ASK Investment Managers launches flexicap Alternate Investment Fund 

MUMBAI: ASK Investment Managers Ltd. has launched digital onboarding for its Alternate Investment Fund (AIF), the primary of its form within the business. The ASK Emerging Opportunities Fund, a close-ended Category-III, long-only AIF is a flexi-cap portfolio with a mid-cap bias and can put money into listed Indian equities. With the federal government’s deal with Atmanirbhar Bharat and PLI Schemes geared toward decreasing dependence on imports and boosting exports, this fund goals to put money into beneficiaries of various sectors comparable to speciality chemical substances, footwear, diagnostics, area of interest digital applied sciences, amongst others.

The time period of the scheme is seven years with two years of lock-in from the ultimate closing and can goal to boost investments from excessive web price and extremely excessive web price people, who’re aiming for constant wealth creation over long-term. The fund is focusing on to boost Rs1,000 crore. 

Another distinctive characteristic of the AIF is that this shall be first of its form within the nine-year-old AIF business to have the complete means of opening accounts and documentation be fully paperless and hassle-free. ASK IM’s platform is enabled for Digital Signatures utilizing the Aadhaar e-Sign platform. It can also be built-in with cost gateway making the complete course of is seamless and built-in on a real-time foundation with its backend programs thereby offering a seamless digital journey. The solely pre-requisite being that the investor must be CKYC compliant.

Speaking on the launch, Sunil Rohokale, MD & CEO, ASK Group, mentioned, “With conventional avenues of investing now giving single-digit returns, buyers want to diversify their holdings and exploit alternatives from the pandemic-induced dislocations, comparable to fast adoption of digital modes of enterprise, and a name for self-sufficiency & self-reliance. Many worldwide corporations are a China-plus One technique and several other Indian industries stand to profit from this case require capital infusion. As per current Sebi knowledge, AIFs noticed commitments price ₹82,228 crore in FY21 from Institutions, household places of work and excessive net-worth people who want to put money into such alternatives.”

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