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No Restriction on Redemption From Axis Mutual Fund schemes : Chandresh Nigam

MAS Team 13 May 2022
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Chandresh Nigam, MD & CEO, Axis Mutual Fund, has said that Axis Mutual Fund will continue to maintain the highest governance standards,

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Axis MF suspends two fund managers amid allegations of irregularities

MAS Team 07 May 2022
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Axis Mutual Fund (MF), India’s seventh-biggest asset manager by way of pooled cash under management, has suspended two fund managers --Viresh...

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50% Equity Mutual Fund Managers Fail to Beat Benchmark for Another Year

MAS Team 16 April 2022
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According to SPIVA India Scorecard, a report by S&P Dow Jones Indices, 50% of Indian equity large cap funds underperformed the S&P BSE 100 in the...

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ICICI Prudential Launches Housing Opportunities Fund

MAS Team 01 April 2022
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ICICI Prudential has launched its Housing Opportunities Fund scheme this week. However, the subscription will be allowed till April 11, 2022. The...

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SEBI Stops MF NFOs; Provides Time to Comply With New Norms

MAS Team 01 April 2022
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Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) had asked mutual fund houses to ensure that no mutual fund distributor, online...

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Aditya Birla SL, HDFC Mutual Fund To Merge FMPs Into Debt Funds

MAS Team 26 March 2022
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Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund and HDFC Mutual Fund will merge their Fixed Maturity Plans (FMPs) - fixed tenure debt products - coming up for...

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Franklin Templeton To Repay Commissions Charged On Six Shut Schemes

MAS Team 26 March 2022
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According to a report in ‘The Economic Times’, Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund has decided to repay commissions charged by it between June...

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Parag Parikh Flexi Cap Fund to reopen for lumpsum investments from 15th March

MAS Team 12 March 2022
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Parag Parikh Flexi Cap Fund will reopen for transactions from next week, informed Rajeev Thakkar, CIO & Director of PPFAS Mutual Fund.

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Motilal Oswal AMC launches S&P BSE Low Volatility ETF and index fund

MAS Team 04 March 2022
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Motilal Oswal AMC has launched low volatility factor-based exchange traded fund (ETF) and Index Fund – Motilal Oswal S&P BSE Low Volatility ETF...

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SEBI Pulls Up New AMC Samco MF For Calling its Scheme a 'Pure' Equity Fund

MAS Team 26 February 2022
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Newly launched asset management company - Samco Mutual Fund has come under fire from market regulator SEBI for misleading investors during their...

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Changes in Our Business Model
 
 
Greetings from Moneylife Advisory Services
 
Between financial years 2019-21, SEBI has come up with extensive changes to investor advisor regulations. On Sep 23, 2020, SEBI had issued new additional guidelines. This comes just two months after extensive changes announced in July 2020. Earlier, in December 2019 there was an ad hoc circular
 
As a result of these changes, IAs, cannot accept fees through credit cards, will have to sign a 26-clause investor agreement, have to maintain physical record written & signed by client, telephone recording, emails, SMS messages and any other legally verifiable record for five years. IAs were already asked to record the suitability and rationale for every piece of advice given, sign them and store them for five years.
 
While these extensive and frequent changes, designed to strengthen the conduct of IAs are well-meaning, these have sharply increased compliance efforts and cost. We, being online advisors, find many of changes harder to implement, compared to advisors working in the physical space. We will have to have an army of advisors, administrative and tech staff to be compliant. If we do this, we will have to divert money to these areas and the cost of our service will double. We want to remain the least-cost service in the market to benefit more and more people. In the circumstances, we are forced to change our business model from “advisory” to “research”. This will mean the following:
 
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  • We will have to suspend the restructuring tool.
 
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Over the next few weeks our site and our communication to you will reflect these and other additional changes.
 
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