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Looking for a go-anywhere fund? Opt for the new flexi-cap category

The requirement that debt funds must allocate 10 per cent of their portfolio to liquid assets will improve their risk profile

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Debt funds will now have to keep 10 per cent of their portfolios in liquid assets like cash, government securities, t-bills, and repo on government securities

Sanjay Kumar Singh New Delhi
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has made a couple of changes through two circulars dated November 6. It has introduced a new equity fund category called flexi-cap. It has also made it mandatory for all categories of open-ended debt schemes barring a few — overnight, liquid, gilt, and gilt with constant duration — to hold a minimum 10 per cent of their net assets in liquid instruments.

New flexi-cap category

The flexi-cap category needs to fulfil only one regulatory requirement — a minimum of 65 per cent of its assets must be in equities. Most of the current multi-cap