A Real Estate Investment Trust pools money from many investors to own and operate large scale, income generating real estate, and lists units representing that ownership on a stock exchange, exactly the way a company lists shares. In India, REITs have so far been built almost entirely around Grade A commercial office parks and, more recently, retail malls, rather than residential property. SEBI regulates REITs directly and requires each one to distribute at least 90% of its n

FII (-₹5,779 Cr) and DII (+₹35,099 Cr) Activity in Indian Equity Markets: July 2026 Every trading day, two large pools of capital shape the direction of Indian equities: Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) and Domestic Institutional Investors (DIIs). Their daily buying and selling numbers, published by the exchanges, offer one of the clearest windows into how confident overseas money and domestic money are feeling about Indian stocks at any given moment. The July 2026 data

A Direct Plan and a Regular Plan of the same mutual fund scheme hold the same securities, are run by the same fund manager, and follow the same investment strategy. Nothing about the underlying portfolio changes based on which plan you choose. The only structural difference is that a Regular Plan's expense ratio includes the distributor commission described in our earlier article on trail commission, while a Direct Plan's does not. That difference shows up in a very specific

Three Different Slices Of The Same Market All three of these are stock market indices, not investments in themselves. An index fund is simply a mutual fund built to hold whatever stocks a given index holds, in roughly the same proportion, so that the fund's return tracks the index's return before costs. Nifty 50 covers the 50 largest companies listed on the NSE by free float market capitalisation, the most liquid, most widely held large companies in the country. As of Septemb

A data driven ranking of 34 direct growth small cap schemes, based on fund data last updated 19 July 2026 Small cap mutual funds invest predominantly in companies ranked 251st and beyond by market capitalisation on Indian exchanges. SEBI mandates a minimum 65% allocation to these small cap stocks, with the remaining 35% available for large cap or mid cap exposure at the fund manager's discretion. This is the highest volatility mainstream equity category in the Indian mutual f

A data driven ranking of 32 direct growth multi cap schemes, based on fund data last updated 19 July 2026 Multi cap funds are one of the most structurally distinctive categories in Indian mutual funds. Following SEBI's September 2020 circular, these schemes are required to hold a minimum of 25% each in large cap stocks (top 100 companies by market capitalisation), mid cap stocks (101st to 250th), and small cap stocks (251st onwards), with the remaining 25% allocated at the fu

A data driven ranking of 33 direct growth mid cap schemes, based on fund data last updated 19 July 2026 Mid cap mutual funds invest predominantly in companies ranked between 101st and 250th by market capitalisation on Indian exchanges. SEBI mandates a minimum 65% allocation to these mid cap stocks, with the remaining 35% available for large cap or small cap exposure at the fund manager's discretion. This structure places mid cap funds in a distinct risk and return band: histo

A data driven ranking of 32 direct growth flexi cap schemes, based on fund data last updated 19 July 2026 Flexi cap funds remain one of the most popular equity categories among Indian investors, prized for the freedom they give fund managers to move money between large, mid, and small cap stocks as opportunities shift. SEBI requires these schemes to hold at least 65% of assets in equity and equity related instruments, but places no cap wise restriction beyond that, unlike mul

A data driven ranking of 33 direct growth large and mid cap schemes, based on fund data last updated 19 July 2026 Large and mid cap funds occupy a distinctive space in the Indian mutual fund landscape. SEBI mandates that these schemes hold a minimum of 35% each in large cap stocks (top 100 companies by market capitalisation) and mid cap stocks (101st to 250th companies by market capitalisation), with the remaining 30% left to the fund manager's discretion. This structure give