Edelweiss Liquid Retail Growth

About Edelweiss Liquid fund

The Edelweiss Liquid Fund is an open-ended income liquid scheme with an objective to provide reasonable returns, commensurate with low risk while providing a high level of liquidity, through a portfolio of money market and debt securities.

Pros & Cons of Edelweiss Liquid fund

Edelweiss Liquid fund offers the following benefits: 1. Liquid Funds have no restrictions of a lock-in period. These funds accept withdrawals that can be processed within 24 hours on business days. Hence for all transactions received within a cut of time (say 1:00 pm) where money is also realized within the cut-off time, the units are allotted as per previous day’s NAV. 2. Liquid funds have the lowest interest risk associated among all the class of debt funds. This is because investors majorly invest in fixed income securities with short maturity. 3. Another notable benefit of liquid funds is that they do not have any entry or exit load.

Certain drawbacks of Edelweiss Liquid fund

Liquid funds do not offer as high a return as other long term equity linked instruments.

Fund Information and Statistics of Edelweiss Liquid fund

i) Inception / Launch date

Edelweiss Liquid fund was launched on September 20, 2007 by Edelweiss Mutual Fund AMC.

ii) Risk level

Being an open ended liquid fund, this fund is a low risk bet and suitable for investors who have excess cash lying unused and think they might need it in a few days or months, you could consider parking it in this scheme.

iii) Redemption

Redemption of Units will be done by a repurchase/buyback by the fund house. Under normal circumstances, your fund house will dispatch as early as possible as per norms of SEBI.

iv) Fund Manager

Mr. Gautam Kaul and Rahul Dedhia have been managing the fund since 2007. Both have an experience of 15 and 8 years respectively.

v) Entry / Exit load

The fund doesn’t have any entry or exit load associated with it.

Tax benefits of investing in the fund

Long term capital gains tax applies to returns on this fund. A capital gain registered during a period of less than 3 years is defined as Short-term Capital Gain (STCG). A capital gain registered over a period of 3 years or more is defined as Long-term Capital Gains (LTCG). STCG from debt oriented funds are added to the investor’s income. They are then taxed according to his income slab. Long term capital gains tax from debt funds is taxed at the rate of 20% after indexation and 10% without the benefit of indexation.

About Edelweiss Mutual Fund

Edelweiss Liquid fund is managed by Edelweiss Mutual Fund AMC. It is an important fiduciary business of Edelweiss Group build with vision of providing excellent investment solutions, exemplary services and setting the highest ethical standards.