Sebi for easy entry of insurers, pension funds

To encourage robust inflows into the Reits and Investment Trusts markets

Capital markets regulator Sebi is planning to ease entry barriers for domestic institutional investors like insurers and pension funds to encourage robust inflows into the Reits and Investment Trusts (InvITs) markets.

“Sebi is sitting down with the Irdai and the PFRDA to evolve a set of guidelines to ensure that insurers and pension funds do not face much of entry barriers into the Reits and InvITs. This is what we are working on now,” Sebi whole-time member G Mahalingam said on Friday.

“This is definitely going to come through at some point in time. I am sure the norms will come out