While each of the more than 10 equity fund categories offered by SEBI have their use cases, not all of them are required by most investors. Given that each category has 15-30 individual schemes to pick from, this confusion gets amplified.
My views on Which Equity Fund Categories Do You Really Need?, were published in a column in Economic Times Wealth (Edition 19-25 January 2026). You can read the same via this link or in the image below: