Exchange-traded funds News

The account is used to buy and sell stocks, bonds, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, index funds, options, futures, foreign currencies, real estate investment trusts , among other instruments.

The offshore India fund -- not domiciled in India -- receives flow from overseas investors and in turn, invests the money in the Indian markets.

SBI Funds Management (SBIFM) on Wednesday said it has become the country's first asset manager to cross Rs 20,000 crore of AUM in exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

Total demand for gold -- whose twin drivers are jewellery and investment buying -- advanced 2 percent to 4,309 tonnes compared with 2015, London-based industry body WGC said in a report.  

India saw an inflow of USD 685 million from listed foreign funds in October, primarily driven by strong capital infusion in exchange-traded funds (ETFs), according to a report.

Investors remained bearish on gold exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in July and pulled out Rs 183 crore from this instrument, taking the total to Rs 411 crore in the first four months of the current fiscal, mainly on account of profit-booking.

New Delhi: In a sign of growing investor interest in exchange-traded funds (ETFs), their asset base on National Stock Exchange's Nifty 50 jumped nearly 7-fold to Rs 8,533 crore at the end of March.

New fund offers (NFOs) seem to be moving in a low gear as fund houses have launched only 340 new schemes in April-September of 2015 following Sebi's direction to rationalise and consolidate offerings with similar goals.  

Pitching for more transparency and disclosures with regard to exchange-traded funds (ETFs), SEBI chief U K Sinha Monday said the markets regulator is willing to make changes to norms regulating the financial product based on inputs from market players and experts.

An ETF is a marketable security that tracks an index, a commodity, bond or a basket of assets like an index fund. Unlike mutual funds, an ETF trades like a common stock on a stock exchange.

Global equity mutual funds and exchange-traded funds attracted $88.3 billion of net inflows so far in 2015, putting them on track to surpass the previous four-month record total of $86 billion from December 2005 through March 2006, TrimTabs Investment Research said on Tuesday.

SBI Mutual Fund (SBI MF) Wednesday said it plans to launch two more exchange-traded funds (ETF) to ramp up its bouquet of such offerings by the end of the fiscal, for which regulatory approvals are already in place.