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The industry seeks a 12.5 tax rate on long-term capital gains (LTCG) for redeeming debt mutual fund units held over a year, aligning it with the rate applicable to listed bonds

Fund house expects similar returns from gold, debt

Passive MF schemes, especially those tracking the Nifty 50 and Sensex, will need to offload their holdings in ITC Hotels as the stock will be excluded from these indices

Angel One, Unifi set to launch first fund this year; four more likely to secure licence this year

These midcap stocks that have earned an upgrade include CG Power, Rail Vikas Nigam, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, Polycab India, Indus Towers, Cummins India and Info Edge

MFs have the largest institutional buyers in the equity market in two of the last three years - 2022 and 2024. In 2023, they were only slightly behind foreign institutional investors (FIIs)

Fund seeks to generate long-term capital appreciation by investing in equity and equity-related instruments

More number of funds likely to beat the benchmark this year vis-a-vis 2023

Says caution is warranted for segments with stretched valuations and peaking business cycles, such as engineering and capital goods or automotive

Regulator puts an end to switching of funds by distributors for higher NFO commissions

The mutual fund investment tracing and retrieval assistant, or MITRA, platform will help trace inactive and unclaimed folios, thereby preventing potential misuse

Most of the MF investments in the three companies (Swiggy, Zomato and NTPC) are likely to have happened in the primary market, with mutual funds being major investors during the IPO anchor allotments

Canara Robeco AMC was established in 1993 and was initially known as Canbank Mutual Fund

Investors can purchase direct plans directly on MF websites and online investment platforms

As per the circular, Enviro Infra Engineers has allotted over 1.31 crore equity shares to 22 funds at Rs 148 apiece, which is also the upper end of the price band

The scheme aims to invest in arbitrage opportunities between spot and futures prices of traded equities and within derivatives. If none are available, the Fund Manager may invest in debt and money mar

Fund plans to invest 95-100% of its assets in fixed-income instruments that mirror the CRISIL-IBX AAA Financial Services - Sep 2027 Index

Last month, fund houses introduced 21 new equity schemes, with another five launches already lined up for November

Equity schemes continue to witness net inflows, driven by SIPs

The market regulator had issued the notification on the inclusion of MF units under PIT in November 2022, but it is being made effective now after consultation with industry bodies and members