NRIs can invest in units of the schemes on a fully repatriable basis or a non-repatriable basis where the principal is non-repatriable but the income distributions are repatriable. Purchase on Repatriable Basis: You are requested to make the payments by using the cheque from an NRE account or draft from an FCNR account maintained with banks authorized to deal in foreign exchange in India. NRE accounts can be opened in public sector or private sector banks in India. Send your application forms along with the payment at our Investor Service Center at the following address: SBIMF Investors Service Centre, Ilaco House, 2 nd Floor, Sir P.M Road, Fort, Mumbai - 400 001 . On confirmation of the documents sent by you, we will allot the units of the scheme at the NAV based prices prevailing on that day. If the payment is through foreign currency draft, the units will be allotted on the date of realization. Thereafter an account statement will be mailed to you within 5 working days. Purchase on Non-Repatriable Basis : Please use cheque from an NRO account maintained with banks authorized to deal in foreign exchange in India. NRO accounts can be opened in public sector or private sector banks in India. Send your application forms along with the payment at the following address: SBIMF Investors Service Centre, Ilaco House, 2 nd Floor, Sir P.M Road, Fort, Mumbai - 400 001. On confirmation of the documents sent by you, we will allot the units of the scheme at the NAV based prices prevailing on that day. If the payment is through foreign currency draft, the units will be allotted on the date of realization. Thereafter an account statement will be mailed to you within 5 working days. Special Instruction: You are requested to instruct the bank branch through which you plan to make the remittance as to whether you have the NRE/ FCNR/ Special Non-resident Rupee Account to send the necessary FIRCs in original on security paper to the registrars to enable early processing of the application. A copy of these instructions to the bank may also be enclosed along with the application to expedite the follow-up by the registrars. FII Investors: FIIs may pay for their subscription amounts by way of Indian rupee drafts purchased abroad or out of the funds held in their Foreign Currency account or Non-Resident Rupee account maintained in a designated branch of an authorized dealer. The Rupee drafts/cheque should be made payable at a city where the application is accepted by any of the SBI MF official points of acceptance of transactions.

The cheque/DD should be payable or drawn on the location where the application is submitted and accepted i.e. at the official points of acceptance of transactions of SBI Mutual Fund.

No. Overseas bank account details are not accepted as the payment is in Indian rupees by way of cheque/direct credits.

If an application is received at the official point of acceptance before the specified cut-off time on any business day, the allotment of units at the NAV of the business day shall be applicable, with adjustments for any entry load, if any, as per the provisions of the Offer Document of the relevant scheme. All applications received after the prescribed time will be treated as having been received on the next business day and the units shall be allotted accordingly.

A switch has the effect of redemption (based on the redemption price on the business day of acceptance of switching request) from one scheme/plan/option and the net proceeds will be invested in the other scheme(s) at the prevailing Purchase Price for units as purchase in the other scheme/plan/option to which the switching has been done. However, the differential applicable Entry Load will be payable. (The entry load, of the scheme into which the investor is switching in to will be reduced by Entry and/or Exit Load already paid by the investor in the scheme he/she is switching out from as per the provisions in the Offer Documents of the relevant/respective schemes.)

In order to redeem funds the investor needs to submit the redemption request in original at the nearest official point of acceptance of transactions. All the redemption request forms must contain the investor's folio number, the amount/name of the schemes/unit he/she would like to redeem and should be duly signed by the unit holders on record or their Power Of Attorney (POA) holders. Redemption requests that lack valid signatures will not be accepted. Redemption on Repatriable basis: In order to redeem your investments from the scheme partly or fully, fill up the redemption form which is send along with the account statement. Send it to us the following address: SBIMF Investors Service Centre, Ilaco House, 2 nd Floor, Sir P.M Road, Fort, Mumbai - 400 001. We will process your request on the date on which we receive your redemption application at our office. We will send the redemption proceeds (with tax deduction at source) to the bank branch where you have your NRE account. An account statement will be sent to you at your address. You can repatriate the proceeds with the choice of currency from the bank. Redemption on Non-Repatriable basis: In order to redeem your investment from the schemes partly or fully, fill up the redemption form which is with the account statement. Send it to us the following address: SBIMF Investors Service Centre, Ilaco House, 2 nd Floor, Sir P.M Road, Fort, Mumbai - 400 001. We will process your request on the date on which we receive your redemption application at our office. We will send the redemption proceeds (with tax deduction at source) at a bank branch where you have your NRO account. An account statement will be sent to you at your address.

Yes.

Yes. An NRI can be a nominee subject to the RBI Exchange Control Regulations from time to time.

Yes. An NRI investor can have a joint holding with a Resident Indian or a Non-Resident Indian in a scheme of SBI Mutual Fund.

The NRI investor can log on to www.sbimf.com and request for a customer ID through which he can manage his investments online. Apart from these, the fact sheets are put up on a monthly basis, which contains details like portfolio and performance for a given period.