Mint Explainer: How variable capital cos, announced in Budget, will boost fund flow in Gift IFSC

Mint Explainer: How variable capital cos, announced in Budget, will boost fund flow in Gift IFSC

The government will enable pooled private equity fund structures through VCCs, a system popular in tax-friendly jurisdictions such as Singapore and Mauritius. Mint explores the details of VCCs and how they are likely to be attractive to overseas investors. What are variable capital companies? Unlike typical funds where investors share risks and rewards uniformly, a … Read more

How Aditya Birla Sun Life MF, one of India’s first global Gift City funds, works

How Aditya Birla Sun Life MF, one of India’s first global Gift City funds, works

The fund is a close-ended Category II alternative investment fund (AIF). It has a term of 4.5 years, which can be extended by another year with the consent of two-thirds of its investors. It will feed into the ARGA Emerging Market Equity Fund. ARGA is a US-based asset manager with about $15 billion worth of … Read more

SEBI mulls boosting NRI/ OCI participation in IFSC-based FPIs. Details here

SEBI mulls boosting NRI/ OCI participation in IFSC-based FPIs. Details here

The current FPI regulations issued by SEBI states that NRIs or OCIs or RIs may be constituents of the FPI, however, the contribution of a single NRI or OCI or RI shall be below 25% of the total contribution in the corpus of the FPI and the aggregate contribution of NRIs, OCIs and RIs shall … Read more