Mutual Fund

Sebi´s new product: MF´s efficiency, PMS´ control

The New Product (earlier called New Asset Class) approved by SEBI Board, is excellent for investors comfortable with high risk investments. It will also allow Long short strategies and is designed to wean investors away from unregulated products. Whilst the New Product will do that, the operational ease and tax benefits of the MF structure will most probably also result in the New Product eating into the existing Rs. 2 lakh crore PMS market. If the fund manager is offering a choice to the investor between the two , there is no doubt the investor will choose the New Product.

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Evaluate funds on rolling returns over long term

Momentum funds have become the flavour of the season with their outsized “extra” returns over the already high returns provided by the market over the last one year. Harsh’s article in the Business Standard highlighting how they are not the absolute certainty they are made out to be. There is a need to take a conscious decision on the tradeoffs involved while evaluating investments in such factor funds.

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A plea to provide more mutual fund data

In a race between the top runners of US & the Soviet Union, the US runner beat his Soviet counterpart. “Soviet finishes second, US runner finishes second last” was the spin given by the Soviet media. This mythical story on the cold war era propoganda illustrates the importance of data availbility and transparency in reducing the spread of misleading conclusions. The Indian Mutual fund industry has a reputation for setting up global standards in transparency. Harsh’s article in Business Standard on how even more transparency in the outlined areas will enhance this reputation further.

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