Portfolio Management Service

What is Portfolio Management?

Portfolio management includes prioritizing, choosing the right investments, and strategising to achieve good returns. It simply refers to overseeing a person’s financial investments. The portfolio may consist of cash, bonds, mutual funds, or any other investment. This process needs a strong understanding of the stock market and the ability to direct investments.

Who is a Portfolio Manager?

A portfolio manager is a professional responsible for investments and efficiently handling a portfolio of assets. Solid portfolio management requires developing the best investment plan to match your income, age, and risk-taking capacity. Furthermore, to reduce the risk effectively, the portfolio manager needs to develop a customized solution for buying and selling assets.

Key Elements of Portfolio Management:

To achieve the desired outcome, investors need to account for certain concepts when building a strong portfolio. These are some crucial components of portfolio management.
  • Active Portfolio Management
  • Passive Portfolio Management
  • Discretionary Portfolio management services
  • Non-Discretionary Portfolio management

This approach goes beyond managing your investments. Since it is an iterative process, comprehension of it is crucial. Formulating a portfolio strategy requires maintaining a manageable portfolio with a customized investment plan.

  • Step 1: Identifying the objective
  • Step 2: Estimating capital markets
  • Step 3: Asset Allocation
  • Step 4: Formulation of a Portfolio Strategy
  • Step 5: Implementing portfolio 
  • Step 6: Evaluating portfolio

The Bottom Line:

Implementing an investment strategy and managing day-to-day portfolio trading is an important component of portfolio management. Following some guidelines for portfolio management not only provides cushioning against risk but also maximizes returns successfully.

Alternative Investment Fund

What is an Alternative Investment Fund?

Alternative Investment Fund or AIF is a privately pooled investment vehicle that invests in alternative asset classes such as private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, real estate, commodities, and derivatives. Generally, HNIs (High net worth individuals) and institutions invest in the AIFs as the investment amount is substantially higher.

AIFs are regulated by the SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India). As per the SEBI (Alternative Investment Funds) Regulations, 2012, an AIF can be set up as a trust, a company, a limited liability partnership, or a corporate body. However, many of the AIFs that have been registered with SEBI are in the form of trusts.

Types of AIFs in India

SEBI has categorised Alternative Investment Funds into 3 categories:

  • Venture Capital Fund (VCF)
  • Angel Funds
  • Infrastructure Funds
  • Social Venture Funds
  • Private Equity Funds
  • Debt Funds
  • Fund of Funds
  • Private Investment in Public Equity Fund (PIPE)
  • Hedge Funds

Who Can Invest in an AIF?

Investors willing to diversify their portfolio can invest in AIFs if they meet the following eligibility criteria:

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