Which column are you talking about?...

Hi,

It is a regular fund, not an ETF. (Sometime back I had read an interview of somebody from Benchmark saying that it is very difficult to manage an ETF with 500 stocks in the portfolio... ETFs work well with smaller number of stocks).

How to invest - Details are given in the Benchmark site... Google for *Benchmark funds India* and you can get to the site. The NFO closes on Dec 15 but will be available for investment from Jan 09 onwards. SIP available....

Benchmark has a NFO of a new index fund based on S&P CNX 500 fund. What is the opinion of experienced boarders regarding this?

Seeing that most of the *star* fund managers keep jumping companies and it becomes difficult to track fund performance, isn`t it a good strategy to invest in an index fund (i.e without fund management risks)?

Till now we only had Sensex and Nifty 50 based index funds. Benchmark has to be thanked to bring out a more diversified broader index fund....

Believe it or not, the top most column about notional loss seems to have been purged. I swear it was there yesterday and today it is gone. It deserved to go because of its silly math. Never mind...

You are right. We should thank benchmark for being innovative. I expected them to launch a S&P CNX 200 before 500. I am not sure whether this is a ETF or a regular fund? How to invest in thsi fund? Whether this fund can be bought in icici direct/citibank etc? Regards RP ...