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Vasupradah Investment Advisory Services Pvt. Ltd. (VIAPL) a SEBI Registered Investment Adviser, SEBI registration Number INA000020059

VIAPL offers investment advisory services and charges clients a fee for advice.

Beware of Impostors!

Lately there has been an increase in impostors reaching out to investors and soliciting money claiming  to be a Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) These people go missing once money is given to them incurring financial loss and mental trauma to investors.

It is extremely important to take precautions and ensure that you are dealing with a genuine SEBI Registered Investment Adviser (and not a fraudster or an unregistered person).

Few modus operandi being used by these people are listed below, though this is no way a compressive list .Please do your due diligence of such invitations before you take any decision.

• They create profiles on social media platforms such as Twitter, Telegram, Instagram and Facebook and post snapshots of good performance on these platforms and lure investors with unrealistic profits.
  • Reach out to investors over phone, email, or any other mode claiming to be Registered Investment Advisors (RIA).
  • They also take the trouble of creating fake profiles of popular SEBI registered Analysts/Advisers on social media platforms. There has been instances where fake mobile apps have been created too. The look of the profiles and platforms look very similar to the ones who are registered with SEBI.
  • The details of all SEBI registered Investment advisors are available on the website of SEBI, so please check. You can follow this link.

https://www.sebi.gov.in/sebiweb/other/OtherAction.do?doRecognisedFpi=yes&intmI d=13)

SEBI Regulations Stipulates the following, so please ensure.

• Investment Advisory Agreement between the RIA and the investor (client) is mandatory and must be executed before you transfer any fee to the Registered Investment Adviser (RIA) or the RIA offers you any investment advice.
• Before offering any advice, the Registered Investment Adviser (RIA) must conduct a risk-profiling exercise with the investor.
• Registered Investment Advisors (RIA) are not permitted to take custody of investor money.
• RIAs can only provide Investment Advice.
• RIAs cannot transact on your behalf. RIAs are not permitted to accept Power of Attorney from investors.
• SEBI regulations permit only two types of fees. (a) Fixed fee capped at Rs 1.51 lacs per annum. (b) Asset Based Fee: Capped at 2.5% per annum.
• SEBI regulations do not permit any kind of profit-sharing arrangement between the Investor and the RIA.
• SEBI has released “Most Important Terms and Conditions (MITC)”for investment advisory agreement between the investors and RIAs. Please read the SEBI mandates that such MITC should be part of your agreement with any RIA.

SEBI has also advised public to deal with only SEBI Registered Investment Advisors and Research Analysts via a Press Release (PR No. 112/2016).

Things you must satisfy

• Ensure you are dealing with a genuine RIA before transferring any funds or acting on his/her advice.
• Ask the person to share the SEBI registration number and cross check the same on the SEBI Website.
• Request the adviser to send an email or call you from the email or number listed on SEBI website.
• Arrange a physical meeting or schedule a voice call (video call preferable) before signing up or transferring any money to the adviser. this website).

Things we do before we advise you.

• We will sign (or have already signed) an Investment Advisory Agreement with you before asking for any fee payment and you will be allotted a unique client ID by us.
• We will conduct a risk-profiling exercise before offering any investment advice and this would be shared with you along with client agreement duly signed by our Principle Officer.
• We will never ask you to transfer money to our account or any other account to invest on your behalf.
• SEBI regulations explicitly prohibit any monetary transactions between the investor and RIA except for the advisory fee. The only monetary transaction between you and us will be our fee payment as agreed by us and signed.
• We will send our fee invoice only through an email. Such email ids will be mentioned in our agreement. No other mode of requesting fee will be sent by us.

Note: While it in not possible to cover all possible grounds of suspicion, we have tried our best to list some of them. Be careful and when in doubt about veracity of the sender, please write to us on the official mail id given on our website as well on the agreement.

Be alert. Be vigilant.