Religare Fund has announced that Religare Infrastructure Fund which is a close ended scheme will be converted to an open ended scheme. The change will be effective from 23rd November, 2010. Investors who do not agree with the conversion may redeem or switch their units between the periods of 22nd October, 2010 to 22nd November, 20100 without paying any exit load. After the conversion to open ended scheme the fund will charge 1 per cent exit load if units are redeemed within 1 year from the date of allotment. The scheme is benchmarked against CNX 500 and is managed by Mr. Pardeep Kumar.
As the name suggests, it's an electronic process through which money can be transferred from one bank account to another. According to RBI, this mode is usually used for regular payments and receipts, like distribution of dividend, interest, salary, pension etc. This mode is also used for collection of bills for telephone, electricity, water, various types of taxes, payment of EMIs , investments in mutual funds , payment of insurance premium etc. There are two types of ECS , like most other banking transactions, ECS credit and ECS debit. An ECS credit is used by a bank account holder , usually a large company or an institution for services like payment of dividend, in terest, salary, pension etc. If your mutual fund pays you dividend to your bank account, of all probability it is being paid through ECS credit.ECS debit, on the other hand, is used when a company or an institution is getting money from a large number of people. For example if you are investing in a mutual fund sc...
