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Financial Institutions and Services
Notes Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund
Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund is the joint venture of Aditya Birla Group and Sun Life Financial. Sun
Life Financial is a global organization evolved in 1871 and is being represented in Canada, the
US, the Philippines, Japan, Indonesia and Bermuda apart from India. Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund
follows a conservative long-term approach to investment. Recently it crossed AUM of 10,000
crores.
Bank of Baroda Mutual Fund (BOB Mutual Fund)
Bank of Baroda Mutual Fund or BOB Mutual Fund was setup on October 30, 1992 under the
sponsorship of Bank of Baroda. BOB Asset Management Company Limited is the AMC of BOB
Mutual Fund and was incorporated on November 5, 1992. Deutsche Bank AG is the custodian.
ING Vysya Mutual Fund
ING Vysya Mutual Fund was setup on February 11, 1999 with the same named Trustee Company.
It is a joint venture of Vysya and ING. The AMC, ING Investment Management (India) Pvt. Ltd.
was incorporated on April 6, 1998.
Prudential ICICI Mutual Fund
The mutual fund of ICICI is a joint venture with Prudential Plc. of America, one of the largest life
insurance companies in the US of A. Prudential ICICI Mutual Fund was setup on 13th of October,
1993 with two sponsorers, Prudential Plc. and ICICI Ltd. The Trustee Company formed is
Prudential ICICI Trust Ltd. and the AMC is Prudential ICICI Asset Management Company
Limited incorporated on 22nd of June, 1993.
State Bank of India Mutual Fund
State Bank of India Mutual Fund is the first Bank sponsored Mutual Fund to launch offshore
fund, the India Magnum Fund with a corpus of 225 cr. approximately. Today it is the largest
Bank sponsored Mutual Fund in India. They have already launched 35 Schemes out of which 15
have already yielded handsome returns to investors. State Bank of India Mutual Fund has more
than 5,500 Crores as AUM. Now it has an investor base of over 8 Lakhs spread over 18 schemes.
Unit Trust of India Mutual Fund
UTI Asset Management Company Private Limited, established in Jan 14, 2003, manages the UTI
Mutual Fund with the support of UTI Trustee Company Private Limited. UTI Asset Management
Company presently manages a corpus of over 20000 Crore. The sponsorers of UTI Mutual Fund
are Bank of Baroda (BOB), Punjab National Bank (PNB), State Bank of India (SBI), and Life
Insurance Corporation of India (LIC). The schemes of UTI Mutual Fund are Liquid Funds, Income
Funds, Asset Management Funds, Index Funds, Equity Funds and Balance Funds.
Standard Chartered Mutual Fund
Standard Chartered Mutual Fund was set up on March 13, 2000 sponsored by Standard Chartered
Bank. The Trustee is Standard Chartered Trustee Company Pvt. Ltd. Standard Chartered Asset
Management Company Pvt. Ltd. is the AMC which was incorporated with SEBI on December
20,1999.
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