Investors should avoid MFs with high expense ratios: All you need to know

In the debt category, returns are anyway low, so investors should avoid funds with high expense ratios

Sanjay Kumar Singh 

Avoid paying a high expense ratio in categories where the scope for generating high outperformance doesn't exist Former Sebi chief U K Sinha recently said that India's mutual fund industry is among the most expensive globally and there is scope for bringing down costs The bottomline, according to experts, is that a high expense ratio is justified only in products that manage to generate high alpha Actively-managed equity funds in India have traditionally generated high alpha But in recent years the alpha generated in the large-cap equity segment has ...

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First Published: Sun, August 12 2018. 18:41 IST