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NITL to launch new income fund on 15th
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Staff Reporter KARACHI: National Investment Trust Limited (NITL) announced launching of its new product NIT Income Fund (NIT IF) from February 15. The Initial Offering of the Fund will remain open for five days from February 15 to February 19, 2010. Tariq Iqbal Khan, chairman NITL announced this during a pre-IPO presentation held Monday at Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) auditorium. The NIT-IF is aimed to provide competitive stream of return with moderate level of risk for its unit holders (both individual and institutional), by investing primarily in fixed income securities/instruments, Tariq Iqbal Khan said. He said that Pacra has upgraded an asset manager rating of NITL to AM2. The performance of NIT IF would be compared against 6 Months Kibor. The benchmark would be average of 6 months Kibor rates quoted during the period. The NIT IF is being offered at Rs10 per unit. Investor can open an account with minimum amount as small as Rs5000. However, different classes of units require different amount of initial and subsequent investments. There is no upper limit of investment for both individual and institutional investors. No Front/Back End Load would be charged to pre-IPO and IPO Investors. However, subsequent to Initial Offering a front load of 1 per cent of NAV would be applicable whereas back-end load would remain NIL. Chairman NITL informed that NITL is the core investor of NIT Income Fund and has invested Rs100 million of which Rs50 million shall remain invested for a period of at least two years.
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