{"id":545,"date":"2019-05-26T04:52:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T04:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biatconsultant.com\/blog\/?p=545"},"modified":"2019-05-26T04:52:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T04:52:11","slug":"categories-of-alternative-investment-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biatconsultant.com\/blog\/categories-of-alternative-investment-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Categories of Alternative Investment Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Categories of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biatconsultant.com\/alternative-investment-fund-registration\">Alternative Investment Funds are registered<\/a> and regulated as per the SEBI (Alternative Investment Funds), 2012. They are privately pooled investment vehicle who are in the business to collect funds from the sophisticated investors either Indian or otherwise and utilize them for the making the investment as per their policies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Categories of AIF<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we know the gist of the fact that there are three categories of Alternative Investment Funds, in this blog we will discuss in detail the categories of AIF. AIF regulation have clearly specified as 3 different categories of AIF, then can be registered in Regulation 3 (4) of chapter 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As per Alternative Investment Fund regulation, registration can be done with SEBI under any 3 of the three below mentioned category:-<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Category I<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under this category those funds are considered which can give good effect in the Indian economy. For example, if an investor is investing in startup, small and medium sized enterprise etc, then it is considered as good investment as these may give good effect in the economy of the country. These sectors are considered as socially or economically desirable and as result, government and sectors also gives discount, concession or incentive to them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Category I AIFs includes-<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Venture Capital Funds<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SME Funds<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Social Venture Funds<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Infrastructure Funds etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Category II<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Basically those which do not fall under category I and III fally under this category. They only take leverage and borrowings to meet operational requirements and such other activities permitted by the AIF regulations. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Category II includes-<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Private Equity Funds<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Debt Funds Etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Category III<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under this category diverse and complex trading strategies, unlike the other two categories. They can even make an investment in listed as well as unlisted derivatives. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This category includes<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hedge Funds<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Funds which trade with an objective to make short term returns <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Funds which are open ended etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Along with the application fees of Rs. 1,00,000\/- is to be paid, where no fees for its registration is required to pay. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Categories of Alternative Investment Funds are registered and regulated as per the SEBI (Alternative Investment Funds), 2012. They are privately pooled investment vehicle who are in the business to collect funds from the sophisticated investors either Indian or otherwise and utilize them for the making the investment as per their policies. &nbsp; Categories of AIF &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biatconsultant.com\/blog\/categories-of-alternative-investment-funds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Categories of Alternative Investment Funds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[288,293,294,291,289,290,292],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-registration","tag-aif-registration","tag-aif-registration-online","tag-aif-registration-with-sebi","tag-alternative-investment-fund-registration","tag-alternative-investment-fund-registration-online-in-india","tag-alternative-investment-fund-registration-online-in-india-with-sebi","tag-alternative-investment-funds-india"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Categories of Alternative Investment Funds - By BIATConsultant<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Contact BIATConsultant for alternative investment funds (AIF) registration online in India with SEBI in accordance with SEBI regulation\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biatconsultant.com\/blog\/categories-of-alternative-investment-funds\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Categories of Alternative Investment Funds - By BIATConsultant\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Contact BIATConsultant for alternative investment funds (AIF) registration online in India with SEBI in accordance with SEBI regulation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.biatconsultant.com\/blog\/categories-of-alternative-investment-funds\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Business , Financial &amp; 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