CMA Decision No. 80/CEO of 2023 · UAE Federal
Amending instrument recorded in the amendment notes of the Investment Funds Regulation (CMA Decision No. 1/Chairman of 2023). The CMA has consolidated its changes into that text and keeps this instrument in its archive of amending regulations.
Administrative Resolution No. 80/CEO of 2023 is listed in the CMA Rulebook as an amending instrument of the Investment Funds Regulation (Chairman's Resolution No. 01/Chairman of 2023), in force from 29 December 2023; the listing gives no issue date. The CMA does not publish its text; its changes appear only in the consolidated Investment Funds Regulation.
The notes in that consolidated text attribute a series of changes to this resolution, all in the appendices on fund types. In Appendix 2 (types of investment policies of a local fund) it amended provisions on debt instruments, exchange traded funds, precious metals funds and private equity funds, renamed the Capital Guarantee Fund the Capital Protection Fund, rewrote clauses 1 to 3 of that section and added a new clause 4. In Appendix 3 (other classifications of local fund) it amended the feeder fund and charitable or endowment fund provisions. Because the notes identify the clauses but not the earlier wording, the consolidated regulation is the only published statement of the rules as they now stand.
Local investment funds licensed by the CMA and their fund managers and self-managed fund boards, in particular debt, exchange traded, capital protection, precious metals, private equity, feeder and charitable or endowment funds.
We cite this resolution when tracing which version of the fund rules applied to a client's fund or investment at a given date, for example a capital protection product bought in 2023. Polaris is not licensed by the CMA and does not manage funds; we explain when a fund or its manager needs a CMA licence, form and administer the holding and management entities, coordinate with licensed fund managers and advisers, and keep corporate, UBO and AML records in order.
| Amends | CMA Decision No. 1/Chairman of 2023 |
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