Correction is not a worry, but a bubble in small caps could be: Rahul Singh, Tata Asset Management

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Since small-cap funds were getting too much money, Tata AMC stopped accepting lump-sum investments to prevent the fund manager from making mistakes, Rahul Singh, CIO, Equities, Tata Asset Management tells ET Wealth...

Today, we have a mix of power stocks, PSUs, railways, defence companies, which are generally low on debt and good on governance, compared to 10-12 years back..

Nobody really factors it in, and when the correction finally happens, everyone asks the same questions that they should not be asking if they had invested in small caps..

Our small-cap fund was getting too much money, but we were able to deploy only 20-30% of the inflows..

We did not want our fund manager to be pushed into making mistakes, so we stopped accepting lumpsum investments about 2-3 months back..

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