News From Press Distributors don’t like debt funds much, says survey

Distributors don’t like debt funds much, says survey

Source: Mint Aug 17, 2018

The journey towards your financial goals typically includes equity as well as debt mutual fund (MF) schemes. However, a survey by Cafemutual, an independent forum of MF professionals, has found that a majority of independent individual distributors don’t readily recommend debt funds. In the case of 57% of such distributors, just 6-25% of sales happen in debt funds. But aren’t debt funds an integral part of your asset allocation? We’ll get to it later.

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Prashant · 5 years ago `

This study is absolutely flawed because only 1117 distributors surveyed which do not represent the entire community. You should actually conduct entire distributor community study because there are only a lakh of us and this is just 1% you have surveyed so this is a flawed study

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