GIIN

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

• Accredited InvestorAn investor certified by an accreditation agency as meeting SEBI's income or net-worth tests, and therefore allowed into products on relaxed terms — including below the Rs 1 crore AIF floor.
• Compliance Test ReportThe annual self-certification an AIF manager prepares in SEBI's prescribed format, testing the fund against the AIF Regulations and routed through the sponsor and trustee for comment.
• Connected personA person whose association with a company in the six months before the act put them, or could reasonably be expected to put them, in a position to access unpublished price sensitive information.
• Credit Default SwapA contract in which a protection buyer pays a regular premium to a protection seller, who agrees to pay any loss in value on a specified reference obligation if a credit event such as default occurs.
• 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.
• Principal officerThe named individual at a non-individual intermediary who carries personal regulatory responsibility for the advisory business, and who must personally hold the prescribed qualification and NISM certification.