Tuesday, August 17, 2010

KYC Must for Any Investment Amount

The Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) has asked all asset management companies (AMCs) to make KYC (know-your-customer) norms mandatory for all non-individual and NRI investors irrespective of the amount of investment.

Under the present norm, KYC is mandatory only for investments above Rs 50,000.

In a letter sent to AMCs, AMFI has said that the mutual fund industry should go ahead with making KYC mandatory, irrespective of the amount of investment for all non-individual investors/NRIs/channel investors (high risk category) with effect from October 01, 2010. These categories will include corporate, partnership firms, trusts, HUF (Hindu undivided family), NRI and investors coming through channel distributors.

However for individual investors, a decision would be taken only after feedback from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).

The AMFI committee on KYC had made the proposal to lower the current threshold amount from Rs 50,000 to zero in a phased manner for different categories of investors and the proposal is still under consideration of SEBI. However, the AMFI committee has recommended that even as the proposal is pending clearance from SEBI, the mutual fund industry should remove the limit of Rs 50,000 for all non-individual investors and NRIs investors.

KYC norms were implemented from February 1, 2008, for all investors investing in mutual funds schemes amount of Rs 50,000 and above. It was done in order to comply with the Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2002.

For the convenience of investors, all mutual funds have made special arrangements with CDSL Ventures Ltd. (CVL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Central Depository Services (India) Ltd (CDSL).

Source: http://new.valueresearchonline.com/story/h2_storyView.asp?str=14989

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