Best medium duration mutual funds to invest in April 2025
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Best medium duration schemes to invest in April 2025
SBI Magnum Medium Duration Fund
HDFC Medium Term Debt Fund
Bandhan Bond Fund - Medium Term Plan
Axis Strategic Bond Fund
Many investment advisors believe that medium duration funds are better placed to offer superior returns when the interest rates start falling. Debt mutual funds offer attractive returns in a falling interest rate environment. If that interests you, you can learn more about medium duration funds.Most mutual fund investors stick to liquid funds, ultra short term funds, short term funds, banking & PSU funds, corporate funds, etc. to take care of their short-term needs. Most of them might know about gilt funds. Even though they may not invest in them. However, many investors are not aware of medium duration funds. Chances are that most people will keep hearing about medium duration funds this year because most mutual fund advisors are recommending these schemes to their clients these days.As per Sebi mandate, medium duration funds must invest in debt and money market instruments with Macaulay duration of three to four years. As you can see, these schemes are suitable for investors looking to invest for three to four years or more. However, you should check the portfolio duration of the scheme to ensure that the scheme is in line with your investment horizon.Most mutual fund advisors do not recommend medium and long term debt schemes to regular investors. These schemes are extremely sensitive to changes in the interest rate environment. They suffer when the rates go up. Mutual fund advisors say many conservative investors would find it difficult to handle the volatility faced by these schemes.In short, if you are looking for a debt mutual fund where you can park money for four years or more and are ready to take some risk and volatility, you can consider investing in medium duration funds.Please watch out for monthly updates so that you can keep track of your schemes. Bandhan Bond Fund Medium Term Plan, one of the recommended schemes, has been in the fourth quartile for the last 21 months. The scheme had been in the third quartile earlier. HDFC Medium Term Debt Fund has been in the third quartile for the last 18 months.ETMutualFunds has employed the following parameters for shortlisting the debt mutual fund schemes.Rolled daily for the last three years.Hurst Exponent, H is used for computing the consistency of a fund. The H exponent is a measure of randomness of NAV series of a fund. Funds with high H tend to exhibit low volatility compared to funds with low H.i)When H = 0.5, the series of returns is said to be a geometric Brownian time series. This type of time series is difficult to forecast.ii)When H <0.5, the series is said to be mean reverting.iii)When H>0.5, the series is said to be persistent. The larger the value of H, the stronger is the trend of the seriesWe have considered only the negative returns given by the mutual fund scheme for this measure.X =Returns below zeroY = Sum of all squares of XZ = Y/number of days taken for computing the ratioDownside risk = Square root of ZFund Return – Benchmark return. Rolling returns rolled daily is used for computing the return of the fund and the benchmark and subsequently the Active return of the fund.For debt funds, the threshold asset size is Rs 50 crore
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