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A rally in India’s sovereign bonds, fueled by mutual funds and overseas investors has left most Mumbai traders baffled at their sudden fortune. Yields dropped across the curve last week, with those on the benchmark 10-year bond declining ten basis points, the biggest weekly drop since April. Government debt auctions are finding buyers again, after a spate of earlier sales were canceled or rescued by underwriters. A rally in India’s sovereign bonds, fueled by mutual funds and overseas investors after weeks of indifference, has left most Mumbai traders baffled at their sudden fortune. Mutual funds turned net buyers with purchases of 151 billion rupees ($2.1 billion) of debt over the last 10 trading days. Read more

Shares of Bajaj Finserv hit a new high of Rs 16,582, up 8 per cent on the BSE in the intra-day trade on Tuesday, after the company said it has received an in-principle approval from Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) for sponsoring a mutual fund. The company would also be setting an Asset Management Company (AMC).“Accordingly, the company would be setting up an Asset Management Company (AMC) and the Trustee Company, directly or indirectly i.e., itself or through its subsidiary in accordance with applicable SEBI Regulations and other applicable laws," Bajaj Finserv said in an exchange filing. The market-capitalisation (m-cap) of Bajaj Finserv is now more than Rs 2.6 lakh crore, while that of Bajaj Finance breached the Rs 4.2-lakh crore mark. Bajaj Finserv is focused on lending, asset management, wealth management and insurance services. Read more

SBI Mutual Fund, India’s largest mutual fund asset manager, has waved the red flag on the country’s stock market. The asset manager, which manages assets worth more than Rs 5 lakh crore, is concerned over the prospects of returns from the Indian equities going ahead, because of the euphoria on display in the primary market and among retail investors. “Primary market activity is flashing warning signs. Such level of activity is normally associated with euphoria (in the market),” Dinesh Balachandran, fund manager at SBI Mutual Fund said at the launch of the SBI Balanced Advantage Fund yesterday(11th August 2021). Read more

Shares of IRB Infrastructure rallied 7 per cent and hit a 52-week high of Rs 139.40, ron the National Stock Exchange (NSE) in intra-day trade on Thursday, extending its upward movement after the HDFC Mutual Fund acquired more than 1 per cent stake in the company via open market. In the past eight trading days, the stock of the road & highways construction company has soared 31 per cent from the level of Rs 106.25, hit on May 28, 2021. On May 31, 2021, HDFC Mutual Fund bought 2.48 million shares, representing 0.71 per cent of the total equity of IRB Infra, at price of Rs 111 per cent via bulk deal on the NSE, the exchange data shows. The mutual funds, further on June 1, 2021, purchased additional 2.46 million shares, or 0.70 per cent stake in the company, at the price of Rs 111.34 per share, the bulk deal data shows. Read more

Equity mutual funds witnessed a net inflow of over Rs 10,000 crore in May, making it the third consecutive monthly infusion. This is a 14-month high i.e. highest since March 2020. This was way higher than Rs 3,437 crore net inflow seen in April and Rs 9,115 crore in March Prior to this, equity schemes had consistently witnessed outflow for eight straight months from July 2020 to February 2021. On the other hand, investors pulled out Rs 44,512 crore from debt mutual funds last month after infusing over Rs 1 lakh crore in April. Overall, the mutual fund industry witnessed an outflow of Rs 38,602 across all segments during the period under review, compared to an inflow of Rs 92,906 crore in April. As per the data, inflow from equity and equity-linked open-ended schemes was at Rs 10,083 crore in May. Read more

In February Equity mutual funds witnessed an outflow of Rs 10,468 crore making it the eighth consecutive monthly withdrawal. The Flexi cap category accounted for most of the outflow. Overall, the mutual fund industry witnessed a net outflow of Rs 1,843 crore across all segments during the period under review, compared to Rs 35,586 crore in January. Despite the outflow, asset under management (AUM) of the mutual fund industry rose to Rs 31.64lakh crore in February-end from Rs 30.5 lakh crore in January-end. As per the data, the outflow from equity and equity-linked open-ended schemes was at Rs 10,468 crore in February compared to Rs 9,253 crore in January. Barring multi-cap, large & mid-cap and focussed fund categories, all the equity schemes have seen outflow last month. The newly created Flexi cap category saw a maximum outflow of Rs 10,431 crore. Read more

The Supreme Court today(12th Feb.2021) upheld the validity of the e-voting process for winding up of six mutual fund schemes of Franklin Templeton and said disbursal of funds to unitholders will continue. A bench of justices S A Nazeer and Sanjiv Khanna, while rejecting the opposition by some unitholders to the e-voting process, said disbursal of funds has to be done as per the earlier order of the apex court. The top court had on February 2 ordered that Rs 9,122 crore be disbursed within three weeks to the unitholders of Franklin Templeton's six mutual fund schemes which are proposed to be wound up. It had said that disbursal of money would be done in proportion to unitholders' interest in the assets. Earlier, the apex court had asked the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to appoint an observer for overseeing the e-voting process. Read more

Despite a strong rally in the market, investors have pulled out money from mutual funds for the seventh straight month in January. According to the recent data by the Association of Mutual Funds in India (Amfi), equity mutual funds have witnessed net outflows of Rs 9,253 crore last month, taking the total outflows to Rs 42,200 crore since July. While the pace of outflows has peaked since November, when investors had redeemed investments worth Rs 12,917 crore, the phenomenon continues on Dalal Street. This is when BSE barometer Sensex has rallied 32 percent between July 2020 and January 2021. Some might argue that a sharp rally in the markets is what has persuaded investors to take money off the table and re-enter at a more opportune time, but analysts don't believe the reason to be this straight forward. Analysts believe lack of a decent performance by mutual funds over the last 3-4 years is one crucial factor why investors are fleeing from equity funds. Read more

SEBI sees no merit in increasing the 10 percent investment cap on a single stock for actively-managed mutual fund (MF) schemes. “The 10 percent cap is meant for diversification cap. Just because some scrip is outperforming doesn’t mean you raise the ceiling. That will be self re-enforcing that scrip has moved up and you are allowing higher investment in the same scrip. That doesn’t sound very logical. For the sake of diversification, the 10 percent ceiling is something which stays,” said Ajay Tyagi, chairman, Sebi while addressing the media at a market summit organised by industry body CII.

Financial stocks including Axis Bank, ICICI Bank, and IndusInd Bank surged up to 6 percent on the BSE today (27th April 2020) after RBI announced a Special Liquidity Facility (SLF) for Mutual Funds worth Rs 50,000 crore. "Under the SLF-MF, the RBI shall conduct repo operations of 90 days tenor at the fixed repo rate. The SLF-MF is on-tap and open-ended, and banks can submit their bids to avail funding on any day from Monday to Friday," the RBI said in a statement. Funds availed under the SLF-MF shall be used by banks exclusively for meeting the liquidity requirements of MFs by (1) extending loans, and (2) undertaking the outright purchase of and/or repos against the collateral of investment-grade corporate bonds, commercial papers (CPs), debentures and certificates of Deposit (CDs) held by MFs, it added.

Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund has decided to wind up six debt mutual fund schemes. The six schemes are Franklin India Low Duration Fund, Franklin India Dynamic Accrual Fund, Franklin India Credit Risk Fund, Franklin India Short Term Income Plan, Franklin India Ultra Short Bond Fund and Franklin India Income Opportunities Fund. These schemes manage assets worth Rs 26,000 crore. “Significantly reduced liquidity in the Indian bond markets for most debt securities and unprecedented levels of redemptions following the COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown have compelled us to take this decision,” said Sanjay Sapre, president, Franklin Templeton India. Read more

SBI Mutual Fund, went all out to buy shares of corporate banks in March, as valuations came down to historic lows amid the market mayhem. The biggest addition to the portfolio in March was the State Bank of India, as the money manager bought 3.62 crore shares of the country’s largest lender. SBI MF also added 2.77 crore shares of ICICI Bank, 1.84 crore shares of Axis Bank and 1.55 crore shares of HDFC Bank. SBI MF’s other major buys included 2.63 crore shares of Indian Oil, 2.62 crore shares of ITC, 1.72 crore shares of GAIL, 1.38 crore shares of NTPC and Coal India each. Energy stocks have seen a lot of activity recently after crude oil prices crashed to nearly 30-year lows due to price war among global oil producers.