With the change in taxation taking the sheen off debt funds, asset management companies (AMCs) are looking for ways to prevent flows from getting diverted to other fixed-income products like bank fixed deposits (FDs).
They have a handful of options at their disposal — managing funds more actively, raising credit and duration risks, bringing in cost-efficiencies to lower expenses, and launching debt-oriented funds with 35 per cent arbitrage or equity component or a mix of both.
At least one medium-sized fund house is in the process of coming out with a debt-plus arbitrage fund.
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