Most passive large cap funds fail to beat benchmarks in 2023; Motilal Oswal S&P BSE Enhanced Value Index Fund give 26.86%
Let us look at the data. There were around 52 passively-managed schemes in the large cap category. However, only four passively-managed large cap schemes managed to outperform their respective benchmarks in 2023. Most schemes — 48 schemes – underperformed their benchmarks. In comparison, there were 30 schemes in the actively-managed large cap mutual fund category. Around 24 actively-managed large cap schemes managed to outperform their respective benchmarks in 2023. Only six schemes underperformed their benchmarks.
If you want to see the performance of active large cap funds, see story: Large cap funds offer 11.45% average return in 2023; Axis Bluechip Fund give 6.87%
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Simply put, the trend so far in this year is challenging for passively-managed large cap schemes, compared to the actively-managed large cap schemes. Out of 52 passively-managed large cap schemes, 40 schemes have given single-digit returns, 12 schemes gave double-digit returns in 2023 so far. The passively-managed or index-based large cap schemes have offered an average return of 8.44% in 2023.
Note, they’re are a large number of passive large cap schemes. However, we considered only schemes that invest in top 100 stocks. That is why we considered the passive schemes benchmarked against NIFTY 50 — TRI, Nifty50 Value 20 — TRI, NIFTY50 Equal Weight — TRI, Nifty100 Low Volatility 30 — TRI, Nifty100 Equal Weight — TRI, S&P BSE SENSEX — TRI, NIFTY 100 — TRI, and NIFTY NEXT 50 — TRI. We considered the regular and growth options. These benchmarks offered around 6.15-14.40% returns in 2023.
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