The prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002, mandated the The Know You Client, wherein, all the financial and non-financial institutions are required to maintain and verify their clients’ information.
The information must pertain to their clients’ credit information as to their past debt records, if any, for example, if the client is a borrower of a home loan or a car loan, their payment patterns, look out for any hitches in their loan repayment, if they have followed a systematic pursuit of paying their utilities bills etc.
Investors investing in mutual funds must complete the KYC formalities with an identified service provider, CDSL Ventures . This is a one-time exercise and applies to investments in all mutual funds registered by Sebi. The application for buying units for the first time must be accompanied by the KYC acknowledgement.
Existing MF holders who are unaware of this routine, are advised to complete this procedure before making additional investments.
How to go about it?
- Download the form from from http://tinyurl.com/5ugpkq7.
- Provide your personal details such as occupation, income level etc.
- Provide your identity proof for example pan card details and your address proof like driver’s licence, passport etc.
- The application has to be submitted at designated points of presence of CDSL Ventures which can also be downloaded from http://tinyurl.com/3mxmv2h.
Things to remember:
- Only after receiving the KYC acknowledgement from the concerned point of presence or investor service centre only can invest in invest in MFs.
- Identity proof and address proof are verified at the time of accepting the application and copies are appended to the application.
- At the time of presenting the documents for verification see to it that they have not expired.