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Arun Sundaresan, Head - ETF, Nippon India Mutual Fund talks about smart beta strategies, Nippon India Equal Weight Index Fund and more. The NFO Nippon India Nifty 500 Equal Weight opens on August 21 and closes on September 04.

A high number of schemes in the floater fund category managed to outperform the benchmark over the past one year.

A report by Motilal Oswal Private Wealth recommends a staggered investment strategy across market caps for the next 6-12 months.

Sanjay Bembalkar, Co-Head, Equities, Union MF believes that scarcity assets derive their value from scarcity like bullion, gold, silver, vintage cars and stamps whereas efficiency assets derive value from cash flows like equity and debt. He also talks about Union Multi Asset Fund, which is currently open for subscription and closes on September 3.

The two-year postgraduate program in financial planning will commence later this year.

Overall, they manage Rs. 3.52 lakh crore, which is 14% of the total direct assets of the MF industry.

Such a count was 2.43 lakh in July 2023.

Amarjeet Singh, Whole Time Member, SEBI asked fund houses to segregate their other business activities like PMS and advisory from mutual funds.

Old venture capital funds can migrate to the existing AIF regulations by July 19, 2025.

SEBI releases Cyber Security and Cyber Resilience framework for all SEBI regulated entities which includes mutual funds.

Sushant Bhansali, CEO, Ambit Asset Management believes that asset allocation plays a key role in wealth management. Bhansali also shared his views on equity markets, opportunities in AIFs and PMS and more.

Rohan Korde, Fund Manager – Equity, ITI Mutual Fund feels that bottom up stock picking can yield better results even during the phases of high valuations and earnings growth. He also shares with us his views on large and mid cap space, ITI Mutual Fund’s new offering and more.