Reliance MF Launched Infrastructure Fund

Reliance Mutual Fund who is No. 1 Asset Management Company in India in terms of Average Asset Management has recently launched Infrastructure Fund (Open-Ended Equity Scheme) Details of the scheme are as follows:

Reliance Infrastructure Fund (An open-ended Equity Scheme): The primary investment objective of the scheme is to generate long term capital appreciation by investing predominantly in equity and equity related instruments of companies engaged in infrastructure and infrastructure related sectors and which are incorporated or have their area of primary activity, in India and the secondary objective is to generate consistent returns by investing in debt and money market securities.

Asset Allocation: Equities and equity related securities including derivatives – 65% -100%. Debt and Money market securities** (including investments in securitised debt) – 0-35%. ** including securitised debt upto 30%.

Minimum Application Amount:
Retail Plan: Rs. 5,000/-
Institutional Plan: Rs. 5,00,00,000/-

Load Structure: For Retail Plan:

Entry Load For subscription below Rs. 2 Crs - 2.25%; For subscription of Rs 2 Crs & above and below Rs 5 Crs - 1.25%; For subscription of Rs 5 Crs and above- Nil

Exit Load For subscriptions of less than Rs 5 Crs per purchase transactions: 1% if redeemed/switched on or before completion of 1 year from the date of allotment; Nil if redeemed/switched after completion of 1 year from the date of allotment.

For Institutional Plan:
Entry Load - Nil
Exit Load – Nil.

Offer opening Date: 25th May 2009
Offer Closing Date: 23rd June 2009

Terms of Issue: The Units are available at Rs. 10/- per unit plus applicable load during the New Fund Offer Period and thereafter at applicable NAV based prices. The AMC will calculate and disclose the first NAV not later than 30 days from the closure of the New Fund Offer Period. Subsequently, the NAV will be calculated and disclosed at the close of every working day which shall be published in at least in two daily newspapers and also uploaded on AMFI site i.e. www.amfiindia.com and Reliance Mutual Fund website.

(Mutual Funds Investment are subjest to market risk. Please read the OD carefully before investing)

Reliance Mutual Fund expects 80% growth.

Despite of so much volatility in stock market Reliance Mutual Fund is expecting 80% growth in his assets base and 100% growth in number of investors. Sandeep Sikka, Dy CEO of Reliance Asset Management Ltd told to news agencies that company’s compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) for the last 2 years was 80% and is hopeful to maintain the same gowth rate this financial year also. Asset under management of RAMC for the year 2006-2007 was 26,000 crore, which grew to 92000 crore in 2007-2008. As on 31^st may 2008 total asset under management of Reliance Mutual Fund were 98,340 crores.

Mr. Sikka said that retail investors have now started investing for long term and they have remained invested even in present bad market condition, and have seen no fear and doubt in investors. He is hopeful to see 100% growth in number of investors.

It is worth mentioning that Reliance Asset Management Ltd had 35 lac total investors in 2006-2007 which grew to 67 lac in 2007-2008. The company has reach in 300 cities in India and is planning to increase its number to 500 this year.