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Indian fund managers are a worried a lot these days, as a series of regulatory measures -- some old, and some very recent -- are weighing strongly on asset growth even while promising to support the domestic mutual fund industry in the long run.

It hasn't been an encouraging start to the new year, as the industry's average monthly asset base shrunk about 4% month-on-month to INR7.62 trillion (
India’s investment managers are selling bonds and putting their funds in money markets, anticipating losses in longterm debt as inflation quickens and the budget deficit grows.
The RBI move to hike cash reserve ratio (CRR) by 75 basis points is expected to increase demand for fixed income schemes which invest in
short-term debt paper. With short-term interest rates expected to strengthen following the central bank’s move and the equity market turning volatile, investors are likely to switch to short-term debt (money market) schemes such as ultra short-term funds and li
Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Monday expressed confidence that in the years to come India could emerge as the fastest growing economy in the world, beating China as the nation has yet to achieve its full growth potential.
In the sense that there are still significant problems in the US financial system and the European financial system, there are substantial losses in commercial real estate in the US. There are substantial amounts of money that are still, it seems to me, have to be written off by European banks. So, for that reason alone, losses will continue to hit banks throughout 2010.
India's largest power producer NTPC has said that the world's leading financial investors, including US-based Janus Capital and
Capital Group, have shown interest in subscribing to its shares to be issued through the Follow-on Public Offer route.
Cutting short its winning streak of the past two days, the 30-share index of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), the Sensex, on Friday closed down by over 30 points, after blue-chips Reliance Industries (RIL) and Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) lost some ground on profit-booking by investors.

The government may revert to pre-slowdown indirect tax rates in two phases beginning April as the government weighs likely harm to the
ongoing economic recovery if a rollback is done at one go with the urgent need to move towards greater fiscal prudence.
A suggestion to undertake a partial rollback figured in the first round of pre-Budget consultations between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, fi