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Value Research Fund Ratings (risk-adjusted rating) identifies the best funds in the Indian mutual fund universe, giving investors a superlative platform to launch their mutual fund investment voyage, saving both effort and time.
Value Research Fund Rating is a convenient composite measure of both returns and risk. It is purely quantitative and there is no subjective component to the rating system. Each category must have a minimum of 10 funds for it to be rated. A fund with less than Rs 5 crore of average assets under management (AAUM) over the past six months will not be eligible for rating.
New Ratings:
Altogether, 18 new funds entered the VR ratings family in November. This included 10 funds in the Debt Short-term Institutional category that got rated for the first time while Floating Rate Long-term category was excluded from the rating family.
Apart from this four funds moved out of the rating mechanism.
Among the newly rated funds, four funds bagged a 5-star rating. One fund from the category of Debt Short-term Institutional - Templeton India Short-Term Income Inst - jumped directly to the elite category of 5-star funds. Another fund which bagged 5-star rating in the first month of being rated was Sahara Infrastructure Fixed Pricing, which is categorized as equity diversified. The other two funds were LICMF Floating Rate ST and ICICI Prudential Flexible Income Premium.
There were two other funds from equity diversified which entered the rating family in November. While DSPBR Small and Mid Cap Reg were rated for the first time, LIC MF Sensex Advantage entered the rating mechanism again after it got excluded on the non-fulfillment of the rating criteria in July, 2009. There were three other such funds that made a comeback into the rating family. Of these, two funds got a 4-star rating - SBI Short Horizon Debt Short Term (Inst) and JM Short-Term Institutional.
Upgrades:
22 funds got upgraded in November by one notch. Apart from the newly rated funds, five more funds entered the 5-star category while seven funds reached the 4-star rating status.
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Downgrades:
23 funds lost their earlier ratings and were downgraded by one or two notches in November. One of the biggest losers was the Tata Dividend Yield Fund. Part of the equity diversified category, it was the lone fund that was downgraded by two notches to a 3-star rating, from its earlier 5-star rating.
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468 funds however, did not register any change in their ratings and carried forward their October ratings into November.
Fund-House Round Up:
The fund houses with the highest number of rated funds were Birla Sun Life and Franklin Templeton, although the former lost two funds from the rating system from its position that consisted of 41 funds in October.
UTI fund house came in third with 36 rated funds.
Birla Sun Life and HDFC again held the number one position, having managed to get the most funds rated in the elite category, that is 4- and 5-star. Their count was 14 while ICICI Prudential had 13.
Meanwhile, Sahara had five, out of a total eight of its funds, rated 5-star, while Benchmark had two, out of a total of four funds rated 5-star. The biggest fund house, Reliance MF, had seven out of 20 funds that were 5-star rated, while five and seven funds were rated 4-star and 3-star respectively.
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