JioBlackRock Arbitrage Fund launched: 7 essential insights for mutual fund investors

JioBlackRock Arbitrage Fund: 7 things investors must know

1. The NFO opens for subscription on December 9, 2025 and closes on December 11, 2025.

2. No entry load will be charged by the scheme.

3. In respect of each purchase/switch-in of units, an exit load of 0.25% is payable if units are redeemed/ switched-out on or before 15 days from the date of allotment.

4. No exit load is payable if units are redeemed/switched out after 15 days from the date of allotment.

5. The minimum subscription amount is ₹500 and any amount thereafter.

6. The performance of the scheme will be benchmarked with Nifty 50 Arbitrage (TRI).

7. Fund managers of JioBlackRock Arbitrage Fund are Anand Shah, Haresh Mehta, Siddharth Deb and Arun Ramachandran.

The fund manager will evaluate the difference between the price of a stock in the futures market and in the spot market.

If the price of a stock in the futures market is higher than in the spot market, after adjusting for costs and taxes, the scheme shall buy the stock in the spot market and sell the same stock in equal quantity in the futures market, simultaneously.

The scheme will endeavor to build similar market-neutral positions that offer an arbitrage potential, for e.g. buying the basket of index constituents in the cash or futures segment and selling the index futures, etc.

The scheme would also look to avail of opportunities between one futures contract and another.

The fund manager shall use derivatives within the permissible limits actively in addition to hedging and rebalancing the portfolio subject to the regulations and the investment objectives and the terms of the scheme set out elsewhere in this Scheme Information Document.

The New Fund Offer (NFO) opens on December 9, 2025, and closes on December 23, 2025.No Entry load will be charged by the Scheme. The Exit Load will be 0.25% of the applicable NAV, if redeemed on or before 15 days from the date of allotment. The minimum subscription amount is Rs 5,000/- and in multiple of Re.1/- thereafter.

The performance of the Scheme will be benchmarked with BSE Multicap Consumption 50:30:20 Index (TRI) and its fund managers are Nitin Bharat Sharma and Rakesh Prajapati.

The investment objective of the scheme is to provide returns, before expenses, that commensurate with the performance of BSE Multicap Consumption 50:30:20 Index (TRI), subject to tracking error.