Investors should know that IDLC AML managed Mutual Funds are not guaranteed or assured return schemes and the past performance of the Sponsors and their affiliates or the Asset Manager does not guarantee future performance of the Scheme. The name of the Scheme does not in any manner indicate either the quality of the Scheme or its future prospects and returns. Investing in the IDLC AML managed Mutual Fund involves some general risks and some scheme specific risks that investors should carefully consider before investing in the Mutual Fund.

General Risk Factors:

As the price / value / interest rates of the securities in which Scheme invests fluctuates, the value of investment in the Scheme may go up or down depending on the various factors and forces affecting the capital markets and money markets. Government policy and tax laws may change, affecting the return on investments of the mutual fund, which may eventually affect the NAV and return of the units. 

The Scheme at times may receive large number of redemption requests, leading to an asset-liability mismatch and therefore, requiring the investment manager to make a quick sale of the securities leading to realignment of the portfolio and consequently resulting in investment in lower yield instruments. 

Delays or other problems in settlement of transactions could result in temporary periods when the assets of the Scheme remain idle and no return is earned thereon. The inability of the Scheme to make intended securities purchases and sales, due to settlement problems, could cause the Scheme to miss certain investment opportunities.

Scheme Specific Risk Factors:

Some of the specific risk factors related to the Scheme include, but are not limited to the following: 

Risk factors associated with investing in equities and equity related instruments: 

Equity shares and equity related instruments are volatile and prone to price fluctuations on a daily basis. Securities, which are not quoted on the stock exchanges, are inherently illiquid in nature and carry a larger amount of liquidity risk, in comparison to securities that are listed on the exchanges. 

While securities that are listed on the stock exchange carry lower liquidity risk, the ability to sell these investments is limited by the overall trading volume on the stock exchanges. 

Despite careful investment selection of companies in the Fund, if the companies fail to provide the expected dividend or fail to disburse the dividends declared in a timely manner, this will impact the income of the Fund and the overall return of the Fund. 

Risk factors associated with investing in the Fixed Income Securities: 

The Net Asset Value (NAV) of the Scheme, to the extent invested in Debt and Money Market instruments, will be affected by changes in the general level of interest rates. 

Money market instruments lack a well-developed secondary market, which may restrict the selling ability of the Scheme and may lead to the Scheme incurring losses till the security is finally sold. 

Investment in debt instruments are subject to credit risk i.e. the risk of an issuer's inability to meet interest or principal payments on its obligations, which may have their credit ratings downgraded. Changes in financial conditions of an issuer or changes in economic and political conditions specific to the issuer are factors that may affect an issuer's credit quality and security values. 

Government securities have price-risk like any other fixed income security. Generally, when interest rates rise, prices of fixed income securities fall and when interest rates drop, the prices increase. The extent of fall or rise in the prices is a function of the existing coupon, days to maturity and the increase or decrease in the level of interest rates. However, Government Securities are unique in the sense that their credit risk generally remains zero. Therefore, their prices are influenced only by movement in interest rates in the financial system. 

As zero coupon securities do not provide periodic interest payments to the holder of the security, these securities are more sensitive to changes in interest rates and are subject to default risk of the issuer. Therefore, the interest rate risk of zero coupon securities is relatively higher than other Fixed Income Securities. 

Certain fixed income securities give an issuer the right to call back its securities before their maturity date, in periods of declining interest rates. The possibility of such prepayment may force the Scheme to reinvest the proceeds of such investments in securities offering lower yields, resulting in lower interest income for the Scheme.