The Big Picture: Essel Debt Crisis & FMPs

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The crisis in the Essel group has led to ripples in the market... with short-term debt investors facing heat as the some of the country’s leading mutual fund houses like Kotak Mutual Fund delaying full redemption in six of its fixed maturity plans (FMPs)... The HDFC Mutual Fund too has announced plans to roll over one of its fixed maturity plans that is coming up for redemption...

This is due to delay in recovering money lent by the schemes to two Essel Group companies, Edisons Utility Works Pvt Ltd and Konti Infrapower & Multiventures Pvt Ltd...

In a statement... the Essel group has said... that it “has reached at an arrangement with the lenders with a resolution time frame of September 2019. The lenders have unanimously extended support to the group and the same has positively resulted in saving the loss of public money...”

The mutual fund industry has a debt exposure of Rs 7,500 crore to the Zee/Essel Group. Of this, around Rs 1,500 crore is in fixed maturity plans with the rest in open-ended debt mutual fund schemes. Kotak and HDFC Mutual Fund hold most of the debt in fixed maturity plans.

Last October’s non-banking financial sector crisis sparked by the collapse of Infrastructure Lending and Financial Services (IL&FS) led to serious liquidity crisis... and the Essel Group’s private unlisted infrastructure companies were among those affected impacting the shares of Zee Entertainment shares which saw a collapse...

Anchor: Rajat

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Kshitiz Mahajan, Mutual Fund Advisor

Puja Mehra, Economic Journalist

Madhukar Seth, Former Member, SEBI
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*Two Essel Group companies in which the FMP had invested had not repaid in full. That forced the asset manager to hold back part of the payments when the plan matured on 8 April.*

tthequestt
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GHANTA .... ketan parekh and subhas chandra should share same cell

book--worm
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Puja mehra wins it all. Clarity of mind. Mr Madhukar - shame to see people like you served in Sebi. No wonder people loose money, bond markets are killed, faith is eroded.

nileshiwari
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Dear Mr kaint
Please improve on your initial opening rarks in programm. Your accent is eclipsing the content. And your pauses are at wrong is a honest observation.

santoshkumarbarik
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Pehli baar dekha ki RSTV bhi apne panel me private channel ki tarah murkho aur baised logo ko bulata hai

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