ICICI Prudential MF launches NFO

Mutual Funds

oi-Monika Nihalani

By Monika Nihalani

Published: Thursday, July 14, 2011, 12:09 [IST]

ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund is coming up with New Fund Offer (NFO). The new fund is named ICICI Prudential Capital Protection Oriented Fund – Series II – 24 Months Plan. It's a close-ended capital protection oriented fund.

The NFO opens on July 14, 2011 and closes on July 28, 2011.

The tenure of the scheme is 735 Days. The issue price offered for the scheme is Rs 10 per unit and the scheme is proposed to be listed on NSE.

The minimum application amount is Rs 5,000 and after that additional investment can be made of Rs 10.

The fund targets to collect a Rs 25 crore under the scheme during the NFO period.

The investors will be provided with the two options: Cumulative and Dividend. Dividend option offers the facility of dividend payout. Investor needs to choose any of the option while investing, if he is not specifying the same at the time of investing, it will be implied that investor has opted for Cumulative option.

Investment Objective:
The scheme will invest a portion in good quality debt securities and money market instruments and balance in equity and equity related securities. The prime objective of investment is to protect capital and provide capital appreciation. The underlying securities would mature on or before the maturity of the Plan under the scheme.

Allocation of funds:
The scheme will allocate upto 88% to 100% of assets in debt securities & money market instruments with low to medium risk profile. It would allocate balance upto 12% of assets in equity and equity related securities with medium to high risk profile.

Fund Managers:
Chaitanya Pande and Mrinal Singh will be the Fund Manager of this scheme.

The debt portion of the scheme will be managed by Chaitanya Pande, who is PGDBM from IMI, New Delhi and BSc from St. Stephens College, New Delhi. He has 15 years of overall work experience and currently holds the position of Manager – Fund Management with ICICI Prudential.

He manages a good number of schemes stating few as ICICI Prudential Liquid Plan, ICICI Floating Rate Plan, ICICI Prudential Banking and PSU Debt Fund, etc.

The equity portion will be managed by Mrinal Singh, who is BE (Mech) and PGDM from SPJIMR, Mumbai. He holds overall experience of 8 years of which 1 year as Equity Analyst. He manages few schemes such as ICICI Prudential Advisor Series, ICICI Prudential Discovery Fund, ICICI Prudential Technology Fund, etc.

Basic Details:
NFO Opens: July 14, 2011
NFO Closes: July 28, 2011
NFO Price: Rs 10 per unit
Options: Cumulative and Dividend
Minimum Application Amount: Rs 5,000 per application and additional Rs. 10, thereafter
Exit Load: Nil
Benchmark: Crisil MIP Blended Index
Fund Manager: Chaitanya Pande and Mrinal Singh

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