Challenge Day 41 of 90 days of covering finance, industry insights and business lessons Topic: Understanding Contra funds 🎯 - Many fund managers of mutual funds follow different strategies other than following the trends in the stock market - The focus of the fund managers is to look at the investment opportunities where majority of the investors are not investing their capital - Due to the contrary view of the fund managers, the funds that are managed by these techniques are called Contra Funds - The objective of these techniques of the fund manager is to earn superlative returns - Of course with the objective of gaining higher returns comes with the high risk so there is high risk reward ratio in these types of funds - Thus, the Contra funds invest against the market trends and purchases underperforming stocks What are your opinions about the Contra Funds? #contrafunds #challengeday41 #finance #equityresearch
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