Fifth Schedule advertisement code
The eleven clauses governing mutual fund advertisements — requiring them to be accurate, true, fair, clear, complete, unambiguous and concise, and prohibiting false or projected statements, testimonials, rankings…
This one is not written up yet
The definition above is the short version. A full explanation — how it works, a worked example and the exam traps — is still being written. In the meantime the chapter below covers it in context.
Written up from the same chapter
- Corporate Debt Market Development FundA close-ended Category I AIF, formed as a trust with a 15-year tenure, that buys investment-grade corporate bonds from debt mutual fund schemes when SEBI declares a market dislocation.
- SCORESSEBI's centralised web-based system for processing investor complaints, on which the company or intermediary must upload an Action Taken Report and the investor can watch the status online.
- Segregated portfolioA ring-fenced sub-portfolio holding the debt instrument hit by a credit event, split out of a scheme so that the good assets stay liquid and exiting investors cannot leave the damaged paper behind.
- Total Return IndexThe variant of a market index that adds the dividends and interest paid by its constituents to their price movement — the only variant a mutual fund scheme may be benchmarked against since 1 February 2018.
Where this is taught
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