ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund has launched a new fund named as ICICI Prudential Retirement Fund - Hybrid Aggressive Plan, an open ended retirement solution oriented scheme having a lock-in of 5 years or till retirement age (whichever is earlier). The New Fund Offer (NFO) price for the scheme is Rs 10 per unit. The new issue will be open for subscription from 07 February 2019 to 21 February 2019.

The investment objective of the Scheme is an open ended hybrid scheme predominantly investing in equity and equity related securities to generate capital appreciation. The scheme may also invest in Debt, Gold/Gold ETF/units of REITs & InvITs and such other asset classes as may be permitted from time to time for income generation / wealth creation.

Presently, two options are available under the scheme viz. growth and dividend option with dividend payout only.

The scheme will invest 100% - 65% of its assets in Equity & Equity related instruments with medium to high risk profile, invest upto 35% of assets in debt and money market instruments with low to medium risk profile and invest upto 35% of assets in Gold, Gold ETFs, REITs and INVITs and any other security permitted by SEBI from time to time (subject to applicable limits) with medium to high risk profile.

The minimum application amount is Rs 5000 and in multiples of Rs 1 thereafter.

The minimum additional application amount is Rs 1000 and in multiples of Rs 1 thereafter.

The fund seeks to collect a minimum subscription amount of Rs 10 crore under the scheme during the NFO period.

Entry load and exit load charge are not applicable for the scheme.

Benchmark Index for the scheme is CRISIL Hybrid 35+65 - Aggressive Index.

The fund managers of the scheme are Mrinal Singh and Ashwin Jain for Equity portion and Manish Banthia & Anuj Tagra for Debt portion. The Overseas investments under the scheme will be managed by Priyanka Khandelwal.