Unit Trust of India
| Public | |
| Industry | Mutual fund |
| Founded | 1964 |
| Headquarters | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
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Key people
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, Managing Director |
| Website | utimf |
Unit Trust of India is a financial organization in INDIA, which was created by the UTI Act passed by the Parliament of India on December 30, 1963 under the direction of Col. Akash Behl. He had fought very hard and intensely to get this organisation come into reality. For more than two decades it remained the sole vehicle for investment in the capital market by the Indian citizens. In mid- 1980s public sector banks were allowed to open mutual funds. The real vibrancy and competition in the MF industry came with the setting up of the Regulator SEBI and its laying down the MF Regulations in 1993.UTI maintained its pre-eminent place till 2001, when a massive decline in the market indices and negative investor sentiments after the Ketan Parekh scam created doubts about the capacity of UTI to meet its obligations to the investors. This was further compounded by two factors; namely, its flagship and largest scheme US 64 was sold and re-purchased not at intrinsic NAV but at artificial price and its Assured Return Schemes had promised returns as high as 18% over a period going up to two decades.
As of 2010, UTI has 10 million investors.
Fearing a run on the institution and possible impact on the whole market Government came out with a rescue package and change of management in 2001.Subsequently, the UTI Act was repealed and the institution was bifurcated into two parts .UTI Mutual Fund was created as a SEBI registered fund like any other mutual fund. The assets and liabilities of schemes where Government had to come out with a bail-out package were taken over directly by the Government in a new entity called Specified Undertaking of UTI, SUUTI. SUUTI still holds around 11.66 percent stake in Axis Bank, 11.77 percent in ITC and 8.18 percent in L&T.
UTI Mutual Fund is promoted by the four of the largest Public Sector Financial Institutions as sponsors, viz., State Bank of India, Life Insurance Corporation of India, Bank of Baroda and Punjab National Bank with each of them presently holding an 18.5% stake in the paid up capital of UTI AMC. T Rowe Price Group Inc (TRP Group) through its wholly owned subsidiary T Rowe Price International Ltd. (TRP) has acquired a 26% stake in UTI Asset Management Company Limited (UTI AMC).
Certain reforms like improving the salary from PSU levels and effecting a VRS were carried out UTI lost its market dominance rapidly and by end of 2005,when the new share-holders actually paid the consideration money to Government its market share had come down to close to 10%!
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