Sundaram BNP Paribas MF Appoints New Fund Manager

Sundaram BNP Paribas Mutual Fund has appointed Mr. Dwijendra Srivastava as Head-Fixed Income in the position of Senior Vice President. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst from CFA Institute, USA. He is also a Textile Engineer with Post Graduate Diploma in Finance.

He was associated with Deutsche Asset Management (India) Ltd. as Vice President and Fund Manager since 2007, spearheading debt schemes. He was also involved in new product development.

He will manage schemes such as Sundaram BNP Paribas Money Fund, Sundaram BNP Paribas Ultra Short-Term Fund, Sundaram BNP Paribas Flexible Fund Short-Term Plan, Sundaram BNP Paribas Flexible Fund Flexible Income Plan, Sundaram BNP Paribas Gilt Fund, Sundaram BNP Paribas Select Debt Short-Term Asset Plan, Sundaram BNP Paribas Income Plus, Sundaram BNP Paribas Capital Protection Series 1-3 Years, Sundaram BNP Paribas Capital Protection Series 1-5 Years, Sundaram BNP Paribas Fixed Term Plan P - 367 days, Sundaram BNP Paribas Fixed Term Plan R - 367 days, Sundaram BNP Paribas Fixed Term Plan S - 367 days, Sundaram BNP Paribas Fixed Term Plan U - 367 days, Sundaram BNP Paribas Fixed Term Plan AA - 14 Months, Sundaram BNP Paribas Fixed Term Plan Z - 15 Months, Sundaram BNP Paribas Fixed Term Plan Y - 18 months, Sundaram BNP Paribas Fixed Income Interval Fund - Quarterly Series - Plan A, Sundaram BNP Paribas Fixed Income Interval Fund - Quarterly Series - Plan B, Sundaram BNP Paribas Fixed Income Interval Fund - Quarterly Series - Plan C, Sundaram BNP Paribas Fixed Income Interval Fund - Quarterly Series - Plan D and Sundaram BNP Paribas Fixed Income Interval Fund - Quarterly Series - Plan E.

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Birla Sun Life MF makes addendum to Long term Advantage Fund – Series I

Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund has announced change in the name of the scheme “Birla Sun Life Long Term Advantage Fund – Series I to Birla Sun Life Small and Midcap Fund. Accordingly, the benchmark index for evaluating the performance of the scheme has been changed from BSE 500 to S&P CNX Midcap Index. The changes will be effective from 12 August 2010.

Birla Sun Life Long Term Advantage Fund is an open ended small and midcap equity scheme that seeks to generate consistent long term capital appreciation by investing predominantly in equity and equity related securities of companies considering to be small and midcap. The scheme may also invest a certain portion of its corpus in fixed income securities including money market instruments, in order to meet liquidity requirements from time to time.

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