Security and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)
The final investigation report pertaining to the Saradha scam has been submitted to the Government’s Corporate Affairs Ministry by the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO). The submission of the report comes after the SFIO’s year-long investigation into the scam, in which thousands of crores of rupees were swindled from lakhs of investors in West Bengal, [...] Continue Reading »
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) are expected to raise a whopping $10 billion this fiscal itself after it was launched in the maiden budget presented on July 10. They are expected to provide relief to the real estate industry which has been reeling under the liquidity crunch for the last few years. REITs would get [...] Continue Reading »
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has requested the government to provide a clear picture on tax benefits for the latest products like REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts) and Infrastructure Investment Trusts. This is expected to boost the capital markets. Regulator SEBI is soon to finalise the norms for REITs once there is [...] Continue Reading »
According to the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), Puravankara Projects commercial real estate scheme does not fall under the collective investment scheme (CIS) category because the scheme did not involve any offer for pooling of funds for assured returns. Sebi’s viewpoint on the commercial real estate scheme floated by Puravankara Projects comes in [...] Continue Reading »
The property developer Vijay Shanthi Builders Ltd has now decided to raise Rupees 65 crore through Non-Convertible Debuntures from the IDFC real estate fund. The ability to raise funds has been crippled because of the sluggish growth in the economy. Companies which have faced this dilemma are the banks, the financial institutions which have been [...] Continue Reading »
Azure Capital, a private equity name in the market manages India Realty Fund-I ( IRF-I), and the private player now has announced profit distribution for the second time, which it has earned by scope of Fund May 18, says a source. Fund May 18 has five percent of its income distributed too, this would be [...] Continue Reading »
The regulator for the securities market in India, Security and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), has allowed 12 new units to set up Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs). An AIF is a new set of pooled-in investment vehicles for real estate, private equity and hedge funds, in the last two months of October and November 2012. [...] Continue Reading »
Security and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) planned to formulate new Alternative Investment Fund (AIF) Regulations. The new regulation may not allow PE funds to accept less than Rs 1 crore investment from an investor. According to real estate market experts, with this regulation many small PE funds will be affected. It is analyzed a [...] Continue Reading »
