{"id":355384,"date":"2025-08-02T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T06:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=355384"},"modified":"2025-08-02T12:43:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T07:13:47","slug":"rbi-issues-directions-investment-in-alternative-investment-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2025\/08\/02\/rbi-issues-directions-investment-in-alternative-investment-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"RBI lays down Directions on Investment in Alternative Investment Funds Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">On 29-7-2025, the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Reserve Bank of India (\u2018RBI\u2019)<\/span> notified the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Reserve Bank of India (Investment in AIF) Directions, 2025<\/span> to regulate and streamline the how banks and other financial institutions invest in <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Alternative Investment Funds (\u2018AIFs\u2019).<\/span> The provisions will come into effect from 1-1-2026 unless the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Regulated Entity (\u2018RE\u2019)<\/span> decided for any other date as per its internal policy.<\/p>\n<h3>Applicable to investments by the following RE in units of Alternative Investment Funds Schemes:<\/h3>\n<ol style=\"list-style-type: decimal;\">\n<li>Commercial Banks (including Small Finance Banks, Local Area Banks and Regional Rural Banks);<\/li>\n<li>Primary (Urban) Co-operative Banks\/ State Co-operative Banks\/ Central Co-operative Banks;<\/li>\n<li>All-India Financial Institutions;<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">Non-Banking Financial Companies (including Housing Finance Companies).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Key Points:<\/h3>\n<ol style=\"list-style-type: decimal;\">\n<li>The investment policy of the RE should have suitable provisions governing its investments in an <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Alternative Investment Funds Scheme<\/span>.<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Limits on Investments and Provisioning:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">\n<li>RE cannot individually contribute more than 10% of the corpus of an <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Alternative Investment Funds Scheme<\/span>;<\/li>\n<li>Collective contribution by all the REs cannot be rmore than 20% of the corpus of that scheme;<\/li>\n<li>In case any RE contributes more than 5% of the corpus, which has downstream investment (excluding equity instruments) in a debtor company of the RE, then:\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">\n<li>the RE will be required to make 100% provision for its proportionate investment in the debtor company through the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Alternative Investment Funds Scheme;<\/span><\/li>\n<li>This provision is capped at maximum of the RE\u2019s direct loan and\/ or investment exposure to the debtor 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