Carried Interest
The international name for additional returns, or simply carry — the manager's incentive for outperforming the hurdle rate, customarily 20 per cent in a 2-20 structure, though this is not standard in India.
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
- Catch up clauseThe waterfall step that pays the manager a set share — often 100% — of the profit left after investors receive their capital and hurdle, until the manager reaches its agreed share of total profit.
- ClawbackAn investor right to recover carried interest already paid to the manager on early successful exits, when later failed investments mean the manager was overpaid across the fund's whole life.
- Co-investmentInvestment by a manager, sponsor or investor of a Category I or II AIF directly into an investee company that the AIF is itself investing in, alongside the fund rather than through it.
- Fit and proper personThe character and record test in Schedule II of the SEBI (Intermediaries) Regulations, 2008 that an AIF's applicant, sponsor and manager must satisfy for registration and must keep satisfying afterwards.
- SponsorThe person or firm that sets up the mutual fund — applies to SEBI for registration, executes the trust deed in favour of the trustees, and puts up the capital of the AMC.
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