AUM for Benchmarking

This one is not written up yet

The definition above is the short version. A full explanation — how it works, a worked example and the exam traps — is still being written. In the meantime the chapter below covers it in context.

Written up from the same chapter

• Absolute-return benchmarkA fixed percentage return, set by the manager when the scheme launches, against which an absolute-return strategy is judged instead of a market index.
• Adverse selectionThe risk of ending up with the wrong manager — picking a fund on a track record or a forward-looking statement that does not predict performance, and getting sub-optimal returns or moral hazard instead.
• AlphaThe return a fund earned above what its beta and the benchmark say it should have earned — the slice of performance left over once the market has been given credit for its share.
• BenchmarkThe independently published index a scheme's performance is measured against, chosen to match its investment objective, asset allocation and strategy, and disclosed in the Scheme Information Document.
• Concentration riskThe risk that a few positions are large enough, against the fund's capital, that one loss damages the whole portfolio — capped by SEBI at 25% of investable funds for Category I and II AIFs and 10% for Category III.
• Cyber Security RiskThe risk that an AIF's or its service providers' systems are breached, corrupted or disrupted — governed by SEBI's Cyber Security and Cyber Resilience Framework, which all AIFs had to comply with by 31 August 2025.