News: Recently, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) launched MITRA (Mutual Fund Investment Tracing and Retrieval Assistant).
About Mutual Fund Investment Tracing and Retrieval Assistant (MITRA)
- It is a new digital platform designed to help investors trace and reclaim their inactive or unclaimed mutual fund folios.
- Aim: This initiative aims to address the growing concern of investors losing track of their mutual fund investments due to outdated contact details, lack of awareness, or forgotten investments over time.
- Objective of MITRA: The primary goal of MITRA is to empower investors by providing an industry-level searchable database that allows them to:
- Identify inactive and unclaimed folios associated with their investments.
- Trace forgotten or overlooked mutual fund investments.
- Verify investments made in their name by others for which they may be the rightful legal claimants.
- Encourage investors to update their KYC (Know Your Customer) information as per current norms.
Key Features of MITRA:
- Industry-Wide Database: Consolidates inactive and unclaimed mutual fund folios across different fund houses.
- User-Friendly Search Tool: Investors can easily search for their investments by entering details such as PAN or other identification data.
- KYC Updation Support: Assists investors in updating their KYC details, thereby ensuring that their folios remain active and secure.
- Legal Claims: Helps investors and legal heirs identify investments to which they may be rightful claimants.
- Reducing Inactive Folios: Encourages investors to reactivate their folios, reducing the number of unclaimed and inactive accounts in the mutual fund industry.
