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Mutual Fund Investment Mistake - 3: Bye, Bye Chasing Performance
Posted On Friday, Dec 30, 2011
You must have read and re-read the most common mutual fund disclaimer “past performance is no indication of future performance”. But despite these words of caution, the one practice that investors commonly follow is – (blindly) chasing performance.
A Mutual Fund has a great year or two, and new investors pile on the bandwagon, pumping in their savings. Then the fund’s performance slips and disappointed unit-holders leap off in chaos. Most of them lose some money. Some of them lose a lot.
While it may be tempting to buy the year’s “best mutual fund”, it may make better sense to stick with an investment plan that is well thought out and suits your investment goals.
Chasing performance is very dangerous, yet the unfortunate reality is performance sells: Take for example, emerging markets in the early 90’s, the financial boom in the mid 90’s, and technology in the late 90’s. Funds that invested in such sectors did phenomenally well during the boom but when the decline happened, it was the investor who saw his hard-earned savings crash to nothing.
A typical example of such buying occurs when a star rated fund house receives an award for its past performance, the entire herd rushes to buy the fund at its peak price. Jumping into an award winning Mutual fund and bailing out when the award goes to some other fund in the next year is not a sound investment decision. The bottom line is everything goes in cycles. What goes up has an equal chance of coming down and what is down has an equal chance of going up. Think about this when you have the urge to buy last years winners and sell last years losers, or when you think about jumping into a star-rated fund simply because of its stars.
The next time you decide to entrust your savings to a Mutual Fund only because of its accolades, ask yourself these questions:
How has the Mutual Fund performed over different market cycles?- Has the Mutual Fund delivered a consistent performance?
- Has a change in the Mutual Fund
- Does the Mutual Fund’s objectives suit your financial goals?
Answers to questions like these, should help you to stop focusing only on current performance and make you stand back and view your investments with a little more thought and a little less impulse.
Bye Performance Chasing, Hello Sensible Investing.
Risk Factors: Mutual Fund investments are subject to market risks, read all scheme related documents carefully.
Please visit – www.quantumamc.com/disclaimer to read scheme specific risk factors. Investors in the Scheme(s) are not being offered a guaranteed or assured rate of return and there can be no assurance that the scheme`s objective will be achieved and the NAV of the scheme(s) may go up or down depending upon the factors and forces affecting securities markets. Investment in mutual fund units involves investment risks such as trading volumes, settlement risk, liquidity risk, default risk including possible loss of capital. Past performance of the Sponsor / AMC/ Mutual Fund does not indicate the future performance of the Scheme(s). Statutory Details: Quantum Mutual Fund (the Fund) has been constituted as a Trust under the Indian Trusts Act, 1882. Sponsor: Quantum Advisors Private Limited. (liability of Sponsor limited to Rs. 1,00,000/-) Trustee: Quantum Trustee Company Private Limited. Investment Manager: Quantum Asset Management Company Private Limited (AMC). The Sponsor, Trustee and Investment Manager are incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956.
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