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Pick the right stock, bet on focused funds if you have a high-risk appetite

The primary risk in these funds is that if the fund manager gets a few stock picks wrong, the fund's performance could take a significant hit

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Investment tips | Investments in India | stocks to watch out

Sanjay Kumar Singh  |  New Delhi 

Mutual Fund investments

With several categories of active funds underperforming their benchmarks in recent years, fund managers have a few options to improve their performance: Take more concentrated bets, curtail expense ratio, and reduce churn in their portfolios. Focused funds, by their mandate, allow fund managers to follow the first of these strategies.

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First Published: Thu, November 21 2019. 18:46 IST

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