Anil Ambani Group Company Reliance Mutual Fund today said it
is looking for a foreign partner to sell its mutual fund products in the
overseas markets.
“We are looking at partnering a global firm which will help
us in distributing our products overseas,” Reliance Capital Asset Management
Ltd CEO Sundeep Sikka told PTI.
India’s largest asset management company Reliance MF has
presence in five overseas locations - Dubai, Singapore, Mauritius, Malaysia and
the UK.
At the end of June quarter, the fund house managed average
assets worth over Rs 1.01 lakh crore and had an investor base of 73 lakh.
Sikka further said that Reliance MF is in talks with various
foreign individuals for investment, but did not divulge the names.
In order to promote the portfolio investment route, the
government in August allowed QFIs - individual, group or association - to
invest up to USD 13 billion in equity and debt schemes of mutual funds.
“We are in advanced stages of talks with a few QFIs and are
hopeful of bringing them in shortly,” Sikka added.
He added that Reliance MF will continue to focus on retail
customers for expansion and retail debt segment would be its focus area.
“We are planning to come out with innovative products for
retail customers which would be simple. We want to cash in on the huge untapped
potential that the retail segment has,” he said.
The company is also planning to come out with funds which
will invest in the global equities. The company has already filed an offer
document with Sebi to launch Reliance Indonesia Opportunities Fund, which seeks
to invest predominantly in equity and equity related instruments of Indonesian
and Indian markets.
“We are looking at frontier and developed markets as well
for opportunities,” Sikka said.
He, however, added that it is only in the planning stage and
would need longer term plan of the company to allow Indian investors
opportunity to invest in equities of frontier economies like Sri Lanka,
Bangladesh and Africa.
Reliance MF offers 22 equity scheme, 12 debt schemes and two
ETFs.
Source: http://www.thehindu.com/business/companies/article2506481.ece
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