PACRA Maintains Stability Rating of NIT Money Market Fund

NIT Money Market Fund (or the 'Fund') is a low-risk profile Fund. The assigned rating of the Fund reflects its good credit quality and its sound liquidity profile, which emanate primarily from its mandate to invest in Government securities and other low-duration avenues such as bank placement and ensuring low exposure to interest rate risk. The AUMs of the Fund standing at ~18,583mln (SPLY: ~12,300mln). The Fund had allocated ~84.35% of net assets in bank rated AAA. Whereas, allocation in the government securities was ~7% rated AAA. The WAM of the Fund stood at 13 days in the end Jun-22 (Dec-21: 6 days). While the duration of the Fund was also 13 days in the end Jun-22, limiting the exposure to credit and interest rate risk. The unit holding pattern of the Fund is highly concentrated with the top ten investors representing ~60% of the Fund's assets.
Going forward, the Fund intends to maintain its asset allocation towards higher-rated banks. Material changes in the Fund's asset allocation strategy, impacting its credit quality and/or exposure to interest rate risk, would affect the rating.

About the Entity
National Investment Trust Limited was established in 1962 and is a pioneer in the mutual fund industry. The Company’s Board of Directors currently comprises eleven board members out of which ten are non-executive. Mr. Adnan Afridi, CEO/MD who joined in Feb'19 holds profound experience in the financial services and capital markets. Mr. Manzoor Ahmed is the COO and has a successful track record of managing the operations and investment portfolio of the Company. The Company is currently one of the largest asset management companies in Pakistan with a portfolio of fourteen open-end funds which includes two non-public funds namely NIT-SEF and NIT-EMOF, two voluntary pension schemes, and an exchange-traded fund. The assets under management of the Company stood at ~PKR 96.34bln (including SEF & EMOF) end-Jun'22.