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Six Funds. Same Stocks. That’s Not Diversification — It’s Duplication

Overlapping Risk in Mutual Funds
🔍 I thought I was diversified. I was wrong.
Three years into my investing journey, I had 6 mutual funds in my portfolio. Large-cap fund. Flexi-cap fund. Multi-cap fund. A couple of sector funds. An index fund.

I felt covered. Balanced. Smart.
Then one afternoon, I actually sat down and looked at the underlying holdings across all six funds.
HDFC Bank — in 5 out of 6 funds. Reliance Industries — in 4 out of 6. Infosys, ICICI Bank, TCS — showing up again and again and again.
I didn't have 6 different bets. I had one concentrated bet, wrapped in 6 different wrappers.
That's Overlapping Risk in Mutual Funds — and most investors never see it coming.

Here's what it means in plain language:
When two or more funds you hold invest in the same stocks, your so-called "diversification" is an illusion. If those common stocks fall, ALL your funds fall — together, at the same time.

You don't reduce risk by owning more funds. You reduce risk by owning funds with meaningfully different underlying portfolios.
Why does this happen so often?

→ Large-cap and index funds almost always chase the same Nifty 50 names. → Fund managers in the same category tend to benchmark against the same index — so their top holdings look eerily similar. → Investors pick funds based on past returns, not portfolio composition. → A "multi-cap" and a "flexi-cap" fund can hold 70–80% of the same stocks.

How do you fix it?
✅ Use a portfolio overlap tool (Morningstar, Fisdom, Kuvera, Tickertape all offer this) to check how similar your funds actually are.
✅ If overlap between two funds exceeds 60%, seriously reconsider holding both.

✅ Mix across genuinely different categories — large-cap, mid-cap, small-cap, international, debt — not just different fund houses.
✅ Fewer, well-chosen funds often beat a cluttered portfolio of 8–10 overlapping ones.

The goal was never to collect funds. The goal was always to build real wealth — with real diversification.

I consolidated from 6 funds to 3. My portfolio got simpler, cleaner, and actually more diversified.

Are you checking for overlap in your portfolio — or just counting the number of funds and calling it diversification? 💬

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