Indian asset management companies (AMCs) are likely to see a hefty spike in their valuations, after the last week's 5 per cent equity stake sale by Reliance Mutual Fund to US-based hedge fund Eton Park.
CBI conducted raids at over two dozen places including those of senior officials of SBI Mutual Fund, UTI and broker Ketan Parekh for allegedly duping the financial institutions of crores of rupees in the latest stock market scam.
Omkeshwar Singh, head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Wondering if mutual fund investments can help you make you enough money for your retirement and child's marriage? Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Nikunj Saraf, Vice President Choice Wealth, answers your Mutual Fund queries.
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.
With market regulator SEBI having no objection, leading mutual funds including UTI AMC are now awaiting Reserve Bank's nod to invest in the equity of Fortune-500 companies.
Apprehending a sharp decline in business, mutual funds including UTI AMC have asked Finance Minister P Chidambaram to exempt all debt instruments from the proposed 0.15 per cent transaction tax.
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The majority have stayed away from getting into cash handling.
Mutual fund is an investment vehicle that is made up of a pool of funds collected from many investors for the purpose of investing in securities such as stocks, bonds, money market instruments and similar assets.
India's mutual fund (MF) industry had barely any retail footprint when it completed 50 years in 2013. MFs had Rs 7 trillion in assets under management (AUM) in March 2013, of which around Rs 5 trillion was in institution-focused debt funds. By comparison, bank deposits in the country stood at Rs 67.5 trillion around the same time.
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The market regulator is wielding an unprecedented level of control over how mutual funds operate, delaying new launches and dictating investment strategy, frustrated insiders in the embattled industry say.
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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.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, will answer your queries.
Omkeshwar Singh, head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Transcript of the market chat held on January 12.
Diageo-USL integration pushed by at least two months; Firm likely to rework agreements and seek approval again
The Specified Undertaker of Unit Trust of India (SUUTI) is ready to pay the Rs 8,000 crore due to the 1.2 million investors in Unit Scheme 1964 (US-64), many of whom have been associated with India's oldest mutual fund scheme for 44 years.
Indian markets rose 19 per cent in the first half of this financial year, the best performance by any market during this period, globally.
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An advisory body of EPFO has rejected a proposal to engage private banks -- ICICI, Axis and HDFC Bank -- for collection of PF contribution from employers.
Franklin Templeton has won the mutual fund of the year award instituted by CNBC-TV18 and rating agency CRISIL.
In the face of tax blow, brokerages remain sanguine about the prospects of asset management companies (AMCs). A sharp correction in the shares of AMCs over the past three months factors in most of the negatives and turned valuations attractive, observe analysts. In its latest report, Kotak Institutional Equities (KIE) has upgraded HDFC AMC to 'add' (from 'reduce') and reprised 'add' and 'buy' ratings on the rest of the listed AMCs - Nippon, UTI, and Aditya Birla Sun Life.
Chief Investment Officer of Prudential ICICI, Nilesh Shah discusses the current situation of the market in terms of inflows, valuations and the general consensus on the market.
Move over equity markets, mutual funds and bonds. Investors across India are these days picking up and trading in the latest investment avenue in town: the Gold Exchange Traded Funds.
'We have seen a host of businesses across sectors generate economic value and wealth for investors.'
Fund houses' tie-ups with the postal department for marketing their schemes through post offices are yet to take off in a bigger way.
The combined assets under management of the 32 fund houses in the country fell to Rs 5,49,114.82 crore (Rs 5,491.14 billion) in January, against Rs 5,49,942.02 crore (Rs 5,499.42 billion) at the end of December, 2007, latest data available on the website of Association of Mutual Funds in India show.
Our advice: exercise caution and don't get carried away by the exuberance in the markets. \n\n\n\n
UTI, India's first mutual fund, has been on the backfoot in a competitive marketplace. The fightback looks not just at new products, but new processes and investor services
If the FM can levy education cess to meet the cost of education, then why not defense cess for defense cost, health cess, food cess, and so on. What are the tax collections meant for, asks Kanu H Doshi, partner of Kanu Doshi Associates, chartered accountants, Mumbai.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
While stocks are at cheap valuations, the volatility can be unnerving.
Insurance firms have designed amazing retirment plans to lure more customers.
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