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Sebi allows mutual fund schemes to net cash market fund settlements

SEBI is in focus in a mutual funds development.

· LiveMint Markets, ET Stocks, Economic Times Markets, Business Standard Mkts

Sebi’s move changes the treatment of fund obligations for eligible mutual fund transactions, without altering the requirement for securities to be settled on a gross basis.

Fund flows and NAV moves show where domestic retail conviction is actually going, month after month.

Because the driver here is macro rather than company-specific, the read-through is to index-level positioning rather than to any single name — correlations tend to rise when the whole market faces the same signal.

  • With SEBI involved, this carries a regulatory dimension that can outlast the immediate market reaction.
  • A market-wide development: it reaches beyond any single stock.