How to evaluate a fund manager

A fund's returns are largely the manager's doing — so judge the manager, not just the headline number.

• Tenure: have they managed it long enough to own the track record?
• Consistency: look at rolling returns, not one lucky year.
• Risk control: how did their funds behave in 2020 and 2022 falls?
• AUM: very large small-cap mandates can be hard to manage.
• Across funds: do all their schemes do well, or just one?

Dhanik's fund-manager pages show schemes managed, AUM and track record in one place.

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