Discretionary portfolio manager

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

• ASBAThe mandatory payment mechanism for public and rights issues, in which your bank blocks the application money in your own account and debits it only if you actually get an allotment.
• DematerialisationConverting securities held as physical certificates into book-entry holdings: the certificates are defaced, mutilated and surrendered to the issuer, and an equivalent quantity is credited to the holder's demat account.
• Fiduciary capacityThe legal standing in which an investment adviser or portfolio manager must act — putting the client's interest ahead of its own and disclosing every conflict of interest as it arises.
• 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.
• Hurdle rateThe minimum return that must accrue to investors before the manager earns any incentive fee — the threshold that turns a fund's profit into the manager's profit.
• Portfolio managerA body corporate registered with SEBI that, under a contract with a client, advises on or manages that client's securities or funds — discretionary, non-discretionary or advisory.