Rules
The duration of the activity will be for one year, starting September 01, 2011 and ending at August 31, 2012. The transaction cost is fixed at 0.25% for each leg of trade.
Each of the fund manager will have a phantom portfolio of Rs 10 lakh in notional value, which can be invested either in stocks or held in cash.
The fund manager can hold 100 per cent cash in his portfolio, though it will not earn any return. The fund manager cannot invest more than 10% of the corpus at any time in one stock. However, there is no limitation on the number of stocks a fund manager can hold in the portfolio.
The fund manager cannot invest more than 50% of his portfolio value, in mid-caps. However, the fund manager can continue holding on to mid-cap stocks in case the value appreciates over 50% post his investment.
The fund manager can invest up to 100% in Large-caps - Which is a fixed list of NSE 100 index components, as of August 31, 2011. Mid-caps or other stocks available for trading will be on basis of two criteria. (1) Free float market-cap has to be in excess of Rs 100 crore. (2) The average traded value in the last two weeks has to be minimum Rs 50 lakh, on a combined basis (BSE+NSE). This will be updated on a weekly basis.
The S&P CNX 500 remains as the benchmark index for Smart Portfolios.
Trading will not be allowed on the Listing day of a particular security. The security will be made available the next day, only if the free-float m-cap is above Rs 100 crore.
The fund manager is only allowed to trade in the cash market and cannot take a short position.
The fund manager will carry his phantom trades on smartinvestor.in (business-standard.com). The stock price for transactions will be the NSE price available on the website, which is delayed by at least five minutes.
The fund manager will have to hold a stock for seven calendar days before selling.
The fund managers shall send at least two / three comments to justify his investment in a particular stock. For the same, will be used in the write up (updates) on site and print.
Smartinvestor.in may cancel/ reverse transactions if they violate the spirit of fair play.
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