{"id":86275,"date":"2019-09-22T15:18:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T09:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=10328"},"modified":"2019-09-22T15:18:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T09:48:36","slug":"sebi-tightens-norms-for-liquid-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sebi-tightens-norms-for-liquid-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"SEBI tightens norms for liquid funds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has released a circular on risk management framework for liquid funds.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Liquid funds:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Liquid funds belong to the debt category of mutual funds.<\/li><li>They invest in very short-term market instruments like treasury bills, government securities among others.<\/li><li>They are getting popular with retail investors due to their higher than savings bank account returns and easy liquidity.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Circular on liquid funds<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Liquid funds shall hold at least 20% of their net assets in liquid assets. For this purpose, liquid assets shall include cash, government securities, T-bills and repo on government securities.<\/li><li>In case the exposure in such liquid assets falls below 20% of net assets of the scheme, the fund house will first have to meet the 20% norm before making any further investments.<\/li><li>The new norms will be effective from April 1,2020.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional information:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mutual fund<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Mutual Fund(MF) is an investment vehicle made up of a pool of money collected from public investors.<\/li><li>The pooled money is used to buy other securities by professional money managers.It charges a small fee for managing the money.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>SEBI was established in 1992 in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act,1992 (SEBI Act).<\/li><li>The basic functions of the SEBI is to protect the interests of investors in securities and to promote and regulate the securities market.<\/li><li>The board of SEBI is a quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial body which can draft regulations, conduct inquiries, pass rulings and impose penalties.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has released a circular on risk management framework for liquid funds. Facts: About Liquid funds: Liquid funds belong to the debt category of mutual funds. They invest in very short-term market instruments like treasury bills, government securities among others. They are getting popular with retail investors due&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sebi-tightens-norms-for-liquid-funds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SEBI tightens norms for liquid funds<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3127],"tags":[3857,3199],"class_list":["post-86275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","tag-liquid-funds","tag-sebi","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700799122,"cached_date":1704729834},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}