The AMF ameded Book IV of the AMF General Regulation: standardisation of conduct business rules for fund marketing. The main amendment consists of a new provision aimed at standardising the way in which investment services providers market units and shares in collective investment schemes.
The aim is to ensure that persons who buy units or shares in these schemes benefit from identical treatment and protection, regardless of whether they invest through an asset management company or another investment services provider. This applies to matters such as client classification, prior information requirements, appropriateness assessment and fee transparency.
Under the new Article 411-53:
- asset management companies marketing their own collective investment schemes are subject to the same conduct of business rules as those applicable to the service of executing orders for third parties;
- asset management companies marketing schemes managed by other entities are subject to the same conduct of business rules as those applicable to the service of receiving and transmitting orders for third parties.
These provisions will be supplemented by an AMF instruction stipulating how certain conduct of business
Press release
Summary of the public consultation (French)
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