Is it Time to Exit Icici Prudential Value Discovery Fund?
Icici Pru Value Discovery Fund has not outperformed its benchmark BSE 500 over last 5 years.
Is it time to exit the fund? Answer could be “YES / No” or “With some considerations”, Let’s find out which can be the option.
For any Mutual Fund Strategy, Investment Mandate is of critical importance. Hence, the fund manager of the scheme cannot go against the mandate to improve the performance.
Value Discovery Fund strictly belongs to Value Category with Blend Portfolio. Value is used to diversify the portfolio. Make sure you understand truly the meaning of Diversification.
All funds in your portfolio will never generate returns at most times. While some funds will have upside & some at lower. Value Funds will help you regain your losses over longer period.
Investment Objective of this scheme says: To generate returns through dividend income & capital appreciation by investing primarily in a well-diversified portfolio of value stocks.
It also says, “However, there is no assurance or guarantee that the investment objective of the Scheme would be achieved.”
This might be a warning bell according to me.
In this fund’s case, inflow has stopped & redemptions has increased. In Sept 2018, AUM of this scheme was 16477.28 Crores, whereas, in Sept 2019 it was 15095.61 Crores. Can you think what would be the reason for this?
Through above image, you can understand the fund has underperformed its benchmark & category for 1 yr, 3 yrs & 5 yrs duration.
The fund has outperformed the index by only 2044 times as compared to 2113 times.
To understand it more clearly how the fund has performed vis-a-vis with other fund of same category i.e. Value Style, view the comparison.
What should you do as an Investor? Is it time to Exit?
What will be your call:- If the fund manager deviates from investment mandate to improve performance
OR
Is the Mandate Important?
- If Mandate is important, Can you Handle Value Strategy? If the answer is YES…then stay invested. If NO, then Exit.
- If returns make you happy….then you are investing in wrong strategy & hope some strategy will be created in future.
Artharthi 