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Sensex up 31 points
Mumbai: The Sensex closed the day at 5,428.77 points, 31.31 points higher than Monday's close. The S&P CNX Nifty closed 10.35 points higher at 1,685.55 points.

Market Gainers
Bharti Tele-Ventures, Hero Honda, Grasim, Godavari Fertilisers, UTI Bank, HMT, Moschip Semiconductor, Ind-Swift Laboratories, Uniphos Enterprises, Bharti Tele-Ventures, Aztec Software, KEC International, Infosys, Wipro, Satyam

Market Losers
Maruti Udyog, Hindustan Lever, ITC, JMC Projects, Kalyani Forge, Elder Pharma, LIC Housing Finance, TVS Sri Chakra, Nahar Spinning, Mahindra Ugine

Market Counters
BSE 30
Figures in Rupees
Gain (+) / Loss (-)

ACC 273.50 +1.70
Bajaj Auto 916.10 -2.00
Bharti Televentures 146.15 +6.50
BHEL 578.45 +9.05
Cipla 270.85 +6.15
Dr. Reddys Laboratories 750.00 -6.85
Grasim Industries 1,193.85 +35.20
Gujarat Ambuja 339.20 +2.25
HDFC 637.05 +13.80
HDFC Bank 391.10 +3.40
Hero Honda Motors 462.90 +16.75
Hindalco Industries Limited 1,195.65 +13.15
Hindustan Petroleum Corp 328.65 +6.85
HLL 119.95 -1.80
ICICI Bank 267.50 +2.65
Infosys Technologies 1,697.55 +22.35
ITC 1,086.05 -14.90
Maruti Udyog 354.65 -24.00
MTNL 120.15 +0.15
ONGC 710.00 +8.95
Ranbaxy Labs 1,093.05 +23.20
Reliance Energy 628.90 -4.20
Reliance Industries 486.00 -4.85
Satyam Computer Services 389.50 +11.15
State Bank Of India 456.25 -0.10
Tata Motors 390.45 -3.30
Tata Power 287.65 -3.10
TISCO 263.85 +4.20
Wipro 600.90 +11.70
Zee Telefilms 147.15 +3.60

Others

Godavari Fertilisers up Rs.10.25 at Rs.82.45
HMT up Rs.2.4 at Rs.21
Ind-Swift Laboratories up Rs.6 at Rs.66.95
Uniphos Enterprises up Rs.1.31 at Rs.23.09
Aztec Software up Rs.1.85 at Rs.44.25
Kalyani Forge lost ground by Rs.15.5 to close at Rs.294.40.
Tata Steel ended at Rs 263.85, down 1.47 per cent,
Jindal Iron & Steel ended lower by 3.40 per cent at Rs 275.40
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UTI ties up with post offices for MF schemes
New Delhi: The Department of Posts (DoP) and UTI Mutual Fund have announced a strategic tie-up for distribution of the latter's mutual fund schemes through select post offices.

Initially, UTI MF will be focusing on retailing five schemes through 50 post offices across the country, which is expected to cross 1,000 in the next few years.

The schemes on offer are the UTI Children's Career Plan (which provides for higher education through scholarships), UTI Variable Investment Scheme, UTI Mahila Unit Scheme aimed at providing an investment vehicle for women, UTI Mastershare Unit Scheme, and UTI Linked Insurance Plan, the fund's largest scheme.

UTI MF has conducted a five-day training programme for postal employees to help them achieve the status of 'certified advisors' for distribution of mutual fund products.

The DoP already distributes mutual funds for Prudential ICICI, SBI Mutual Fund and Principal Mutual Fund.
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SEBI reiterates norms on insider trading for AMCs
Kolkata: In response to a query raised by HDFC Mutual Fund, SEBI has reiterated the provisions of Regulation 13(3) of SEBI Insider Trading Amendment Regulations, 2002, which state that any person who holds more than five per cent shares or voting rights in any listed company will have to disclose to the company the number of shares or voting rights held.

To be also disclosed are changes in shareholding or voting rights, even if such changes result in shareholding falling below five per cent.

There is no indication to the effect that an individual scheme is a separate legal personality. All provisions in the regulations referring to individual schemes are in the nature of obligations of the AMC in respect of each scheme. Therefore, the threshold limit (for informing the companies) is to be complied with when the sum total of all scheme holdings in a particular company exceeds the limit.

The guidance pertains to HDFC MF's move regarding the interpretation of SEBI's insider trading rules. Holdings of some of the 19 schemes managed by the fund in listed companies are beyond the threshold limit of five per cent, it was pointed out. It was stated that on a given day (in the course of trading by some of these schemes), there may be in changes in their shareholding.
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