Why Mutual Funds are not performing? — Transcript
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- 0:00You know, every day I meet all these
- 0:03people and they ask me one question.
- 0:06What mutual fund should I buy?
- 0:14Excuse me.
- 0:15You know the EV sector? Actually small
- 0:17cap. You know, uh
- 0:22>> [music]
- 0:27>> And I see so many mistakes of all of
- 0:30these people when they actually [music]
- 0:32pick their mutual fund.
- 0:34So,
- 0:35in this video we thought we'll do three
- 0:37things. [music] One, we'll talk about
- 0:39some main metrics you should look at the
- 0:41fact sheet and we look at a bunch of
- 0:42examples. Two, the qualitative factors
- 0:45[music] of what you should look. And
- 0:47three, the most important, what common
- 0:49mistakes everyone is doing [music]
- 0:51and you should avoid. So, let's get
- 0:52started.
- 0:54Now, I know what you're thinking. You're
- 0:56thinking mutual fund may the most
- 0:58important thing is this.
- 1:00The returns. Absolutely wrong. [music]
- 1:03So, what do you see apart from just
- 1:06returns? Let's suppose you want to go to
- 1:08Ladakh, finally, [music] and you're
- 1:10going by bike.
- 1:13Your starting point is over here and you
- 1:15have two different ways to actually get
- 1:18to Ladakh. There is option A
- 1:22and option B.
- 1:23>> [music]
- 1:24>> This is what option B looks like. It is
- 1:26via Manali
- 1:28and it's actually
- 1:31quite a tough way to get to actual
- 1:33Ladakh. And if I have a red marker here,
- 1:36I'll also add to you have been on the
- 1:39road maybe broken a little bit. This is
- 1:41an accident-prone area. The elevation
- 1:43increases and decreases very quickly and
- 1:46it's just not as enjoyable as option A,
- 1:50which is way, way smoother, which goes
- 1:54via Kashmir. And that place [music] is a
- 1:57little easier. The You can see meadows
- 1:59on either side, and it's probably
- 2:00[music] a little beautiful. How does
- 2:01this compare to a mutual fund?
- 2:04Basically, you're looking at returns of
- 2:06a mutual fund and how it got there.
- 2:09[music] If it's very, very volatile, and
- 2:11I'll show you a real example after this,
- 2:13then that is less preferred [music]
- 2:14because it's taking a lot more risk. I
- 2:16got no idea what we are trying to then
- 2:19you pick option A. And this is actually
- 2:21called
- 2:27Now, let me show you what this looks
- 2:28like on an [music] actual mutual fund.
- 2:30Let's look at the fact sheet. The fact
- 2:33sheet is basically like a report card
- 2:35with all the metrics of a fund. Go to
- 2:39the search bar over here, and on this
- 2:42platform search for, let's say, XYZ
- 2:44mutual fund.
- 2:45And you open that up. As soon as you
- 2:47open it up, you'll get the basics of
- 2:49that mutual fund. But, what we are
- 2:51looking for is the fact sheet, okay? So,
- 2:54what you need to do is scroll down here,
- 2:57and on Coin, they put it over here under
- 2:59scheme documents. [music] Click on this,
- 3:01and the website will open up, and you'll
- 3:03be able to actually
- 3:05open the fact sheet over here.
- 3:07>> [music]
- 3:07>> By the way, if you've not started your
- 3:09investing journey, a good place to start
- 3:11is to actually open a free demat
- 3:13account. So, go to the link in the
- 3:15description, click on it, open the
- 3:17account so at least you get started. So,
- 3:19one way to think about this is the
- 3:21trailing returns for this particular
- 3:23fund for the last 3 years is 17.59%,
- 3:27and the 3-year standard deviation is
- 3:2914.78.
- 3:31So, one expectation you can have is that
- 3:33over a long period of time, this has
- 3:35given 17.59, in this case, a 3-year
- 3:38annualized return. [music]
- 3:39It's going to be a plus minus 14.78%
- 3:42going forward. Now, imagine if this
- 3:44number was like
- 3:4640%. You don't normally see such a big
- 3:48number, but imagine, then you'd assume
- 3:51that there'd be too much volatility. And
- 3:53that's [music] just not a good thing.
- 3:54Now, a good question would be, what's a
- 3:56good standard deviation metric? Well,
- 3:59there is none. So, if I'm looking at a
- 4:01flexi cap, then you see all of the
- 4:03standard deviations in all of the flexi
- 4:05caps and compare which one is the
- 4:07lowest. If you take a different
- 4:09category, compare the funds of the same
- 4:11category. But that's just one metric.
- 4:13Now, let's talk about the second metric
- 4:16>> [music]
- 4:16>> and let's bring
- 4:19this example back.
- 4:21Imagine there are two drivers. Both of
- 4:23them have exactly the same bike. One of
- 4:26them is our benchmark. It can be the
- 4:27Nifty 50, the Sensex, Bank Nifty, any
- 4:30index that your fund category considers,
- 4:33and the other is our fund. Now, our fund
- 4:36wants to beat this benchmark, which
- 4:38basically means [music] it wants to give
- 4:40better returns than the benchmark. So,
- 4:42it decides to put it in a nitro booster.
- 4:44By adding this nitro, our fund is also
- 4:47taking extra risk. But how much extra
- 4:50risk is the fund taking? And how do we
- 4:53measure it?
- 4:55This brings us to our new metric. The
- 4:57second one is
- 5:00Let me show you what this looks like on
- 5:01the fact sheet.
- 5:02>> [music]
- 5:02>> So, here it says 1.05.
- 5:06And the beta for this one is 0.95.
- 5:09This means if the index goes up or down
- 5:12by 10%, [music] this fund will go up or
- 5:15down by 10.5% and this one will go up or
- 5:18down by only 9.5%. [music]
- 5:21Now, you might not see this happening
- 5:22exactly, but statistically, this is how
- 5:26they behave. So, imagine if I blow this
- 5:28number out of proportion. Let's say the
- 5:30beta is two.
- 5:31>> [music]
- 5:31>> So, that also means that this will fall
- 5:33twice as hard as the index, but may
- 5:36perform twice as better as the index.
- 5:39[music] It's taking more risk.
- 5:41And you need to understand how much more
- 5:43risk is okay with you.
- 5:45>> [music]
- 5:45>> Now, is this good or bad? You decide.
- 5:48Which of these riders was actually good
- 5:50or bad? You like the more riskier one?
- 5:52Then, good for you. [music] You like the
- 5:54less riskier one? Good for you. The
- 5:56point is that you pick. There is no
- 5:57best. And now, we come to our third
- 6:00metric. And I'm going to bring this back
- 6:03yet again. And if you like this drawing,
- 6:06all of this explanation, these props,
- 6:08everything you see,
- 6:09can you please subscribe? I really think
- 6:11[music] we put in a lot of thinking on
- 6:13how to make something really simple for
- 6:15you and your zero to one money journey
- 6:17becomes better. So, the more love you
- 6:18show, the more motivated we get. [music]
- 6:21Now, getting back to our two riders over
- 6:23here, what's interesting is
- 6:25same riding style, same bike. One of
- 6:28them [music]
- 6:29took extra risk, right? By adding their
- 6:33nitro booster.
- 6:34>> [music]
- 6:35>> What is the second biker getting in
- 6:37return for taking this extra risk? He's
- 6:40earning time, right?
- 6:41And this is precisely what our next
- 6:43metric actually calculates,
- 6:45>> [music]
- 6:45>> which is, let me write it,
- 6:51the Sharpe ratio.
- 6:55The ratio measures the additional return
- 6:57a fund has generated over a government
- 7:00bond, which is basically considered the
- 7:02risk-free [music] return. And it divides
- 7:04that extra return with the risk that
- 7:05fund took, which is simply the standard
- 7:08deviation we just discussed. [music] And
- 7:09it then helps you to compare different
- 7:11funds on how they are managing their
- 7:14risk. So, now let's look at the fact
- 7:16sheet over here. If I look at 3 years
- 7:18annualized, it's 17%. 3 years, this is
- 7:2016.97. Let's assume they're exactly the
- 7:23same because it'll be easier to
- 7:25understand.
- 7:26And let's say, um, the actual Sharpe
- 7:29ratio here is
- 7:310.62 and [music] the Sharpe ratio here
- 7:34is 0.73.
- 7:36The Sharpe ratio, which is higher,
- 7:38>> [music]
- 7:38>> means that for the additional units of
- 7:40risk it took, it actually got additional
- 7:42units of
- 7:43>> [music]
- 7:43>> uh reward. So, over here it seems like
- 7:45the risk was managed slightly better and
- 7:48the returns in this particular time
- 7:50period [music]
- 7:51paid off.
- 7:53There's one thing that you should note.
- 7:54All of these numbers and and analysis
- 7:56[music] is based on what happened in the
- 7:58past. It actually does not reflect what
- 8:01is going to happen in the future,
- 8:02[music] but it gives you an
- 8:03approximation of how the fund manager
- 8:05has managed his risk so far. And I think
- 8:09that is worth [music] considering. You
- 8:11don't want a fund to be too much of an
- 8:13outlier in any of the metrics. It should
- 8:15be decent in almost [music] all of them.
- 8:17And always look at a range. One single
- 8:20number does not [music] make sense. Now,
- 8:22this fact sheet actually has a lot more
- 8:24stuff that we can cover, but I don't
- 8:26have enough time. So, we think we should
- 8:28do a different video on it, but you have
- 8:30not subscribed, right?
- 8:33So, all I want you to do is hit that
- 8:34subscribe button. So, when we make the
- 8:36next part of this, you can actually
- 8:38watch it. Now, we've come to the second
- 8:40part of the analysis, which is
- 8:41qualitative factors. The third part is
- 8:43common mistakes and I love that part.
- 8:46So, if you want to skip to that part,
- 8:47[music] you can. But, I want to talk
- 8:49about the qualitative bit. This box over
- 8:51here is quite [music] interesting. It
- 8:53actually maps two things. One on this
- 8:56axis, which tells you how large or small
- 8:59the fund is investing in, whether it's
- 9:01large cap, mid cap, or small cap. And
- 9:03then in this axis, it's showing you
- 9:05value
- 9:06or growth.
- 9:08And then it plots what kind of market
- 9:09cap companies with what style is being
- 9:12plotted.
- 9:12>> [music]
- 9:13>> A value approach is when the fund
- 9:15manager thinks that a certain company's
- 9:17undervalued
- 9:18>> [music]
- 9:19>> and eventually the market forces will
- 9:21determine a way to price this better and
- 9:24[music] unlock value will happen in the
- 9:26future. So, it may take some time for
- 9:29this to give returns.
- 9:30The second approach is the growth
- 9:32approach, where you say, "Okay, I will
- 9:34find companies which are outcompeting
- 9:37their competitors, growing really really
- 9:39fast, and the future looks bright.
- 9:42And that is a growth approach. It's
- 9:43slightly more aggressive. It's [music] a
- 9:45different style. Now, ideally,
- 9:48you should know what kind of person are
- 9:50you.
- 9:51>> [music]
- 9:51>> Do you like a value approach? Do you
- 9:53like a growth approach? In my opinion,
- 9:55no one really knows. Everyone just wants
- 9:58to invest and see a good return. But if
- 10:00you're that kind of person who wants to
- 10:02align himself to what the fund manager
- 10:04is thinking, blah blah blah, then this
- 10:07uh
- 10:08this is one place where you can see
- 10:09whether his style makes [music] sense to
- 10:11you or not. But I think the best
- 10:12qualitative factor to analyze
- 10:15is actually you.
- 10:16Did you know way more than 50% of people
- 10:20who start an SIP [music]
- 10:22never continue it? Which means as soon
- 10:24as in the market dips, people just exit
- 10:26the stock. If all of you are learning
- 10:28this, watching this,
- 10:29>> [music]
- 10:29>> but you're exiting your damn SIP.
- 10:32So, I want everyone to make a promise
- 10:33right now. Pause the video. Go to
- 10:35comments and say, "I will not stop my
- 10:37SIP." I think that qualitative factor
- 10:39[music] matters way more than any other
- 10:42analysis that you can do. Now comes my
- 10:44favorite part.
- 10:46Common mistakes all of you guys are
- 10:48doing and no one told you how to fix it.
- 10:51Mistake number one, let's say you're
- 10:53supposed to compare
- 10:55this pen with this paper thing.
- 10:59Obviously, not comparable, but people do
- 11:01this all the time. You can't compare
- 11:03defense [music] sector car fund versus a
- 11:06large cap. You can't compare small cap
- 11:08versus large cap. These are two
- 11:09different kinds of funds with different
- 11:12kinds of stocks with different risk
- 11:14profiles, different everything. So, what
- 11:16you should do is you should compare the
- 11:17right things. You should compare one
- 11:19flexi cap with another, or one large cap
- 11:21with another. And because that is the
- 11:24same, the comparable actually makes
- 11:26sense. And of course, with all these
- 11:28numbers, you should make sure that your
- 11:29comparable is right, and your benchmark
- 11:32is also right.
- 11:33>> [music]
- 11:33>> The next mistake is this. A lot of your
- 11:35friends would have invested in a bunch
- 11:38of funds, okay? A bunch of funds. So,
- 11:39let's imagine fund number one, fund
- 11:42number 1 minute.
- 11:44Fund number two, fund number three, fund
- 11:46number four.
- 11:48And uh let me add one more, fund [music]
- 11:50number five. The colors please ignore
- 11:52the colors. The colors don't matter.
- 11:53These are different funds.
- 11:54>> [music]
- 11:54>> And you're like, "Dude, I've invested in
- 11:56four, 1 2 3 4 5 different funds, and all
- 11:59of them will give me a return."
- 12:02Problem. The first problem is imagine if
- 12:04all of these funds
- 12:06invested in one stock.
- 12:08>> [music]
- 12:08>> I know a fund does not invest in one
- 12:09stock, but please bear with me.
- 12:11They all invest in
- 12:12>> [music]
- 12:13>> This one invested in HDFC Bank.
- 12:15This particular fund invested in HDFC
- 12:17Bank. This particular fund invested in
- 12:20HDFC Bank. The fourth fund did something
- 12:22innovative and invested in HDFC Bank.
- 12:24>> [music]
- 12:25>> And the fifth fund did something
- 12:26innovative and invest in some other
- 12:28company.
- 12:29Now, you Do you really have five
- 12:31different funds? [music]
- 12:34No.
- 12:36The same is true for an entire [music]
- 12:40portfolio as well. Imagine if you've
- 12:42invested in four different flexi caps,
- 12:44and all of them have the same major
- 12:46funds over there.
- 12:48This is called overlap.
- 12:50>> [music]
- 12:50>> You don't want all these funds to have
- 12:52an overlap of similar stocks, and
- 12:55basically you've done no diversification
- 12:57within equity.
- 12:58>> [music]
- 12:58>> You want to diversify in two ways.
- 13:00In different kinds of assets, not just
- 13:03equity, but all the other assets. And
- 13:05within equity, hopefully, you do
- 13:07different market caps as well. [music]
- 13:10The next mistake is actually very
- 13:12interesting. All of us jump into mutual
- 13:14funds, but we don't think uh
- 13:18If you've picked [music] a mutual fund,
- 13:20does it really beat the index over a
- 13:23long period of time? [music] I mean,
- 13:25over here, you can see that we can
- 13:27compare your portfolio with the index.
- 13:30>> [music]
- 13:30>> Did you actually beat Nifty or not? It's
- 13:32actually a pretty cool feature to
- 13:33understand. So, one thing you should
- 13:35definitely ask yourself, and there's no
- 13:37right or wrong over here, [music] is do
- 13:38you really want to go passive and take
- 13:40an index fund? Or do you want to have
- 13:42some active [music] funds as well? And I
- 13:44think the best thing you can do for
- 13:46yourself is have like a very small
- 13:48number of funds. I would say two,
- 13:49[music]
- 13:50three max.
- 13:52And
- 13:53just be so busy in life
- 13:56that you forget looking at those
- 13:58returns.
- 13:59>> [music]
- 13:59>> And one day, when you're old and gray,
- 14:01the compounding has happened, and you
- 14:03had forgotten about these because you
- 14:05were busy living life.
- 14:07Because the more you're going to
- 14:09overthink this the more you're
- 14:11going to not make money.
- 14:15Bye-bye. See [music] you in the next
- 14:16episode.
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