DBS Chola MF has announced the launch of DBS Chola Fixed Maturity Plan Series 11 (13 months) in the Indian market.

The fund is a close ended income scheme with an objective to generate regular returns and capital appreciation by investing in debt (including securitized debt), Government and Money Market securities maturing in line with time profile of the respective plans.

The Benchmark for the fund will be Crisil Short Term Fund Index.  

The minimum investment amount will be Rs 10,000 and in multiples of Re. 1 thereafter. For the institutional plan, the minimum application amount is Rs 1 crore and in multiples of Re. 1 thereafter.

UTI-MNC Fund, an open-ended equity scheme, has declared tax-free dividend of 25% (Rs 2.50 per unit on face value of Rs10/-).

Pursuant to the payment of dividend, the NAV of the dividend option of the scheme would fall to the extent of payout and statutory levy if any. The record date for the dividend is July 28, 2008.

UTI-MNC Fund was launched in April 1998. The objective of the scheme is to predominantly invest in equities and equity related instruments of Multinational Corporations and other liquid stocks.