UTI Dividend Yield Fund Regular Plan Growth

About UTI Dividend Yield Fund

Being an open ended fund, it invests in equity and equity-related securities of companies which have high dividend yield. The fund aims at maximising wealth of the investor along with giving dividend yield over medium to long term horizon. The scheme doesn’t guarantee any assured returns.

Pros & Cons of UTI Dividend Yield Fund

UTI Dividend Yield Fund offers the following benefits:

1. Opportunity to grow wealth by investing in the companies which have strong management, regular cash flows and earnings growth potential.
2. Fund manager maintains a well-diversified portfolio across sectors and market capitalisation.
3. Having a considerable performance record, the fund has beaten the benchmark in the 5 year and beaten the category in 3 year time horizon.

Fund Information and Statistics of UTI Dividend Yield Fund

i) Inception / Launch date

UTI Dividend Yield Fund was launched on 3 May 2005 by UTI Mutual Fund.

ii) Risk level

Being a thematic fund, UTI Dividend Yield Fund is a moderately high risk bet and suitable for investors who have a long-term investment horizon of more than 5 years.

iii) Redemption

Redemption of Units will be done by a repurchase/buyback by the fund house. Under normal circumstances, your fund house will dispatch the redemption proceeds within 10 business days from date of receipt of request.

iv) Fund Manager

Mrs. Swati Kulkarni, who holds around 26 years of experience with UTI Mutual Funds, has been managing the UTI Dividend Yield Fund since December 2005. Before joining the fund house, she had associations with Reliance Industries Ltd.

v) Entry / Exit load

The fund house does not charge any entry load for investing in UTI Dividend Yield Fund. However, an entry load of 1% is charged for redemption of units within 365 days from the date of allotment.

Tax benefits of investing in UTI Equity Fund

The short-term capital gains made on sale of units within 1 year from the date of allotment will be taxed at the rate of 15%. The long term capital gains, over and above Rs 1 lakh, made on sale of units after 1 year from the date of allotment will be taxable at the rate of 10% (without indexation).

About UTI Mutual Fund

UTI Mutual Funds are managed by UTI Asset Management Company Ltd. (UTI AMC). The AMC was established on November 14, 2002 and started functioning in the investment domain from February 1, 2003. The fund attempts to provide an effective combination of the domain leadership in the capital markets coupled with state-of-the-art technological expertise. Efforts are made to offer investing solution which match the risk-return needs of the clients.