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Market regulator Sebi considers tweaks to MF stock categorisation framework

More stocks could get added to large-, mid-cap universe; Move could give fund managers more flexibility

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Abhishek Kumar Mumbai

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The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is reviewing the current stock categorisation framework followed by actively managed equity mutual funds (MFs) to ensure they are true-to-label.

Individuals familiar with the matter said the universe of largecap and midcap stocks could be expanded by 25-50 stocks. The move follows concerns raised by industry players that the current threshold has been skewed following a sharp run-up in the domestic markets after the Covid-19 pandemic.

At present, the top 100 stocks by market capitalisation (mcap) are labelled as ‘largecap’, and the next 150 falls into the ‘midcap’ bucket. The rest of