He has worked in the Indian mutual fund industry for more than 15 years. He picks tomorrows blue-chip stocks from todays numerous mid-cap companies. Investment philosophy: He hitched his fund wagon to the theme of consumption and food inflation more than two years ago and his top picks too have remained the same over that period. Other interests: Stays in Mumbai and is slightly partial to Totos, that classic of...
01:09 PM, Jan 17, 2012
After a lacklustre performance in the last three years in the equity category, HSBC Mutual Fund is gearing up for some serious changes. Tushar Pradhan, the chief investment officer (CIO) of HSBC Mutual Fund, has been given the responsibility to manage the HSBC Equity Fund along with three other equity funds. His task is to make HSBC Equity one of the best performing funds in the country. In 2003, HSBC...
02:12 PM, Nov 01, 2011
Mumbai: Corporate giant Reliance Industries' Chief Mukesh Ambani on Friday announced that the company would become debt-free in the current financial year. Announcing a bullish stance on the company's financial position, the Chairman and MD said that RIL would become debt-free on a net basis in the current 2011-12 fiscal. RIL had outstanding debt of Rs 67,397 crore ($ 15.1 billion) as of March 31, 2011, as against Rs 62,495...
12:00 PM, Jun 03, 2011
The floodgates might just have opened for the Indian mutual fund industry. Indian markets have always been considered to be very attractive for investors in developed markets, but mutual funds in India were never allowed to tap retail investors from abroad. Hence, mutual funds used the Mauritius route to attract international investors into their portfolio management schemes (PMS) or offshore funds. This has often been considered cumbersome and the target...
02:41 PM, Mar 19, 2011
Mumbai: Anil Ambani group firm Reliance Mutual Fund today launched a new Gold Savings Fund, a first-of-its-kind investment scheme focused on gold, to tap a market that it expects to become bigger than even equity mutual funds. The new fund, which is different from gold ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) that require subscribers to have a demat account, will also offer investors the option to invest as little as Rs 100...
04:22 PM, Feb 09, 2011
Mutual fund managers will scratch their heads when they look at the graphic on this page. The retail investor confused them in 2010. Fund managers used to view retail investors as simplistic individuals who would follow the herd. When the market would rise, the net inflow of funds would rise. When the market fell, the result would be a net outflow. But, since January 2010, net inflows were negative when...
03:11 PM, Jan 28, 2011
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06:01 PM, Jun 11, 2009
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