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The new rule that executives need to invest 20% of their pay into their own funds has sparked an uproar. Will the regulator stand its ground?

After years of trying to make mutual fund house executives accountable for the performance of their funds, the Securities and Exchange Board of India finally bit the bullet last week by putting out a circular, which despite being muddled, set the cat among the pigeons.
The 28 April circular from SEBI states, among other things, that 20% of the salaries of key mutual fund house executives should be invested in units of the schemes over which they have oversight or are managed by them.
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