Avoid realty papers, Sebi tells MFs
Market participants said, “Recently, while clearing a capital protection scheme of some fund houses, Sebi had asked them not to buy papers or debentures of the realty sector. According to a senior official, the reservations for investing in the realty sector was made by Sebi in the context of capital protection schemes only. Currently, debt funds have larger investments in debentures, commercial papers, floating rate bond and pass through certificate issued by various real estate players. During the financial crisis of 2008, several realty players reportedly re-scheduled their maturity with debt fund managers to avoid a payment default, said a senior debt fund manager. However, post 2008, mutual funds gradually seemed to have reduced exposure to the realty sector. According to Value Research data, average debt fund investments in the real estate papers have come down in the last three years. While In 2008, it was 9.32% of net assets, it came down to 5.1% in 2009 and 3.6% in 2010.
Murthy Nagarajan, head fixed income at Tata Mutual Fund says, “As a policy we are not investing in real
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