Thursday, January 07, 2010

Taurus MF Announces Change of Fund Manager

With effect from 1 January 2010 

Taurus Mutual Fund has announced Mr. Mohit Mirchandani as the Fund Manager of Taurus Tax Shield, Taurus Bonanza Fund and Taurus Discovery Fund with effect from 1 January 2010 in place of Mr. Prasanna Pathak.

Mr. Prasanna Pathak who was working as Fund Manager of Taurus Tax Shield, Taurus Bonanza Fund and Taurus Discovery Fund has resigned and relieved from the service of the company with effect from 1 January 2010.

-Taurus Tax Shield is an open end equity linked tax saving scheme with the investment objective to provide long term capital appreciation over the life of the scheme through investment pre-dominantly in equity shares, besides tax benefits. 

-Taurus Bonanza Fund is an open end equity scheme with a large cap focus which has the investment objective to provide investors long-term capital appreciation. Investments shall be primarily in Equity and Equity related instruments that offer scope for long-term capital appreciation. The Fund will also be invested in debt and money market instruments. 

-Taurus Discovery Fund is an open end equity fund with mid cap and small cap focus which has the primary investment to identify and select low priced stocks through price discovery mechanism, which would broadly include: To capitalize on available opportunity on growth potential offered by undervalued penny stocks. Such stocks being low priced and if dividend paying, decent dividend yield will give desired cushion in the volatile capital market. Lower side risk is minimum in such investments. Many of such cases where investment will be made, may be turnaround cases, therefore, greater potential for improvement in NAV.