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When To Sell A Mutual Fund?
September 5th, 2011 
Malvika 
Posted in Mutual Funds, Personal Finance 
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August 23rd, 2011 Tushar Mathur Rahul is working for a mutual fund house. They have recently came out with an NFO (new fund offer). The day on which the fund house announced its maiden NAV (net asset value), he received lot of calls from investors asking why the NAV is at below par.
Posted in Mutual Funds Tags: Asset Value, Demand And Supply, Equity Fund, Equity Funds, Fund Management, Fund Offerings, Initial Public Offering, Investors, Misconceptions, mutual fund, Mutual Funds, Myth Buster, Nav, Par Value, Performance Track, Rahul, Stock, Stocks Comments OffMutual Funds Mythbuster
March 19th, 2011 Tushar Mathur Rahul is working for a mutual fund house. They have recently came out with an NFO (new fund offer). The day on which the fund house announced its maiden NAV (net asset value), he received lot of calls from investors asking why the NAV is at below par.
Posted in Mutual Funds Tags: Asset Value, Demand And Supply, Equity Fund, Equity Funds, Fund Management, Fund Offerings, Initial Public Offering, Investors, Misconceptions, mutual fund, Mutual Funds, Nav, Par Value, Performance Track, Rahul, Stock, Stocks Comments OffFMPs a reason of cheer for mutual funds
December 20th, 2010 Malvika As per the report in the Livemint; Mutual fund companies are seeing significant investments in fixed-income schemes, offering them a reason to cheer after months of more redemptions than sales and a continuous decline in the number of investor folios.
Posted in Mutual Funds Tags: Asset Management Ltd, Capital Asset Management, Certificates Of Deposit, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Continuous Decline, Crore, Debentures, Debt Products, Debt Schemes, Fixed Income, Fmp, Fmps, Gilts, Maturities, Redemptions, Reliance Capital, Retail Investors, Rs 2, Term Certificates Comments OffMutual Fund Industry loses 1.7 million equity folios
October 20th, 2010 Malvika Business Standard reports that in the first six month of the current financial year the mutual fund industry lose close to 1.7 million equity folios, or 4 percent retail equity investors.
Posted in Mutual Funds Tags: All Time Highs, Amfi, Apathy, Birla, Book Profits, Chief Marketing, Director Sales, Equity Investors, Equity Schemes, Exchange Traded Funds, High Net Worth Investors, Icici Prudential, Large Portion, Market Rally, Massive Decline, Mf Products, Mutual Fund Industry, Mutual Fund Providers, Redemptions, Retail Investors Comments OffMFs dig infra for big bucks
February 27th, 2010 Tushar Mathur The mutual fund industry didn’t get anything from the finance minister, but that has not stopped them from exploring how they could work out some of the other proposals in direct taxes to their advantage .
Posted in business, india, Mutual Funds, News, NRI Investing Tags: Budget Speech, Corporates, Debt Products, Direct Taxes, Finance Minister, Financial Advisers, Guaranty, Infrastructure Bonds, Institutions, Interest Rate, Investor, Lakh, Mf, Mutual Fund Industry, Private Sector, Proposals, Rs 1, Tax Arbitrage, Tax Deduction, Term Debt Comments OffMake bright, the future of your child
February 23rd, 2010 Malvika
In such a small life we want to achieve all those things which we have dreamed of and we impose our dreams on our children and wish that they also should achieve many more things in life.
Posted in Mutual Funds, NRI Investing, Personal Finance Tags: 10 Years, Benefit, Dreams, Duration, Educational Purpose, Financial Help, investing, Investments, Investor, Mature Period, Mba, Mutual Fund Investment, Other Ones, parents, Period Of Time, Possibilities, Real Estate, Rethink, Saving Bonds, Stocks Comments OffInvestment options to Save Tax under Section 80C
February 9th, 2010 Tushar Mathur No one likes paying tax and it prompts everyone to look for options that may reduce their tax liability. There are many provisions to do this and one of the most common options is the tax deductions under Section 80 C of the Income Tax Act.
Posted in business, india, Mutual Funds, News, NRI Investing Tags: Absolute Protection, Employee Provident Fund, Encashment, Fixed Deposits, Income Tax Act, Interest Income, Investment Avenues, Investment options, Kid On The Block, Little Knowledge, Maximum Limit, National Savings, New Kid On The Block, Nsc, Public Provident Fund, Tax Deduction, Tax Deductions, Tax Liability, Taxable Income, Tuition Fee Comments OffIndia Stocks Fall on Lower-Than-Expected Offers for NTPC Shares
February 9th, 2010 Tushar Mathur Indian stocks fell the most in a week, led by construction companies, on concern the government will raise less than expected from share sales to fund infrastructure and after it postponed the sale of mobile phone licenses.
Jaiprakash Associates Ltd., a builder of dams and roads, slumped to the lowest in three months after investors offered the government lower prices than forecast for equity in NTPC Ltd., a power producer.
Posted in business, india, Mutual Funds, News, NRI Investing Tags: 3g Auction, Auction Delay, Bombay Stock Exchange, Dlf Ltd India, Exchange Web, Fiscal Deficit, India Stocks, Indian Stocks, Karvy Stock Broking Ltd, Mirchandani, National Stock Exchange, Ntpc Ltd, Ntpc Share, Power Generator, Power Producer, Rupees, Sensitive Index, Share Sales, Stock Broking, Sustainable Basis Comments OffRBI Call on Debt Funds to Hurt Indian Funds
February 9th, 2010 Tushar Mathur Heightened scrutiny by India’s central bank on debt investments by the country’s banks will take a toll on the domestic mutual fund industry’s asset growth, with banks set to shrink their fund holdings.
In recent weeks, the Reserve Bank of India has ratcheted up its rhetoric on the potential risk posed by the so-called circular trade between banks and mutual funds, where banks invest excess cash in debt funds while fund houses use a large portion of these debt fund proceeds to invest in banks’ certificate of deposits.
The central bank, in a private note issued to banks has asked banks to act as “self regulators” on their debt fund investments, three people familiar with the matter had told Dow Jones Newswires in mid-December.
Certificates of deposits are short-term instruments used by banks to raise funds.
While banks generally cut their mutual fund assets exposure at the end of each quarter to meet capital adequacy requirements, industry experts expect future data to show that the RBI’s moral suasion is having some impact.
Mutual fund assets in the quarter ended Dec.
Posted in business, india, Mutual Funds, News, NRI Investing Tags: Asset Growth, Bank Investments, Bank Of India, Capital Adequacy, Certificate Of Deposits, Certificates Of Deposits, Debt Fund, Debt Funds, Debt Investments, Dow Jones, Dow Jones Newswires, Excess Cash, Fund Investments, Money Market Funds, Moral Suasion, Mutual Fund Assets, Private Note, Reserve Bank of India, Rupees, Sinha Comments OffIndia Inc may lose tax cover on MF investments
January 23rd, 2010 Tushar Mathur Capital markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) wants the government to scrap tax benefits for corporates investing in mutual funds (MFs), a proposal, if accepted by the government, could deal a body blow to local asset management companies and other firms.
The regulator has also proposed to the government that the securities transaction tax, or STT, which is levied on buying or selling of stocks and on derivatives trade, should be cut by one-third and that a uniform stamp duty be levied and collected by a central agency.
These proposals have been forwarded to the finance ministry, in the run-up to the Budget, said a person with the knowledge of the proposal.
Posted in business, india, Mutual Funds, News, NRI Investing Tags: Asset Management Companies, Assets Under Management, Bank Of India, Body Blow, Capital Markets, Corporate Treasuries, Corporates, Debt Schemes, Exchange Board, Finance Ministry, India Inc, Institutional Funds, Investing In Mutual Funds, Lakh, Outflow, Reserve Bank of India, Sebi, Securities And Exchange Board Of India, Stamp Duty, Transaction Tax Comments OffTop 10 Mutual Funds in India
December 3rd, 2009 Tushar Mathur India can be an investors paradise or and investors nightmare. India was a region hit hard by the economic downturn of the last couple of years but has been bouncing back nicely from the nearly 53% lose taken last year.
Posted in business, india, Mutual Funds, News, NRI Investing Tags: Canadian Insurer, Capital Asset Management, Economic Downturn, Financial Services Group, Franklin Resources Inc, Franklin Templeton, Icici Prudential, India Fund, India India, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd, Prudential Asset Management, Prudential Plc, Punjab National Bank, Reliance Capital, Standard Life Investments, Start Ups, State Bank Of India, Tata Group, Templeton Asset Management Comments OffUTI to be first on NSE mutual fund platform
December 3rd, 2009 Tushar Mathur Around 30 of the 100 schemes of UTI Mutual Fund will be listed on the new NSE Mutual Fund platform.
The liquid schemes will not be included among them, said a top UTI official.
For the fund industry, it will be a new technology-driven initiative when UTI MF lists its schemes on Monday on NSE’s new platform – the Mutual Fund Service System (MFSS).
In November 2000 a similar initiative by the Association of Mutual Funds in India made it possible for Indian funds to declare their NAVs on a common platform.
BSE to join soon
Around 10 mutual funds are expected to join NSE’s platform within a week’s time, an NSE official said.
Posted in business, india, Mutual Funds, News, NRI Investing Tags: Bank Account Details, Business Day, Business Investor, Driven Initiative, Launch, Mf, Mfss, mutual fund, Mutual Funds, Nav, Navs, New Technology, Nse, Personal Identification Number, Redemption, Spokesperson, Telecom Network, Transaction Facility, Transaction Platform, UTI Comments OffNow you could trade Mutual Funds on NSE
December 3rd, 2009 Tushar Mathur Sounds interesting after ETF’s now it the time for Mutual Funds to get traded.
The National Stock Exchange on Tuesday announced the introduction of mutual fund service system, a platform on which mutual fund units will be traded through the stock exchange infrastructure, from November 30.
The Bombay Stock Exchange is also developing a similar platform with Central Depository Services.
All trading members of the exchange who are registered with the Association of Mutual Funds of India as mutual fund advisors and who have signed up with specific AMCs will be eligible to participate in MFSS.
Posted in business, india, Mutual Funds, News, NRI Investing Tags: Amcs, Bombay Stock Exchange, Depository Services, Etf, india, Infrastructure, Investors, Mf, Mfss, Modes, Mutual Fund Units, Mutual Funds, National Stock Exchange, Nse, participants, Redemption Requests, Sounds, Telecom Network, Timelines, Volatility Comments OffAxis Mutual Fund launches its first equity fund
November 26th, 2009 Tushar Mathur Axis Bank-promoted Axis Mutual Fund has launched its first equity fund, Axis Equity Fund, a diversified equity fund benchmarked to the S&P CNX Nifty.
“We aim to offer total investment solutions to consumers and not just individual products.
Posted in business, india, Mutual Funds, News, NRI Investing Tags: Allotment, Anand, Axis Bank, Crore, Debt Schemes, December 8, Diversified Equity Funds, Equity Fund, First Equity, Indian Cities, Individual Products, Investment Option, Investment Plans, Investment Solutions, Minimum Lump Sum, mutual fund, November 11, One Per Cent, Rajiv, Systematic Investment Comments Off
