In the event the Client has any grievance on the services standards or reporting that the Portfolio Manager has agreed to provide, then the Client shall write to Customer Services Team of the Portfolio Manager at customerservice@banyantreeadvisors.com or Tel -91 80 46428500. The Customer Services Team shall acknowledge the receipt of email within 2 working days. Further, Customer Services Team shall, within a period of 21 (Twenty-one) calendar days from the date of receipt of the complaint and write to the Client in the form of an Action Taken Report (ATR) stating the action taken, and where the grievance is of the nature that can be repetitive, the steps taken so that the grievance does not arise again.
Where the Client is not satisfied with the ATR of the concern, then the client shall write to the Director In charge of Customer Services Team – vishal.thakkar@banyantreeadvisors.com – Tel: +91 22 25677280. The timelines specified for the Customer Services Team relating to acknowledge and the timelines for writing to the Client in the form of an ATR shall be applicable to the Director In charge of Customer Services Team also.
In the event the Client is not satisfied with the resolution provided by the Customer Services Team or the Director In charge of Customer Services Team, the Client can contact Principal Officer principalofficer@banyantreeadvisors.com Tel – 91 80 46428500
In case, the investors does not get a response from the Portfolio Manager, or not satisfied with the response provided by the Portfolio Manager, he/she may approach SEBI to address complaints against the Portfolio Managers, registered with it. The complaint has to be filed in SEBI Complaints Redress System (SCORES) at https://scores.gov.in/scores/Welcome.html
After exhausting all aforementioned options for resolution, if the client is not satisfied, they can initiate dispute resolution through the Online Dispute Resolution Portal (ODR) at https://smartodr.in/login .
Alternatively, the client can directly initiate dispute resolution through the ODR Portal if the grievance lodged with the Portfolio Manager is not satisfactorily resolved or at any stage of the subsequent escalations mentioned above.
The dispute resolution through the ODR Portal can be initiated when the complaint/dispute is not under consideration in SCOREs guidelines or not pending before any arbitral process, court, tribunal or consumer forum or are non-arbitrable in terms of Indian law.
The process on Online Dispute Resolution Mechanism is available at https://www.banyantreeadvisors.com/invest-with-us/grievance-redressal-and-dispute-settlement-mechanism/