An Infrastructure Investment Trust is a collective investment scheme that allows individuals & institutions to invest directly in infrastructure projects. Read more about Infrastructure Investment Trust (InvIT), Features, Latest News
Infrastructure Investment Trust (InvIT) Latest News
Recently, National Highways Authority of India received the Securities and Exchange Board of India’s (SEBI) in-principle approval for ‘Raajmarg Infra Investment Trust’ (RIIT) as an Infrastructure Investment Trust (InvIT).
About Infrastructure Investment Trust (InvIT)
- It is Collective Investment Scheme similar to a mutual fund, which enables direct investment of money from individual and institutional investors in infrastructure projects
- These are like mutual funds in structure which can be established as a trust and registered with Sebi.
- Objective: To provide retail investors with access to investment opportunities in infrastructure projects, which were previously only available to large institutional investors.
Features of the Infrastructure Investment Trust (InvIT)
- An InvIT has 4 parties namely; Trustee, Sponsor(s) and Investment Manager and Project Manager.
- INVITs are created by sponsors, who are typically infrastructure companies or private equity firms.
- The sponsor sets up the INVITs and transfers ownership of the underlying infrastructure assets to the trust.
- The trust then issues units to investors, which represent an ownership stake in the trust and thus the underlying assets.
- While the trustee (certified by Sebi) has the responsibility of inspecting the performance of an InvIT, sponsor(s) are promoters of the company that set up the InvIT.
- InvITs are regulated by the SEBI (Infrastructure Investment Trusts) Regulations, 2014.
Source: PIB
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