Exodus of top managers an unintended side effect of roaring MF industry
It boosts confidence to investors sitting on the fence.
Top officials said asking employees other than the fund management team to mandatorily invest a fifth of their salary goes against the principle of natural justice.
The scheme has a maturity of three years when it will automatically be converted into an open-ended scheme, a release said in Mumbai on Monday.
For investors, every cost-saving means higher returns.
Following the money and freezing anything unaccounted is the only way to set an example for others, suggests Debashis Basu.
Sundararaman Ramamurthy has been an interesting choice for the publicly-listed BSE, which has seen its chief move to bigger rival -- the National Stock Exchange (NSE) -- in July. Having spent nearly two decades at the country's largest bourse, Ramamurthy is among the early architects of NSE and understands all the cogs of the exchange wheel like only a few others in the country. Just like NSE's core team, which includes its founder RH Patil, the 59-year-old Ramamurthy has worked at the Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) before moving to NSE in 1995.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Fund managers's compensation is largely tied to the assets they manage and scheme performance.
Mutual funds subscriptions and redemptions will not be permitted on February 1 because all the fund houses in their scheme information documents have declared Saturday and Sunday as "non-business day".
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Our advice: exercise caution and don't get carried away by the exuberance in the markets. \n\n\n\n
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Systematic investment plans (SIPs) of mutual funds (MFs) have seen a spike in demand with new registrations touching a five-year high already this year. Around 19.5 million new SIPs have been registered till December end, as against 14.1 million in the whole of financial year 2020-21 (FY21). Market participants say increasing investor awareness and positive experiences have spurred this increase.
Omkeshwar Singh, head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Do keep the tax impact and exit load in mind before you take a decision to sell, says Vishal Dhawan.
Should you expect 15 per cent return over a period of 20 years? Dwaipayan Bose has the answer
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Senior officials in the MF industry say while the finance ministry and regulators communicate regularly, this is one of the very few instances in many years where an issue between the two has come out into the open.
With the stock coming under pressure, the MF holding value could have dropped to Rs 50 billion, back-of-the-envelope calculations show.
Under the new guidelines, the top 10 active equity schemes in terms of assets would collectively require investments of around Rs 365 crore -- up from mandated Rs 50 lakh at present -- in their own schemes.
'I don't see any major setback for the Indian markets post the US Fed event.'
To become a sponsor-free AMC, a MF must have positive liquid net worth and net profit of at least Rs 10 crore in all of the preceding five years.
Domestic mutual funds (MFs) and foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) have been net buyers of stocks in August. Domestic fund houses have continued to invest in stocks, propelled by the success of various new fund offers (NFOs) and strong flows into equity funds. MFs had purchased stocks worth more than Rs 8,300 crore until August 23, according to the data provided on the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) website. Jimmy Patel, MD and CEO at Quantum AMC, says: "The surge in equity investments by MFs is because of two key reasons. One, equity NFOs are getting a strong response from investors, and fund houses need to deploy that money in the markets.
Nikunj Saraf, Vice President Choice Wealth, answers your queries.
Birla Mutual Fund on Friday launched its new equity fund offer - 'Birla India GenNext Fund', which will invest in equities of firms that are expected to benefit from consumption habits of young people in the country.
Capitalising on the strong market sentiment, Chola Mutual Fund has launched an open-ended equity scheme Chola Multi-Cap Fund and targets to raise Rs 75 crore (Rs 750 mn) through the initial public offering.
FM hiked the limit for investors to invest in RGESS to Rs 12 lakh from Rs 10 lakh.
Investors must invest in a manner appropriate to their age, income stream, return expectations and risk appetite.
Zee and its lenders had decided to enter into an agreement to not offload the pledged shares amid a sharp slide in the prices of the underlying securities during end-Janury. The terms give the lenders a greater say, upside benefit from the proposed strategic sale, more cover and personal guarantee.
Mihir Tanna, Associate Director, S K Patodia & Associates, answers your tax queries.
Flow surge in equity schemes is an important reason why Indian stock market did not crash.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
The country's mutual fund industry posted five per cent growth in average assets under management (AUM) to touch all-time high of Rs 8.68 lakh crore in May on the back of strong inflows into money market and income funds.
Take a call to stay put or opt our based on whether you think the company will be able to find a strategic investor, suggests Sanjay Kumar Singh.
Debt funds have exposure of nearly Rs 8,000 crore to Zee group papers. Aditya Birla MF, HDFC MF, Franklin Templeton MF, and ICICI Prudential MF have the highest exposure, reports Samie Modak.
Market watchers believe that the change in guidelines fly in the face of some of the recent initiatives taken by the government, such as easing norms for foreign portfolio investors.
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