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Do you have an international equity mutual fund scheme added to your investment portfolio meant for wealth creation? If you do not have then you are ignoring over 95% of the investment opportunity out there today!
Why So?
Very a much smaller number of investors add equity mutual funds from another geography than India and miss out on the chance to get benefits from the wealth being generated outside of their countries. As per surveys and reports, it has been analyzed that around 95% of the investors invest in funds in-home geographies.
Experts say adding international equity mutual funds to your portfolio might be risky but at the same time much beneficial for generating good returns. Investors especially experienced investors must have a part of the portfolio exposed to international equity mutual funds.
Key Takeaways-
- International Equity mutual fund schemes are those funds that invest in stocks and shares of companies in geography other than India.
- Adding an international equity fund to your portfolio helps you get the benefits of wealth generated by businesses of other countries.
- International equity to your portfolio along with Indian equity mutual funds, help you get benefits of exposure to global opportunities and diversified risk.
- If you invest in international funds for the long term, you can obtain good benefits from the currency movement.
- They can invest in international mutual funds schemes, offered by Indian mutual fund companies, and can get benefits from the wealth being generated outside of their countries.
- Below are some prominent reasons that explain why every strong portfolio needs exposure to international funds. Read them and understand.
Help Diversify The Portfolio…
If before starting your investment in mutual funds, you would have searched about the investment strategies, you might have come across the term, “Diversify your portfolio”!
Diversification is one of the most important strategies that must be. Might be some of you would have diversified their portfolio by investing in the different asset classes, like Equity funds, debt funds, and a bit of exposure to equity shares also.
This is also a diversification strategy however, this type gives exposure to only one kind of risk, of the Indian Equity Market.
If you add some amount of international equity to your portfolio along with Indian equity mutual funds, you get two prominent benefits, exposure to global opportunities, and diversified risk.
Investing in international funds allows you to grab the benefits generated by the businesses that are otherwise not present in your own geography. These businesses can be innovative technology-driven that retains the capacity to perform well in the future.
Currency Exchange Advantage…
If you invest in international equity funds related to countries where the currency is stronger than India, you can obtain the benefits from potential exchange rate disparity in addition to stock appreciation.
International funds run a fund of fund kind structure. When any investors invest in an international fund offered by Indian AMC’s in rupees, this is then converted and invested in the underlying overseas fund in the relevant currency that the fund is denominated in.
After that, at the time they redeem their units, the process is reversed. That is returns generated in the form of overseas currency are converted to rupees.
If you invest in international funds for the long-term, and during your investment, the overseas currency is appreciated a good number of times, get ready you are going to reap good benefits from currency movement.
Here you need to note that based on the prevalent exchange rate and foreign currency mark-up changed by the intermediary you may lose out 3% of the fund value on both sending and repatriating your funds.
Thus, experts say while you add an international equity fund to your portfolio make sure you invest in them for the long term.
Let Us Sum Up!
The above points explain why there is a need to have a bit of your portfolio exposed to international equity funds. Experts say international investing should be a definite tick mark on your investment radar.
After this, if you plan to invest in International Equity funds, I advise being mindful of how much you are allocating, in which stocks you are putting your money, and for how long you are going to invest!
For any kind of query, you can contact us at Shri Ashutosh Securities Pvt Ltd., we are here to help you in any way possible.
Happy Investing!
(Mutual Fund investments are subject to market risk Illustrations are for example only, there is no guarantee of returns. Past performance is not an indicator/guarantee to future returns).