Fund houses make global push, file offer documents
Fund houses are making a big push towards international markets with as many as four already filing offer documents with the market regulator Sebi.
HSBC Mutual Fund on Monday filed the offer document for its Russia Equity fund and Reliance Capital Asset Management filed the document for its first overseas fund — Reliance US equity Fund on Friday. On January 3, Axis Mutual Fund and Franklin Templeton filed documents for their Axis Asian Asset Income Fund and FT India Feeder-Asia-LatAm Fund.
Except for Reliance US Equity Fund, which is a diversified equity scheme, all other schemes are fund-of-funds — which means they would invest in existing mutual fund schemes globally rather than investing directly in stocks or bonds as they do in India.
The Reliance US Equity Opportunities scheme will invest primarily in equity and equity-related securities of companies listed on US stock exchanges.
The existing international funds have lagged in performance in 2012. While the average return generated by international equity funds stood at 14.4 per cent over the last year, multi-cap domestic equity funds have delivered an average return of by 33 per cent and large-cap funds 26.3 per cent.
Fund houses launching international funds say it is a complement to their product bouquet. “It is more to do with completing the product bouquet. Different markets perform differently and therefore there is a need to have all products on offer,” said a top official with a mutual fund house.
As of now global fund houses lead when it comes to offering overseas
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