Custodial agreement

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

• Contribution AgreementThe agreement between one investor, the trustee and the investment manager that sets the terms on which that investor participates in the AIF — the contract that turns a commitment into units.
• Investment Advisory AgreementThe agreement under which an offshore fund takes non-binding investment advice from an on-site Indian advisor — advice, not management, which is exactly what keeps the two roles apart.
• Investment Management AgreementThe agreement between the trustee, acting for the AIF, and the investment manager, by which the trustee delegates its entire investment management power — and by which the manager can later be removed.
• Investor CharterSEBI's published statement of what an investor is entitled to from an intermediary — the services, the rights, the dos and don'ts, and a table of activities with the timeline each one must be completed in.
• Private placement memorandumThe offer document of a Category III AIF, filed with SEBI through a merchant banker at least 30 days before a scheme launches — and the document SEBI comments on but never approves.
• SettlorThe party who brings an AIF trust into existence — executing the trust deed with the trustee and conveying the initial sum that becomes the trust's first asset.