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<ul><li><keyword id="8196525" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Kotak-Pioneer-Fund">Kotak Pioneer Fund</keyword> is a new mutual fund that will be investing in companies that focus on technology and innovation. </li><li>It is uncommon for mutual funds in India to invest in unlisted equities since they pose a high-risk. </li><li>The new fund will be managed by Harish Krishnan, the Senior Vice President and Equity Fund Manager at <keyword id="119509" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Kotak-Mutual-Fund">Kotak Mutual Fund</keyword>. </li></ul>Kotak Pioneer Fund launched today will invest in new-age companies be it technology pioneers innovators and ground-breaking disruptors. "The investment objective of the scheme is to generate capital which invests into such companies that utilize new forms of production, technology, distribution or process which are likely to significantly challenge existing markets and value networks, displace established market operators, products and/or business models," it said in a press release. And, it will invest in companies which are either listed or unlisted too. It’s not usual for <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/mutual-funds-types-in-india/articleshow/69285779.cms">mutual funds</a> to invest in unlisted companies since they balance exposure between equity and debt securities. Kotak Pioneer Fund, on the other hand, will be looking to invest in unlisted equities that fall within the guidelines stipulated by market regulator, the Securities Exchange Board of India (<a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/topic/sebi">SEBI</a>). But, this fund has an underlying requirement. These startups or companies have to either be working on a new a new product, a new process, a new application of an existing process or a new way to reach out to customers — something the fund puts under the umbrella on ‘pioneering innovations’. The new fund will be managed by Harish Krishnan, the Senior Vice President and Equity Fund Manager at Kotak Mutual Fund. It has opened for subscription today, October 9, and will close on October 23. "Kotak Pioneer Fund will follow a thematic approach of investing in companies that have a proven track record of multiple revenue streams, resulting in improved customer salience," said Krishnan. High-risk bets on innovation According to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/topic/Kotak">Kotak</a>, the fund is recognising that business models are quickly changing in today’s economic climate. It proposes that companies that innovate and adapt to the changing environment, are more likely to succeed in the future. The aim is to bring more companies on board that are looking to apply new forms of production, technology, distribution or processes that will challenge the existing status-quo in the markets. A <a href="https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2017/02/26/should-mutual-funds-invest-in-startups/">University of Utah</a> <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2911394">study</a> notes that mutual fund investments in startups pose certain concerns for investors, which is why they are uncommon. It states that liquidity can be a concern since as startups don’t trade shares in the stock market. It also points out that valuations of these startups are based on the management’s discretion, as there’s no market price for guidance. And, because of the discretion in valuation, it’s possible that these funds have a greater vulnerability for misconduct. Looking beyond India The Kotak Pioneer Fund won’t exclusively be looking at companies in India, but across the globe. Nearly 35% of the funds raised could be invested in overseas securities or funds. That being said, India recently moved up on the Global Innovation Index from ranking 57th in 2018 to 52nd in 2019. So many Indian startups could gain as well. "The fund is diversified across sectors and stock to achieve risk mitigation and provides diversification across geographies as well," said Krishnan. As much as 80% to 100% of the Kotak Pioneer Fund will make investments in pioneering innovation themes while 20% can be geared towards debt security and equity. See also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/top-20-mutual-funds-in-india-latest-data/articleshow/70256239.cms">The top 20 mutual funds in India and their performance over the last one year</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/google-pays-new-tactic-to-take-on-rivals-paytm-phonepe-in-india-introduces-digital-gold-offerings/articleshow/68609832.cms">Google Pay wants to offer Indians their favourite investment option – gold</a>

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<ul><li><keyword id="8536595" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Tata-Quant-Fund">Tata Quant Fund</keyword> is India’s first fund that claims it can beat the market using artificial intelligence by cutting out human bias. </li><li>Business Insider spoke to <keyword id="1124629" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Utpal-Sharma">Utpal Sharma</keyword>, the Head of Business Analytics at Tata Asset Management about how the fund works and how it would react in case of unpredictable events — like wire.</li><li>Sharma also explains why the Tata Quant Fund doesn’t use National Language Processing (NLP) and what the main challenges are in using AI for predicting the market.</li></ul>Your next mutual fund might be managed by an AI algorithm instead of a man in a suit. But it is not a very new concept. In fact, there are already plenty of funds using AI in the US and Europe. India is joining the trend with <keyword id="1515303" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Tata-Mutual-Funds">Tata Mutual Funds</keyword> launching its first AI-driven quant fund based on the BSE 200 index. Instead of having fund managers analyse market trends to pick the best stocks, a combination of rule-based algorithms picks the winners and losers. Some, like the $54 billion Pangora Asset Management Quant Fund, even use natural language processing (NLP) to keep tabs on traders to predict upcoming market trends. "We have tried that, we didn’t get much of a lift from using that data. So, currently, we are not reading opinions and we’re not reacting to events. We have got structured data in place and making calls based on that structured data," Utpal Sharma, the Head of Business Analytics at Tata Asset Management told Business Insider. But, human intervention comes with its own set of advantages like experience, the ability to understand complex problems and instinct. And, Indian markets — since they are a part of a developing economy — can sometimes be unpredictable. "In our structure, though we are machine-driven, we have a fund manager. In the event of something seriously very different from what has happened in the past years occurs — like a war — he can intervene," explained Sharma. Why do we want to remove human judgement? One of the primary reasons to use AI to beat the market is to remove human bias from affecting choices. But it’s not that easy to measure what needs to be left out. "It’s very hard to pinpoint how human biases impacted what performances by quantum. That’s not something that we measured. We definitely think if you do it in a systematic manner where you are eliminating judgements which are not completely objectively, which are not non-deterministic," said Sharma. Using AI to beat the market Tata Mutual Funds plans to use artificial intelligence (AI) and machines learning (ML) to beat the market. It is India’s first mutual fund to offer an AI-driven investment strategy. Even though the fund may not know how to react to a situation like an unexpected war, that’s not a day-to-day occurrence. For normal events like policy changes, budget declarations and earnings, the model is geared to predict how the market will react — and figure out how to beat it. It relies on data from the past 22 years to forecast how the market will move and they claim that they’ve been testing the model since 2011. "Yes [it will beat the market]. So our index is the BSE 200. Our objective would be to deliver better results than the index. The index itself has generated around — from January to December — 10.25 per cent. Our objective is to do better than those returns," he said. However, not every quant fund is a story of success. The AI Global Equity Fund managed by Aberdeen Standard Investment underperformed in comparison to the market. The explanation offered by the fund manager was that financial market data is finite and that algorithms can only learn so much from past data. "We got two models. One which chooses the best portfolio to invest in, in the coming period. Another model which predicts whether the absolute direction is positive or negative. When we combine them, we have the ability to participate in uptrending markets while avoiding markets which are headed downwards," said Sharma. The model makes its predictions on a monthly basis and is retrained every six months, learning from past events. "We have tried this for different frequencies of relearning and tweaking the model based on recent data. We found that when we take six months incremental data and rebalance or readjust our models, that when we see the best results," explained Sharma. See also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/artificial-intelligence-in-2020-needs-to-be-about-ethics-in-india/articleshow/72935214.cms">Rise of the machines: 2020 will be a good year for India to teach AI some ethics</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/india-wants-to-be-on-the-cusp-of-artificial-intelligence-but-lacks-the-laws-to-back-it-up/articleshow/72349825.cms">India wants to be on the cusp of artificial intelligence but lacks the laws to back it up</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/enterprise/news/5g-airports-ai-powered-safe-cities-and-many-more-that-huawei-has-on-offer-at-the-india-mobile-congress-2019/articleshow/71591351.cms">5G airports, AI-powered safe cities and many more that Huawei has on offer at the India Mobile Congress 2019</a>

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Over the past few years, mutual fund schemes in India have significantly grown. As a result, we see the best performance funds keep changing. In India, systems like CRISIL, Morning Star, and ICRA evaluate the performance of <keyword id="6357979" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="mutual-funds">mutual funds</keyword> on the basis of the returns they assure, standard deviation, qualitative and quantitative aspects and other factors. When these findings are summed up, we get the list of top performing <keyword id="864677" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Mutual-Funds-in-India">mutual funds in India</keyword> for a given financial year. This list can guide the investors in choosing the right kind of avenues to invest in the domain of mutual funds. Here we discuss the <keyword id="35457" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Best-Mutual-Funds">best mutual funds</keyword> for FY 2019-20. <table style="width: 279pt;"> </colgroup> <tbody><tr> <td class="xl65" style="height:15.0pt;width:162pt">Mutual Fund Name</td> <td class="xl65" style="border-left-width: initial; border-left-style: none; width: 117pt;">12-month change (%)</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="xl65" style="height: 15pt; border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none;">Mirae Asset Mutual Fund</td> <td class="xl65" style="border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none; border-left-width: initial; border-left-style: none;">58.7</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="xl65" style="height: 15pt; border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none;">Invesco Mutual Fund</td> <td class="xl65" style="border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none; border-left-width: initial; border-left-style: none;">49.9</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="xl65" style="height: 15pt; border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none;">AXIS Mutual Fund</td> <td class="xl65" style="border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none; border-left-width: initial; border-left-style: none;">23.4</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="xl65" style="height: 15pt; border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none;">Canara Robeco Mutual Fund</td> <td class="xl65" style="border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none; border-left-width: initial; border-left-style: none;">20.5</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="xl65" style="height: 15pt; border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none;">SBI Mutual Fund</td> <td class="xl65" style="border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none; border-left-width: initial; border-left-style: none;">20.4</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="xl65" style="height: 15pt; border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none;">Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund</td> <td class="xl65" style="border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none; border-left-width: initial; border-left-style: none;">16.1</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="xl65" style="height: 15pt; border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none;">Tata Mutual Fund</td> <td class="xl65" style="border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none; border-left-width: initial; border-left-style: none;">11.8</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="xl65" style="height: 15pt; border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none;">IDFC Mutual Fund</td> <td class="xl65" style="border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none; border-left-width: initial; border-left-style: none;">11.6</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="xl65" style="height: 15pt; border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none;">PRINCIPAL Mutual Fund</td> <td class="xl65" style="border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none; border-left-width: initial; border-left-style: none;">3.9</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="xl65" style="height: 15pt; border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none;">UTI Mutual Fund</td> <td class="xl65" style="border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none; border-left-width: initial; border-left-style: none;">2.9</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="xl65" style="height: 15pt; border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none;">ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund</td> <td class="xl65" style="border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none; border-left-width: initial; border-left-style: none;">2.7</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="xl65" style="height: 15pt; border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none;">HDFC Mutual Fund</td> <td class="xl65" style="border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none; border-left-width: initial; border-left-style: none;">1</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="xl65" style="height: 15pt; border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none;">Reliance Mutual Fund</td> <td class="xl65" style="border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none; border-left-width: initial; border-left-style: none;">0.2</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="xl65" style="height: 15pt; border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none;">L&amp;T Mutual Fund</td> <td class="xl65" style="border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none; border-left-width: initial; border-left-style: none;">-7.1</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="xl65" style="height: 15pt; border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none;">Motilal Oswal Mutual Fund</td> <td class="xl65" style="border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none; border-left-width: initial; border-left-style: none;">-7.7</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="xl65" style="height: 15pt; border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none;">BNP Paribas Mutual Fund</td> <td class="xl65" style="border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none; border-left-width: initial; border-left-style: none;">-8.1</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="xl65" style="height: 15pt; border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none;">Sundaram Mutual Fund</td> <td class="xl65" style="border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none; border-left-width: initial; border-left-style: none;">-8.4</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="xl65" style="height: 15pt; border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none;">Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund</td> <td class="xl65" style="border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none; border-left-width: initial; border-left-style: none;">-9.9</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="xl65" style="height: 15pt; border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none;">Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund</td> <td class="xl65" style="border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none; border-left-width: initial; border-left-style: none;">-12.1</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="xl65" style="height: 15pt; border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none;">DSP Mutual Fund</td> <td class="xl65" style="border-top-width: initial; border-top-style: none; border-left-width: initial; border-left-style: none;">-13.3</td> </tr></tbody></table>Source: August'19 (Motilal Oswal - Indian Mutual Fund Tracker) Nifty changed by -5.6% during the same period. The background Following the market correction in 2018, the valuations in several categories have reached highly attractive levels. This has opened up new opportunities for the investors and the fund managers. India’s top performing mutual funds are all set to assure strong returns to the investors in 2019-20. Axis Blue Chip Fund Incepted on January 5, 2010, the AUM of this large cap fund is Rs. 4,802 crore. The outperformance of this fund over the recent past is impressing the industry experts during a time when a large number of actively managed funds failed during last year. As of May 2019, the 5 year CAGR of Axis Bluechip Fund is 15.16%. This can offer a solid platform for a very powerful mutual fund portfolio in 2019. Kotak Standard Multicap Fund Considered under the category of Equity Multicap fund, the AUM of Kotak Standard Multicap Fund incepted on September 11, 2009, is Rs. 23,881 crore. It has delivered a return of 19.48% over the past five years. This fund also presents immense growth prospects in the mid cap space. Fairly diversified across 56 sticks, the investors feel they are taken care very well when they invest in it. HDFC Small Cap Fund Found under the category of small cap funds and incepted on April 3, 2008, the AUM of HDFC small cap fund is Rs. 7,660 crore. Despite the severe test of the times in 2018, the fund has managed to provide the investors a 5 year CAGR at 20.83%. About 57% of this funds has been invested in small cap companies while 36% is invested in mid-cap space leaving the remaining 6% to large caps. Franklin India Prima Fund Incepted on December 1, 1993, this fund has completed 25 years in the stock market. Categorized as mid cap fund, the AUM is Rs. 7,116 crore. It could deliver a highly amazing 19.52 CAGR. This will mean that if a sum of Rs 1 lakh was invested in during its inception, it will value at Rs 90.70 lacs now. Axis Long Term Equity Fund Incepted on December 29, 2009 and categorized as ELSS tax saving fund, the AUM of this fund is Rs. 18,852 crore. This fund is considered as a legend in the arena of tax saving schemes. For a long time, it has continuously outperformed till it reached a point when a majority of investors always had a portion of their tax saving investment in this fund. See Also:<a data-type="tilCustomLink">Top Mutual Funds to invest this Diwali for long-term prosperity of your Family</a>

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<keyword id="19896016" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="new-delhi" source="keywords">New Delhi</keyword>, <keyword id="20848502" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="mutual-fund-distributors" source="keywords">Mutual fund distributors</keyword> will now have the opportunity to receive trail commissions from <keyword id="20030502" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="asset-management-companies" source="keywords">Asset Management Companies</keyword> (AMCs) for assets transferred by an investor from one distributor to another. This change follows numerous requests from Mutual Fund Distributors (MFDs) to review the current AMFI Registration Number (ARN) transfer norms. These norms currently prevent AMCs from paying trail commissions to the new distributor when an investor transfers their assets to a new <keyword id="20094258" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="mfd" source="keywords">MFD</keyword>. In a communication to its members on Tuesday, <keyword id="20090034" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="association-of-mutual-funds" source="keywords">Association of Mutual Funds</keyword> in India (Amfi) permitted AMCs to pay trail commission to distributors in case a client transfers his assets from one distributor to another. However, AMCs can only pay trail commission after cooling off period of six months from the date of transfer of assets by investors. "In respect of change in distributor/ ARN code initiated by the investor, the AMCs may consider making payment of trail commission to the transferee distributor after a cooling off period of six months from the change of distributor code in the unitholder database," the industry body said. Further, It said that the payment of commission to the new (transferee) distributor would be based on the lower of the commission rate of the transferor and the transferee distributor. The mutual fund body further clarified that apart from trail commission, no other payments of any kind, including incentives, will be made regarding changes in the distributor. The industry body Amfi noted that the current ARN rule was introduced over a decade ago to curb certain market practices prevailing then, which may no longer be prevalent, and also since the transferee mutual fund distributor provides the same level of support and service to the concerned investors on the transferred assets.

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