New Delhi, May 6 -- Several mutual funds have filed with the Securities and Exchange Board of India for quality strategy funds. Quality strategy involves investing in companies that have strong fundamentals and robust balance sheets. It prioritises stocks with high profitability, high return on equity and low levels of debt.

Should those looking at diversifying their portfolios with a different investment style consider the quality theme now?

With the markets going through a phase of uncertainty, past performance suggests that the quality theme tends to do well during such times.

In 2013, when the US Federal Reserve started to unwind the huge liquidity surplus it had maintained to stimulate the economy, the benchmark Nifty 50 Index gai...