Monday, February 18, 2019


NFONEST
February2019

NFOs of various hues  adorn the February 2019 NFONEST.

SBI Debt Fund Series C 44
Opens: February 14, 2019
Closes: February 20, 2019

SBI Mutual Fund has launched the SBI Debt Fund – Series C 44, a close ended capital protection oriented scheme that matures 1175 days from the date of allotment. The scheme endeavours to provide regular income and capital growth with limited interest rate risk to the investors through investments in a portfolio comprising of debt instruments such as government securities, PSU and corporate bonds and money market instruments maturing on or before the maturity of the scheme. The scheme’s performance will be benchmarked against CRISIL Medium Term Debt Index and its fund manager is Ms. Ranjana Gupta.

ICICI Prudential Retirement Fund
Opens: February 7, 2019
Closes: February 21, 2019

ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund has launched ICICI Prudential Retirement Fund, an open ended solution oriented scheme having a lock-in of 5 years or till retirement age (whichever is earlier). The investment objective of the scheme is to provide capital appreciation and income to the investors which will help to achieve retirement goals by investing in a mix of securities comprising of equity, equity related instruments, fixed income securities and other securities. Investment objectives of the four investment plans under the scheme are as given below:
Pure Equity Plan: To generate long-term capital appreciation and income generation to investors from a portfolio that is predominantly invested in equity and equity related securities (at least 80%).
Hybrid Aggressive Plan: An open ended hybrid scheme predominantly investing in equity and equity related securities to generate capital appreciation. The scheme may also invest in debt; gold/gold ETF/units of REITs & InvITs and such other asset classes as may be permitted from time to time for income generation / wealth creation.
Hybrid Conservative Plan: To generate regular income through investments predominantly in debt and money market instruments (at least 70%). The Scheme also seeks to generate long term capital appreciation from the portion of equity investments under the Scheme (at least 5%).
Pure Debt Plan: To generate income through investing in a range of debt and money market instruments of various duration while maintaining the optimum balance of yield, safety and liquidity.
The benchmarks of the four investment plans of the ICICI Prudential Retirement Fund are as follows:
Pure Equity Plan: NIFTY 500 Index
Hybrid Aggressive Plan: CRISIL Hybrid 35+65 - Aggressive Index
Hybrid Conservative Plan: NIFTY 50 Hybrid Composite Debt 15:85 Index
Pure Debt Scheme: NIFTY Composite Debt Index
Mrinal Singh and Ashwin Jain will manage the equity portion while Manish Banthia and Anuj Tagra will manage the debt portion of the scheme. In addition, Priyanka Kandelwal will be looking after the overseas investment for the fund.

IDBI Healthcare Fund
Opens: February 8, 2019
Closes: February 22, 2019

IDBI Mutual Fund has launched IDBI Healthcare Fund, an open-ended sectoral equity scheme. The investment objective of the scheme is to achieve capital appreciation by predominantly (minimum 80% of the portfolio) investing in companies engaged in healthcare and allied sectors. The scheme may invest up to 50% of net assets of scheme in equity derivative instruments. Investment in derivatives shall be for hedging, portfolio balancing and such other purposes as may be permitted from time to time. The scheme will not invest in securitized debt/ ADRs/GDRs, foreign securities. The scheme may also enter into repurchase (repo) agreement and reverse repurchase agreement in government securities held by it as per the guidelines and regulations applicable to such transactions. The scheme will not invest in repo in corporate Debt Securities. Ms. Uma Venkatraman will manage the scheme. S&P BSE Healthcare - Total Return Index (TRI) will be the scheme’s benchmark.

Invesco India Equity Savings Fund
Opens: February 14, 2018
Closes: February 28, 2018

Invesco Mutual Fund has launched the Invesco India Equity Savings Fund, a close ended capital protection oriented scheme. The investment objective of the scheme is to generate capital appreciation and income by investing in equity and equity related instruments, arbitrage opportunities and fixed income instruments (including debt, government securities and money market instruments). The scheme’s performance will be benchmarked against NIFTY Equity Savings Index and its fund managers are Mr. Taher Badshah, Mr. Amit Ganatra and Mr. Krishna Cheemalapati.

BNP Paribas Dynamic Equity Fund
Opens: February 14, 2018
Closes: February 28, 2018

BNP Paribas Mutual Fund has launched a new fund named as BNP Paribas Dynamic Equity Fund, an open ended Dynamic Asset Allocation Fund. The primary investment objective of the scheme is to provide capital appreciation by dynamically managing the portfolio of equity and equity related instruments (including arbitrage exposure), and fixed income instruments. The scheme would allocate 65%-100% of assets to equity and equity related instruments including derivatives with high risk profile and upto 35% of assets would be allocated to debt instruments & money market instruments (including cash and money at call) with low to medium risk profile and invest upto 10% of assets in units issued by REITs & InvITs with medium to high risk profile. Benchmark Index for the scheme is CRISIL Hybrid 35+65 - Aggressive Index. The fund managers of the scheme are Karthikraj Lakshmanan and Abhijeet Dey (for equity portion) and Mayank Prakash (for debt portion).

SBI Capital Protection Oriented Fund – Series A (Plan 1)
Opens: February 18, 2019
Closes: February 28, 2019

SBI Mutual Fund has launched the SBI Capital Protection Oriented Fund-Series A (Plan 1), a close ended capital protection oriented scheme. The investment objective of the scheme is to protect the capital by investing in high quality fixed income securities that are maturing on or before the maturity of the scheme as the primary objective and generate capital appreciation by investing in equity and equity related instruments as a secondary objective. The scheme is oriented towards protection of capital and not with guaranteed returns. The scheme’s performance will be benchmarked against CRISIL Hybrid 85+15-Conservative Index and its fund managers are Rajeev Radhakrishnan and Ruchit Mehta.

Reliance Junior BeES FoF
Opens: February 18, 2018
Closes: February 28, 2018

Reliance Mutual Fund has launched the Reliance Junior BeES FoF, an open ended fund of funds scheme. The investment objective of the scheme is to provide returns that closely correspond to returns provided by Reliance ETF Junior BeES by investing in units of Reliance ETF Junior BeES. The scheme aims to provide returns that closely correspond to the returns of securities as represented by the Nifty Next 50 Index, subject to tracking error. It will invest at least 90% of its total assets in the stocks of its corresponding underlying index. The scheme’s performance will be benchmarked against Nifty Next 50 (TRI) Index and its fund manager is Mehul Dama.

Canara Robeco Capital Protection Oriented Fund – Series 10
Opens: February 15, 2018
Closes: March 1, 2018

SBI Mutual Fund has launched Canara Robeco Capital Protection Oriented Fund – Series 10, a closed end fund. The scheme seeks capital protection by investing in high quality fixed income securities maturing on or before the maturity of the scheme and seeking capital appreciation by investing in equity and equity related instruments. The scheme will be benchmarked against CRISIL Hybrid 85+15 Conservative. The scheme will be managed by Mr. Cheenu Gupta and Ms. Suman Prasad.

Kotak Floating Rate Fund, DHFL Pramerica Overnight Fund, HSBC Large and Midcap Equity Fund, Tata Overnight Fund, Quantum Swachh India ESG Equity Fund, Indiabulls Banking and PSU Debt Fund, HSBC Overnight Fund, Baroda Equity Savings Fund, Kotak International REIT Fund, Motilal Oswal Large and Midcap Fund and Tata Banking & PSU Debt Fund are expected to be launched in the coming months.


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