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Moneylife Digital Team 21 September 2010
After sneering at index funds for years together, fund companies are rushing to join the club Mutual fund companies in India have distinctly changed their stance towards passive investing, of late. Having built a business model based on active portfolio management for years, companies are now...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 September 2010
A year on, some beleaguered investors in Osian Art Fund still await the first tranche of payment! When wealth managers (mostly of foreign banks) sell alternative investment products like art funds to their ‘clients’, they surely do not expect a situation where even the return of the principal...

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Sanket Dhanorkar 18 September 2010
Motilal Oswal’s new MOSt Shares M50 may be a winner if it avoids market-timing Fundamental indexing is a nascent concept in India, although it has caught on in global markets. Motilal Oswal Mutual Fund has introduced this concept for the first time here, with its first offering, an exchange...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 September 2010
Fidelity will launch a children’s fund. It is actually a hybrid fund — which is all the rage now Saving for a child's future is high on every parent's agenda. Since the best long term investment products are equities and equity funds, it is a valid marketing idea for fund companies to come up...

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Ravi Samalad 13 September 2010
While redemptions from equity mutual funds have reached Rs11,450 crore over the past 13 months, 10.44 lakh investor accounts have vanished since last November Commensurate with redemptions of Rs14,450 crore from equity mutual funds over the past 13 months, there has been a drop of 10.44 lakh...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 September 2010
With interest rates inching up, fixed maturity plans, now better regulated, are back in vogue Due to high inflation, the government has adopted a mildly hawkish monetary stance as a part of its exit from the monetary stimulus extended earlier. Interest rates are expected to inch up...

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Ravi Samalad 02 September 2010
HDFC Mutual Fund, Franklin Templeton and Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund’s AAUM up by Rs5,550 crore, Rs4,684 crore and Rs2,685 crore respectively while LIC Mutual Fund and Deutsche Mutual Fund emerge as major losers The 41 mutual fund (MF) houses saw their average assets under management (AAUM)...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 August 2010
The scheme was the first ETF with global exposure; however, the market response has been tepid so far Benchmark Mutual Fund's Hang Seng BeES or Hang Seng Benchmark Exchange Traded Scheme launched in March this year is yet to become popular. It is the first foreign index based exchange-traded...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 August 2010
The fund will closely track the stocks represented in the S&P CNX Nifty; but ETF volumes have remained on the lower side More and more fund companies are launching passive mutual funds, also called index funds. Among the passive fund products, after launching index funds which are supposed to...

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Ravi Samalad 26 August 2010
The market seems poised for a correction; small-cap stocks may not be a good bet Reliance Mutual Fund has floated a new fund offer (NFO) called 'Reliance Small Cap Fund' which opens for subscription today. The NFO closes on 9 September 2010. The scheme aims to generate long-term capital...

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Mutual Fund Research Desk 26 August 2010
Through varying market climates, here are 14 equity schemes that have done well since 2003, according to our Mutual Fund Research Desk. An annual feature, based on our proprietary formula Identifying the right equity mutual fund, from among the hordes of offerings from various fund...

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Because your interests are different from that of the fund companies Asset management companies (AMCs), as mutual fund companies are called, are in the business of gathering more and more assets under management (AUM) because they get a fixed fee on the funds they manage. That is why new fund...

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Indian stock markets have been trading in a tight range during the past year. Between 21 July 2009 and 21 July 2010, the Sensex managed to post gains of 19%. How has the plethora of equity diversified funds in the market fared during this period? Contrary to the usual story of more than half...

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How much retail market penetration has the mutual fund (MF) industry achieved? What is the investment horizon of retail investors? What have been the returns from new fund offers (NFOs)? Who has gained and lost after the market regulator banned entry-loads in August 2008? All this while, there...

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Ravi Samalad 24 August 2010
The regulator wants to make sure that fund houses are not distributing commissions from investors’ pockets Market watchdog Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has once again turned the heat on mutual fund distributors. The regulator has sought details of commissions paid out to...

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S Rodrigues 24 August 2010
The IFA (Independent/Individual Financial Advisor) is on life support — suspected dead — and the prime suspect is the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). The acronym is alternatively called in a parallel world, the Systematic Elimination of Brokers and Intermediaries Now the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 August 2010
The move might just result in the already beleaguered industry having to shoulder additional costs The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) today asked all fund houses to facilitate smoother shift of mutual fund units between two demat accounts.  The National Stock Exchange (NSE)...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 August 2010
Asset management companies (AMCs) have optimistically launched infrastructure funds aiming to gain from India's ambitious infrastructure plans. However, the returns have not been very encouraging. Currently there are 17 infrastructure funds in the market. We analysed the performance of these 17...

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Amritha Pillay 17 August 2010
The fund’s head admits that there have been some bottlenecks in release of complete payments, but is confident that all investors will be paid in full Even after a period of one year, there are still some investors who await their first tranche repayments for investments made in the Osian Art...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 August 2010
Despite its moniker, the fund may do better by switching between sectors. But that makes it an equity diversified fund Baroda Pioneer Mutual Fund has filed its draft offer document with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to launch an open-ended 'Baroda Pioneer Sector Focus Fund'....

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