Investing your money in a tracker fund

The rising popularity of “passive” investing has seen savers put hundreds of billions of pounds into cheap tracker funds. These funds allow you to invest in the FTSE 100, for example, for less than 0.1pc a year. There is a general assumption that, relative to stock picking, tracking an index is a simple task that…

Mutual Fund Portfolio

Continuing from the previous post about the equity portfolio, this is the mutual funds portfolio. Over a period of time, Franklin Templeton Prima fund went from being a 5 star to a 2 star fund.  It has underperformed the peers in the market, but compared to the S&P CNX Nifty over a period of time,…