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How to compute LTCG on PPFCF with grandfathering

Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

PPFCF launched in May 2013 (as PPLTVF, before two renames). Many of the fund’s long-tenure unit holders therefore have holdings that pre-date the 31 January 2018 grandfathering cut-off, which is the date on which the Finance Act 2018 introduced Section 112A and, with it, the grandfathering provision. For any equity-oriented unit acquired on or before that date, the cost basis for capital-gains purposes is stepped up to the higher of (i) the actual acquisition cost or (ii) the fair-market-value (FMV) on 31 January 2018, with a sale-price cap. For an investor who bought PPFCF at, say, Rs 15 NAV in 2014 and held through to a redemption today, the cost basis isn’t Rs 15; it’s the higher of Rs 15 or the PPFCF NAV as of 31 January 2018 (around Rs 26 for PPLTVF Direct Growth). That step-up materially reduces the taxable gain.

How to invest in PPFCF lump sum via SelfInvest portal

Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A lump-sum order in PPFCF through SelfInvest is one of the most common transactions on the PPFAS portal. The flow itself is unremarkable (log in, search, amount, pay, confirm), but the part most first-time investors get wrong is the NAV applicability rule: the same-day NAV depends on whether funds were realised at the AMC’s bank before the 3 p.m. cut-off, not on when you initiated payment. UPI and IMPS realise in seconds; RTGS within minutes during RBI hours; NEFT settles in batches and can push your order to the next day’s NAV. The rest is housekeeping. PPFCF crossed Rs 1 lakh crore in AUM in late 2025, making it India’s largest flexi-cap fund ; the direct-plan TER on SelfInvest is the only one available, since regular plans live with distributors.

How to read PPFCF portfolio-holdings disclosure

Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The PPFCF monthly portfolio disclosure is one of the most-read mutual fund holdings sheets in Indian retail investing, because the fund’s distinctive positioning makes the composition genuinely informative. PPFCF holds approximately 30-37 names total (focused rather than diversified across 100+ like most flexi-cap peers), maintains 8-15 per cent in cash and arbitrage as a structural feature rather than a parking gap, and carries overseas direct equity at 11-16 per cent of corpus (down from a 2021 peak of around 28 per cent, capped since SEBI’s industry-wide overseas-allocation pause in early 2022). Reading the disclosure means looking past the standard “top 10 holdings” view to those features: how concentrated the top holdings are, how much sits in cash, what the overseas slice looks like in detail.

How to start a PPFCF SIP via SelfInvest portal

Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Registering an SIP on SelfInvest is two distinct pieces of work that often get conflated. The SIP itself (scheme, amount, frequency, date, tenure) is registered in minutes. The recurring debit authorisation behind it (NACH e-mandate or UPI Autopay) takes 5 to 10 business days to activate the first time you set up a mandate on a given bank account. Plan the first SIP date with that activation window in mind; pick a date at least two weeks out, or your first installment will simply roll to the following cycle. PPFCF is India’s largest flexi-cap fund by AUM as of late 2025, and the SelfInvest route gives you the direct plan only.

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