The return expectations of investors in debt real estate alternative investment funds (AIF) lowered during the Covid-19 pandemic, but hopes in equity AIFs stayed afloat, said people intrinsically connected with these debt funds in real estate.
AIFs are privately pooled investment funds approved by the capital markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India for different categories of asset classes.
The reason for the lowered expectations is that the returns from traditional investments, such as credit-risk mutual funds (MFs), have dropped 200-300 basis points (bps) and credit AIFs still generating better returns. Credit-risk MFs are funds that invest 65 per cent of

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