MFs mix debt and arbitrage to offer tax advantageThese schemes will now invest a little less than 65% of their corpus in fixed income while the balance will be in arbitrage-a risk-free str...
18 Mar, 2025, 05.36 AM IST
Best arbitrage mutual funds to invest in January 2025Arbitrage funds are taxed like equity mutual funds. This means they qualify for long term capital gains tax of 12.5% if investments are hel...
16 Jan, 2025, 09.39 AM IST
Equity-oriented hybrid mutual funds offer up to 2% return in November. Have you invested in any?Equity-oriented hybrid funds delivered up to 22% returns in November 2024. PGIM India Hybrid Equity Fund led with 2.20%, while 16 schemes p...
01 Dec, 2024, 11.20 AM IST
These 36 equity mutual funds never gave negative annual returns in 10 years of Modi governmentETMutualFunds analysed equity schemes spanning diverse categories, tracking performance from 2014 to 2023 under the Modi government. Notabl...
02 Jun, 2024, 11.29 AM IST
2 mutual fund schemes which offer tax efficiency plus debt-MF like returnsAlternative to debt mutual funds: From FY 2023-24 (April 1, 2023), the rules for taxation for debt mutual funds were revised. The governmen...
29 Jan, 2024, 11.50 AM IST
Arbitrage MFs' record run may hit poll bump, experts favour cautionArbitrage funds have started yielding better returns amid the bullish market sentiment. "In the past three years, returns from these scheme...
10 Jan, 2024, 06.18 AM IST
ETMarkets Smart Talk: Debt MFs AMC may also look to innovate or modify their offerings post withdrawal of LTCG benefitOne major event that investors should be tracking is the earnings of companies for Q4 FY23. This could provide insight into how companies a...
03 Apr, 2023, 08.25 AM IST
MF-FD symmetry, a Leg-up for tax parityFrom a risk management perspective, however, an overemphasis on bank lending to companies increases concentration in the system that can be...
27 Mar, 2023, 12.08 AM IST
Near-term loss in arbitrage schemes likely: MFsArbitrage schemes make money when stock futures trade above the cash-market price.
04 Jun, 2020, 10.57 AM IST
ET in the classroom: Taxation in a mutual fundLiquid funds, income funds, gilt funds, capital protection schemes are classified as debt-oriented schemes for taxation.
04 Aug, 2016, 12.01 PM IST
Working the budget: Before India goes business as unusual, fix patchwork policiesModi’s rhetoric of 'minimum government, maximum governance' promised to upend the superstructure. This meant giving the short shrift to bus...
02 Aug, 2014, 08.52 AM IST
Finance Ministry may tweak Budget 2014 proposal to double tax on debt mutual fundsFinance Ministry, could extend lower tax rate of 10 per cent to those investors who had redeemed their holding on or before July 10.
20 Jul, 2014, 12.07 PM IST
- Tax investors, not companies
SEBI, RBI want to stop cos and banks from putting their money in MFs.
19 Jan, 2010, 06.07 AM IST
- Liquid MFs find favour with banks
Confidence is slowly returning to the money market, but bankers prefer to keep their fingers crossed. After a long time, banks have resumed...
11 Nov, 2008, 12.28 AM IST
- MFs make hay as brokers fund IPOs
Brokerages raising money through NCDs to fund retail and high net worth investors for subscribing to IPOs. Neyveli Lignite | Future Capital...
14 Jan, 2008, 03.17 PM IST
- StanChart’s the latest to join the arbitrage funds brigade
Standard Chartered Mutual Fund (SCMF) on Tuesday launched an open-ended equity scheme, Arbitrage Fund, which seeks to capitalise on the pri...
15 Nov, 2006, 12.03 AM IST
- Now, derivatives arbitrage funds take on fixed deposits
Banks, sweating to mop-up their deposits from conservative investors, have a new adversary. In addition to capital protected funds and fixe...
10 Nov, 2006, 01.07 AM IST