Friday, February 23, 2007

Kotak AMC ties up with US-based T Rowe Price

Kotak Asset Management Company has tied up with the US-based T Rowe Price to launch a fund that will invest in the Luxembourg-domiciled T Rowe Price Funds Sicav-Global Emerging Markets Equity Fund.

Baltimore-based T Rowe Price is one of the world’s leading independent investment management firms. The fund is expected to be launched in the next couple of months. The tie-up with T Rowe encompasses only product initiatives.

The size of the fund can be up to $150 mn. The fund will aim to outperform the MSCI Emerging Markets Index over the medium-to-long-term by investing in T Rowe Price fund. The fund invests primarily in a widely-diversified, global portfolio of transferable equity and equity-related securities of companies established or conducting a significant proportion of their business activities in the emerging countries of Latin America, Asia, Europe, Africa and the Middle-East.

Read the article in Business Standard.

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