Ceylon IPO Fund vs Senfin Select Factor Fund

Ceylon IPO Fund is run by Ceylon Asset Management Limited and Senfin Select Factor Fund by Senfin Asset Management (Pvt) Ltd, so this compares two houses as well as two funds. Both are equity funds licensed by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka, which means they are doing broadly the same job, and the differences below are differences in how each house has chosen to do it.

The two charge almost the same management fee, 1.00% and 1.00% a year. In a category where the funds hold similar instruments, a fee difference is often the largest durable difference between two products; here it is not, so the comparison rests on what each holds and how much its price has moved.

Over the 180 days to the date shown, Ceylon IPO Fund returned +5.01% against Senfin Select Factor Fund's −1.21%, a gap of 6.22 percentage points. That is one window: a different 180 days would very likely order them differently, and neither figure predicts the next six months. Both are price returns on the bid side and exclude income a fund distributed rather than accrued into its price.

Both have moved by a similar amount, with annualised volatility of 15.47% and 18.72%. For two funds in the same category that is the expected result, and it means neither has taken noticeably more price movement than the other to arrive at its return.

Senfin Select Factor Fund opens at LKR 1,000 where Ceylon IPO Fund requires LKR 5,000, so for a smaller first investment only one of the two is available at all.

Among the 15 equity funds we price daily, Ceylon IPO Fund ranks 1st on 180-day return and Senfin Select Factor Fund 3rd, against a category median of −4.51% over the same window. On fee they sit 2nd and 2nd cheapest of the 15, where the median is 1.50%. On how much the price has moved, Ceylon IPO Fund is 1st steadiest and Senfin Select Factor Fund 9th.