Mutual Funds

Monitoring helps you determine exactly when a goal is on track. It provides you a feedback which incorporated allows you to make rectifications and therefore achieve your goals which you have laid out earlier. Feedback is important as it could tell you whether the path that you have chosen to achieve your goals is correct. It is a vindication of some sort. A reality check. It gives you an opportunity to correct your deviations and take you towards your goal.

Let us look at what have transpired in December 2020

1. In December 2020, markets have risen by 6.66% overall.

2. GST collection in December at all time high

A cognitive bias is a systematic error in thinking that occurs when people are processing and interpreting information in the world around them and affects their decisions and judgements.

This is one of those rare months where all sectors have done well . If you had remained invested through the month, your mutual fund value would have risen . How about that ! Foreign Institutional Investors (FII) have invested 60358 crores. This is almost the same amount they withdrew in March 2020. Overall investment in India is close to 100 thousand crores.

In my initial spotlight, I reviewed Parag Parikh and how well it has done giving double digit growth (50%) since April 2020 and 31% since YTD . You would think that it would be quite difficult to keep giving double digit growth. However, since my last review, Parag Parikh Long Term Equity Fund has given a growth of 12%