{"id":1868,"date":"2021-12-13T10:07:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T10:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rvkassociates.com\/blog\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2021-12-13T10:08:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T10:08:01","slug":"publishing-investor-charter-and-disclosure-of-complaints-by-aifs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rvks.in\/blogs\/publishing-investor-charter-and-disclosure-of-complaints-by-aifs\/","title":{"rendered":"Publishing Investor Charter and Disclosure of complaints by AIFs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

December 10, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To,<\/strong>

All SEBI registered Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. 1.<\/strong> With a view to providing relevant information to investors about the various activities pertaining to AIFs, an Investor Charter has been prepared by SEBI.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
    1. 2.<\/strong> This Investor Charter is a brief document containing details of services provided to investors, details of grievance redressal mechanism, responsibilities of the investors etc., at one single place, in lucid language for ease of reference.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
      1. 3.<\/strong> In this regard, all AIFs are advised to take necessary steps to bring the Investor Charter, as per \u2018Annexure \u2013 X\u2019, to the notice of their investors in the following manner :
        1. a) In case of new schemes, disclose Investor Charter in the Private Placement Memorandum (PPM);<\/li>
        2. b) In case of existing schemes, as a one time measure, disclose Investor Charter to the investors on their registered e-mail.<\/li><\/ol><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
          1. 4.<\/strong> Additionally, in order to bring about further transparency in the Investor Grievance Redressal Mechanism, it has been decided that data on investor complaints received against AIFs and each of their schemes and redressal status thereof shall be disclosed by all AIFs as per format at \u2018Annexure Y\u2019, in the following manner:
            1. a) For new schemes, as a separate chapter in the PPM;<\/li>
            2. b) For existing schemes, by way of updating the PPM within one month of end of each financial year in terms of SEBI Circular No. SEBI\/HO\/IMD\/IMDI\/DOF6\/CIR\/2021\/549 dated April 7, 2021.<\/li><\/ol><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
              1. 5.<\/strong> For effective monitoring, AIFs shall maintain data on investor complaints as per Annexure Y, which shall be compiled latest within 7 days from the end of quarter.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
                1. 6.<\/strong> These disclosure requirements are in addition to the existing requirements pertaining to the investor grievance handling mechanism under various Regulations, circulars and directions, issued by SEBI.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

                  7.<\/strong> The provisions of this circular shall come into effect from January 01, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  1. 8.<\/strong> This circular is issued in exercise of powers conferred under Section 11(1) of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992, to protect the interests of investors in securities market and to promote the development of, and to regulate the securities market.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
                    1. 9.<\/strong> The circular is available on SEBI website at www.sebi.gov.in under the category “Legal Framework-Circulars” and “Info for – Alternative Investment Funds\u201d.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

                      Yours faithfully,

                      Deepti Agrawal
                      General Manager<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                      To Read More….
                      Click the link below….<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                      https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/dbyr7ygzwb2kg97\/Publishing%20Investor%20Charter%20and%20Disclosure%20of%20complaints%20by%20AIFs.pdf?dl=0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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                      December 10, 2021 To, All SEBI registered Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) 1. With a view to providing relevant information to investors about the various activities pertaining to AIFs, an Investor Charter has been prepared by SEBI. 2. This Investor Charter is a brief document containing details of services provided to investors, details of grievance redressal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,85],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-1868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-circulars","category-sebi","tag-sebi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvks.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvks.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvks.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvks.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvks.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rvks.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1869,"href":"https:\/\/rvks.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions\/1869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvks.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvks.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvks.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvks.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}