About HSBC Global Emerging Markets Fund

The Scheme is an open ended fund of fund scheme investing in HSBC Global Investment Funds – Global Emerging Markets Equity Fund (the“Master Fund"). The Scheme seeks to provide long term capital appreciation through investment in the Master Fund. The Scheme can also invest a certain proportion of its corpus in money market instruments or units of liquid mutual funds scheme to meet liquidity requirements.

Pros & Cons of HSBC Global Emerging Markets Fund

HSBC Global Emerging Markets Fund offers following features: 1. Being a global equity fund (look-through Master Fund), investors access potential currency adjusted performance benefit through global investments 2. Suitable for investors who wish to have geographical and sectoral diversification leading to risk reduction.

Fund Information and Statistics of HSBC Global Emerging Markets Fund

Inception / Launch date

The Scheme was launched on 17 March 2008 and benchmarked against MSCI Emerging Markets Index.

Risk level

Being an equity scheme, the scheme is high risk bet and suitable if the investment horizon is 5 years or more.

Redemption

The Scheme is open for repurchase/redemptions on all business days. Redemption proceeds are despatched within 10 business days from the date of the receipt of valid redemption request at the official points of acceptance. The NAV is declared on all business days and published in two newspapers. The NAVs are also published in official website of the fund house.

Fund Manager

The Scheme is currently managed by Mr. Ranjithgopal K A who is managing the Scheme since February 2017. Mr. Ranjithgopal is dedicated fund manager for overseas investments.

Entry / Exit load

In respect of each purchase/switch-in of units, an exit load of 1% is charged by the fund house if units are redeemed/switched-out within 1 year from the date of allotment. No exit load is charged if units are redeemed or switched-out after 1 year from date of allotment. No entry load is charged by the fund house for subscriptions.

Tax benefits of investing in HSBC Global Emerging Markets Fund

Long Term Capital Gains (LTCG) taxed @20% after indexation if units are held for more than 36 months. Short term capital gains (STCG) are added to the income and taxed as per the income tax slab. It is advisable to hold the investment for more than 36 months to avail tax benefits. Investors do not pay any tax on dividends received but a Dividend Distribution Tax (DDT) is deducted by the fund house at source.

About HSBC Mutual Fund

HSBC Asset Management (India) Pvt Ltd, investment manager to HSBC Mutual Fund, is one of the leading asset management company in country which offers a flexible product range to create wealth in the long term for individual and institutional customers. Mr Sridhar Chandrasekharan is the Global CEO of the Investment Manager of the fund house.