Blindly following websites, people (experts or not), articles, here say?

Recently, an article was published from a SEBI registered research analyst website. This article more or less went viral (which was probably the intent in publishing it ??‍♂️ because of the content it carried)

Content – a blanket exit call for all equity schemes from a fund house ?

The exit call was driven mostly around subjective parameters which were a little pungent & odour driven but added with a pinch of objectivity (yes, there was thankfully)

At the end of the day, their call might become a reality (I don’t know) but the reasoning might utterly fail ?

I’ll show a small example on how these research websites make MF portfolios for subscribers (absolutely fooling them)

Here is a compilation of their MF portfolio recommended for a holding period of 7 years plus….

Education / Wedding / Retirement / Wealth are the different goals under which the portfolios were extracted…

all of them have the same portfolios with the same allocations ??

Bottomline…. whatever is the goal / diagnosis, we have the same PARACETAMOL combination drugs

Overall, there might be over 20 or 25 plus portfolios (ready made) & the portfolios taken for this tenor gave more or less the same result ??‍♂️

If we start to check for other tenors & goals, it wouldn’t change much because for all those tenors….the portfolios might actually more or less match

Talk about goals & metrics ???

What would happen to a subscriber who wishes to follow their ready made portfolios for investing???

Oh yes… There is a disclaimer down below ?

Now let’s introspect – do we need to follow such writings, even if they turn out to be a reality in the future?

Their claim to fame also has been a call on debt schemes of the fund house but that’s a Shikari Shambu effect that I wrote earlier.

Above is the little snapshot compilation ??

I generally refrain from penning such thoughts, but this was important to write and mention – how readers / subscribers can be taken for a ride

Beware Subscriber / Reader

Btw….the latest update

One of the schemes in the portfolio s above (recommended last quarter) has been removed from their recommendation list due to consistent underperdormance which they’ve been mentioning for long (apparently)…they’ve asked to stop SIP s as well.

I extracted the above portfolios yesterday ????

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