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Will Sebi's fatwa for multi-cap funds work? Only the market will determine

Sebi's new diktat says multi-cap equity funds must invest a minimum of 75% in equities, up from 65%, with at least 25% each in large-caps, mid-caps, and small-caps

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Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, said he had sought a meeting with the RBI. The Bench said if the RBI reply ‘goes much beyond the query posed by us, there will be a lot of opinions on it’

Debashis Basu
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on September 11 came up with a fatwa. By January next year, multi-cap equity funds must invest a minimum of 75 per cent in equities, up from 65 per cent, with at least 25 per cent each in large-caps, mid-caps, and small-caps. This has sent shockwaves, not just through the fund industry and equity fund investors but the entire equity market. Here is why. Most of the multi-cap money is invested in large-caps. If multi-cap funds are forced to make a 25 per cent allocation each to large-, mid-, and small-caps, they
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