Fund managers ready to go shopping after sharp correction in stocks
Mutual funds that were holding around 8-10 percent cash level in their equity portfolio are likely to purchase shares of companies in banking and financial services, information technology, pharmaceuticals
Domestic fund managers are capitalising on the market fall and buying shares as they feel the valuations have become attractive after a sharp correction in the domestic stock market.
Mutual funds that were holding around 8-10 percent of the total AUM as cash in their equity portfolio are likely to purchase shares of companies in banking and financial services, information technology, pharmaceuticals, and media shares, fund managers said.
Normally, most fund managers prefer to keep around 4-5 percent of the AUM as cash for meeting liquidity requirements in case of a redemption.
"We are definitely buying in the market fall. We are buying good franchise companies there were good bets but valuations were expensive which have now become cheap because of the fall, said Anand Shah, Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Head-Investments, BNP Paribas Mutual Fund.
Fund managers hinted that they are picking up shares of non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), which have good franchise, distribution network, treasury management, asset liability management (ALM) management.
Concurring with Shah’s view Viral Berawala, Chief Investment Officer at Essel Mutual Fund added, “We are also doing some incremental buying in the current fall. We are buying sectors which are insulated from the current risk of crude and rupee like media and export-oriented stocks,”
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