What should be your debt fund strategy after RBI policy?

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What should be your debt fund strategy after RBI policy? RBI has kept repo rate unchanged in its second bi-monthly monetary policy review. Against this backdrop, what should debt mutual fund investors do? Don't exit long duration funds, says Abhiroop Mukherjee of Motilal Oswal AMC Short-to-medium duration funds would be the ideal space because there still are a lot of uncertainties in the market, says Abhiroop Mukherjee. What to do when downgrades hit your mutual fund schemes In most cases, experts ask investors to stick to their schemes, even after downgrades. Is that a good advice? Nervous investors in small and midcap schemes look for special advice Perturbed by the possibility of a steep fall of small and midcap stocks, these investors are calling up their advisors to check whether they should take their profits. NFO review: IDBI Small Cap Fund The scheme would invest a minimum of 65 per cent in equity and equity-related instruments of smallcap companies. PFRDA is examining low returns, mandatory annuitisation under NPS "It is not fair to compare the rate of interest on a financial instrument of, say, 5 to 10 years duration with that of an annuity contract. " Will I be able to build a corpus of Rs 1 crore with these funds? If you have any mutual fund queries, message ET Mutual Funds on Facebook. We will get it answered by our panel of experts.

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