February 19, 2021
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The recent run-up in cyclical stocks and PSUs has turned out to be a money-spinner for most leading mutual funds which have turned bullish on these stocks since last October. For instance, ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund had bought NTPC, ONGC and GAIL among others stocks since late last year.
From a low of ₹65 in October, ONGC has almost doubled to ₹111 while NTPC and GAIL were up 17 per cent and 68 per cent to ₹103 and ₹143 a share.
ICICI Prudential Equity & Debt Fund, Multi-Asset Fund and India Opportunities Fund had an exposure of 5-6 per cent to ONGC.
Similarly, these schemes have exposure of 7-9.2 per cent towards NTPC. Many schemes of HDFC Asset Management Company, Nippon India MF and Franklin Templeton India had turned positive on cyclical stocks.
Shares of Security Intelligence Services (SIS) vaulted 9 per cent to Rs 465 on the BSE in Tuesday s intra-day session after the company on Monday, post market hours, announced a share buyback offer worth Rs 100 crore.
The company in an exchange filing on February 15, 2021, said that it would buyback 18,18,181 equity shares, representing 1.24 per cent of the total paid-up equity capital as on March 31, 2020.
The firm has set the buyback price at Rs 550 per share which is 29 per cent higher than its previous close of Rs 426.15.
The Board of Directors noted the intention of the promoters and members of the promoter group of the company to participate in the proposed buyback.
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Emerging investment instrument REIT seems to have finally gaining popularity among investors, with mutual funds investing a staggering Rs 3,972 crore in such units in 2020, a six-fold jump from the preceding year. Green Portfolio co-founder Divam Sharma said that with names like DLF, Brookfield and Godrej in the process of launching REIT, more interest from mutual funds in such offerings is expected in the coming years. He further said 2021 looks better from the standpoint of mutual funds investing in REITs, as business is seeing normalcy after a setback from COVID-19 in 2020. REITs and InvITs are relatively new investment instruments in the Indian context but are popular in global markets. While REIT comprises a portfolio of commercial real assets, a major portion of which are already leased out, InvITs comprise a portfolio of infrastructure assets such as highways and power transmission assets.
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