The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has launched a mutual fund (MF) transaction platform in a move to allow independent financial advisers (IFAs) and MF distributors to buy and sell MF units including those of capital-protected funds directly on the stock exchange. The new platform, BSE StAR MFD, is the exchange’s initiative to leave behind the old system whereby advisers had to go through registered stockbrokers to execute trades. According to SRP data, 1457 structured funds have been launched in