is aimed at generating long-term capital appreciation by investing 80-100 per cent of its assets in equity and equity-related instruments. Exposure to debt and money market instruments is pegged at around 20% of the corpus.

Top 5 Holdings (as on Sept 30): RIL, Bharti Airtel, ICICI Bank, ONGC and SBI.


DSPML Top 100 Equity Reg
 

At No 10 position in the Value Research’s Top 10 list is DSPML Top 100 Equity Reg Fund. This fund has given an impressive return of 36.59 per cent since its launch in February 2003, although its one-year return is (-) 27.17 per cent.

Return (%): 1 Year: (-) 27.17

3 Months: (-) 7.69

3 Year: 20.21

Category 1-Year Return (%): (-) 38.59

NAV (as on Oct 14): 58.21

Fund Manger: Apoorva Shah, since April 2006

Fund Objective: The scheme seeks to generate capital appreciation from a portfolio that largely consists of equity and equity-related securities of the 100 largest corporates, by market capitalisation, listed on either BSE or NSE. Top 5 Holdings (as on Sept 30): HUL, ONGC, Bharti Airtel, Crompton Greaves and Infosys Tech.

(Source: Value Research)







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