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Mutual Funds outperform equity markets in April May 7, 2010
The FEFI April update
Author : iFAST Research Team

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April: subdued month for the markets

BSE SENSEX and NIFTY closed April with modest gains of 0.18% and 0.55% respectively. However, the midcap indices from both BSE and NSE gave handsome returns. The BSE Midcap and CNX Midcap index have gained 5.56% and 4.42% respectively. Greece continues to be the main cause of volatility in the global and Indian markets. However, the main reason for the market to end in the positive has been the positive year-end numbers of the companies.

FEFI PERFORMANCE UPDATE

FEFI began April at 1868 points but closed the month with a gain of 48 points (or 4.66%) to close at 1916 points. FEFI was on the rise till the middle of the month but within a span of 3 days, the index dropped by 41 points to 1875 before turning around to touch the month high of 1920 points on 27 April. Considering the performance of the indices, we think that the fund managers have done a good job in managing the equity funds in April.

Chart 1: FEFI Performance for 2010

Table 1: FEFI Index levels

FEFI

Year-to-date (%)

Month-to-date (%)
31 December 2009 1831.56 - -
31 January 2010 1763.09 - -3.7%
28 February 2010 1745.48 -4.7% -1.0%
31 March 2010 1868.57 2.02% 7.05%
30 April 2010 1916.83 2.58% 4.66%

Table 2: Top 5 Equity funds on our platform in April

  Sector YTD Returns MTD Returns
RELIANCE BANKING FUND- GROWTH Banking 14.5% 8.9%
RELIANCE MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT FUND GROWTH PLAN- GROWTH Speciality 5.9% 8.1%
BSL COMMODITY EQUITIES FUND GLOBAL PRECIOUS METALS- GROWTH Overseas 0.9% 8.0%
UTI MASTER VALUE FUND- GROWTH Contra / Value 8.4% 7.4%
EMERGING BUSINESS FUND- GROWTH Speciality 13.3% 6.9%

Mostly sectoral and specialty funds have done well in April. The Reliance Banking fund is our recommended fund for the Banking sector. The UTI Master Value fund is one of the good contra funds and has been in the top 5 equity funds list twice since we started covering FEFI in Nov 2009. The BSL Commodity fund – Global Precious Metals (GPM) plan has done well primarily due to more money chasing safer investments, on account of uncertainty in Europe. The GPM fund has done well despite the rupee appreciating 1.32% in April with respect to the US Dollar

 

 Table 3: Bottom 5 Equity funds on our platform in April

  Sector YTD Returns MTD Returns
BSL COMMODITIES EQUITIES FUND GLOBAL MULTI COMMODITY PLAN- GROWTH Overseas 14.5% 8.9%
RELIANCE NATURAL RESOURCES FUND- GROWTH Speciality 5.9% 8.1%
MIRAE ASSET GLOBAL COMMODITY STOCKS FUND- GROWTH Overseas 0.9% 8.0%
JM TELECOM SECTOR FUND- GROWTH Speciality 8.4% 7.4%
BSL COMMODITY EQUITIES FUND GLOBAL AGRI PLAN- GROWTH Overseas 13.3% 6.9%

Mostly funds that invest outside India have been the bottom performers in April. The continuing uncertainty of European countries (mainly of Greece), and the rupee appreciating by 1.32% have contributed to global funds underperforming in April.


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