Thursday, September 10, 2009

Author's Post-Graduation Project report

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Bharti is looking to exit completely from its mutual fund joint venture with AXA by December 2009. CNBC-TV18 learns that AXA is now scouting for public sector banks to partner for the venture. Priyal Guliani reports.

Below is a verbatim transcript of Priyal Guliani's report on CNBC-TV18. Also watch the accompanying video.

CNBC-TV18 had reported first on March 31, 2009 that Bharti is looking to exit from its venture with Bharti-AXA for its mutual fund venture. Now it is learnt that Bharti is looking at this exit to be completed by December 2009. We understand that the other partner—AXA is looking and scouting for public sector undertaking (PSU) banks to partner with it for its mutual fund venture essentially to have distribution model in place where they would get distribution support from the PSU banks.

It is learnt that the process has already started. Also, there are about nine banks that have been short listed according to sources. Some of these shortlisted banks by AXA include Bank of India, Allahabad Bank , Central Bank and ndian Overseas Bank. We also understand that at this point of time the valuations are really cheap considering the fact that Bharti AXA has been into business for just about a year. They have a paid up capital of about Rs 80 crore and with an asset under management (AUM) of Rs 283 crore as of August 2009, the base is really small. Also considering it is a new venture the valuations are also cheap at this point in time but as to who will be the final contender—the timeline set for that is about December 2009.

The company is yet to respond to our email query in this matter.


ICICI Pru MF launches FMP Series 49 3 Years Plan A

ICICI Pru MF launches FMP Series 49 3 Years Plan A:


"ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund has launched Fixed Maturity Plan Series 49 – Three Years Plan A, a closedended debt scheme, seeks to generate regular returns by investing in a portfolio of fixed income securities / debt instruments which mature on or before the date of maturity of the plan/scheme."

  © Blogger templates Newspaper III by Ourblogtemplates.com 2008

Back to TOP