In-principle registration

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

• Client level segregationThe SEBI rule that no single client may receive both advisory and distribution services from the same investment adviser group — each client is one or the other, never both.
• 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.
• Financial planningThe process of estimating what a person will need money for across their lifetime and building an investment plan to meet each of those needs — savings with a purpose attached.
• 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.
• InsiderAnyone who is a connected person, or who simply possesses or has access to unpublished price sensitive information — possession alone is enough, with no relationship to the company required.
• KYC Registration AgencyA SEBI-created agency that holds an investor's verified KYC record centrally, so that one KYC completed with any securities market intermediary works with all the others.