Need advice with planning SIPs for next year

#1
I currently invest 6k in each of the following 6 schemes via SIP = Total 36K

DSP Blackrock Top 100 – Growth
HDFC Prudence Fund – Growth
ICICI Pru Focussed Bluechip Fund - Growth
SBI MSFU Pharma - Growth
SBI Emerging Businesses Fund – Growth
UTI Opportunities Fund - Growth

For the next FY, I am planning to replace 3 funds, so that it looks like

L&T Equity
Tata Balanced fund plan A
ICICI Pru Focussed Bluechip Fund - Growth
SBI MSFU Pharma - Growth
Can Robeco Emerging equities
UTI Opportunities Fund - Growth

Let me know your suggestions/feedback.
 

sabharwal_RK

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#3
Such A Mess of funds...

Choose one/two good largecap funds like HDFC top 200 and ICICI top 100 and Franklin india bluechip

Choose One/two good small cap funds like Franklin smaller company fund/ICICI discovery

Choose one/two goood sectoral fund like SBI Pharma/ICICI Banking/ UTI Transport and logistic

Choose one or teo balanced fund like HDFC balance and HDFC prudence

Stick with them till the end of this world increase your allocations in each by 10% every year and you will die a rich person...

Dont check you NAV daily may be redeem some units when markets looks like its gone crazy...but dont stop SIP
 

TracerBullet

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#4
You can look at articles in Fundsindia, morningstar.in, value research to get an idea. They have recommended funds list.
Value research also has a Mutual Fund year book for around 400 that can be used say once every 4-5 years

You wont get a ready made list of funds from me, The choice of funds depends on what you consider as risk and how much volatility you can handle and what your future outlook is. If you think next 5 years will be boom years, you might have aggresive proportion to midcaps and multicap funds instead of large caps. Also, look for consistent long term returns rather than flashy once in a while type funds ( like SBI emerging business ). And try to undesrtand what a funds does - but no need to judge the choice of stocks, just the kind of them. You can look at portfolio and analyst commentary in above sites.

Balanced funds are good i suppose as they manage Equity-Debt ratio themselves and are more tax-efficient but i prefer to choose equity and debt funds seperately. Reason is that i can sell debt/equity seperately and not have to sell them both and that i can choose the kind of funds ( duration / corporate bonds etc )

Avoid sector funds unless you are doing some tactical short term investment based on expertise (and not news and previous years returns). Sectors rotate and last years performers may begin to lag, leave all of this to funds managers.

I am not familiar with all of your funds, I only choose funds of 4-5 Fund Houses to make it easier to manage.
ICICI FB and UTI opp are good conservative options and so is HDFC prudence which has marvelous long term record.

But at the same time you have taken more risk using sector funds which i assume is just based on returns - this you should avoid.

Some Good funds that you can consider -

Diversified Funds
1) HDFC Equity - Very good long term long term record, bit more volatile now.
2) Franklin Prima Plus - Very good and consistent long term returns. Has more smaller companies but they are known to pick quality ones for long term.
3) BSL Frontline Equity - Almost Always beats benchmark
4) ICIC dynamic - conservative - Has more debt.

For midcaps, i use funds that have mandate to invest across market caps. So if tomorrow, midcaps get expensive they can diversify. Some options -
1) Reliance Equity Opp
2) IDFC Premier Equity
3) ICICI prudential Discovery - This one might lag other funds in a raging bull market. They also have a higher debt allocation

Midcap only
1) HDFC midcap
2) Franklin India Prima
3) Franklin India Smaller Companies - Can use this with strict SIP or invest in bulk if there is a Big crash. This has more small caps so its more volatile.
4) Can also consider Sundaram Select Midcap - This was star performer of previous bull run. Still doing good and might give outsized long term returns but can underperform in short term.

There are many many more good funds but we cant optimize these things, just get 3-4 good ones and monitor once in few years.
In general, if you are investing for next 10+ years, i would prefer good diversified funds rather than largecaps/sector funds.

Also, prefer SIP ( or STP from liquid ) and invest directly.
 

TracerBullet

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#5
4) Can also consider Sundaram Select Midcap - This was star performer of previous bull run. Still doing good and might give outsized long term returns but can underperform in short term.
I had not checked Select midcap recently. It seems its Fund manager Anoop Bhaskar has moved on to UTI - Consider UTI midcap instead. It has done pretty well.
Also, your funds are probably good too, i am just not familiar with some of them. Can Robeco Emerging equities has done very well but do note its small caps oriented similar to Franklin India Smaller Companies.

Just for your reference, i tried to decide on Fund list for next 5 years to realign my current one and these are the ones ill most likely use ( and review every 1-2 years).
They are perhaps more volatile than my current list but will hopefully do well in a High Growth Bull market. These are selected from my list of Fund Houses only.

HDFC Equity // Large Cap Oriented - Multicap
Franklin India High Growth Companies // MultiCap
Reliance Equity Opp // Multicap - Check

IDFC PE // Midcap - Falls less
HDFC Midcap // Midcap - Falls less
UTI Midcap // Aggressive Midcap - FM = Managed Sundaram SM before
 
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#6
Are you planning to sell the previous holdings and shift or just stop the SIPs and continue in the new ones?

In the second case it would be very difficult to track the MFs which IMO in necessary if not monthly then at least quarterly. Dont want to just invest and forget! just my take :)
 
#7
taureanbull: Not selling any previous holdings. I am planning to start new SIPs in Direct mode. Not yet decided on how to shift my previous holdings to Direct mode.
 

TracerBullet

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#8
taureanbull: Not selling any previous holdings. I am planning to start new SIPs in Direct mode. Not yet decided on how to shift my previous holdings to Direct mode.
If you have Direct access in mutual fund, you can simply switch from Regular to Direct. Funds that you buy through broker are also visible in Mutual Fund platform. No need to use broker.

But make sure exit load period has elapsed
 

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