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Amendment of Investment Fund Rules and Time Span to Submit Financial Statement
 

Today, on August 14th 2002, Bapepam amends 5 (five) prevailing rules. 4 (four) of those rules relates to Investment Funds. They are Rule No IV.A.3 concerning Management of a Corporate Investment Fund, Rule No. IV.A.4 concerning Management Contracts of a Corporate Investment Fund, Rule No. IV.B.1 concerning Guidelines concerning Management of Collective Investment Fund Contracts, and Rule No IV.B.2 concerning Guidelines concerning Investment Fund Collective Investment Contracts. And the other 1 (one) amended rule is about the requirement to submit periodic financial statement.  

Investment Fund Rules

Substantially, the amendment of 4 rules that are concerned with Investment Fund is intended for regulating same subject matter. These rules are improved in order to enhance flexibility in Investment Fund management by giving a wide variety of investment thereby it would be able to develop a strong industry of Investment Fund.  

Principal points of this amendment are as follows:

1.

Investment fund is allowed to purchase or sale: securities that are traded at overseas Exchange,  Asset Backed Securities, Obligations that are guaranteed by The Republic of Indonesia Government, securities that are issued by parties affiliate with Investment Manager or Unit holder only if it do not over limit certain percentage, and commercial papers whose maturity is less than 3 (three) years;

2.

A clause concerns with prohibition for purchasing securities that are issued by a corporation more than 10% of Net Asset Value of Investment Fund “at the time of a purchase” is revised to “at any times”;

3.

A number of prohibitions are also added for managing Investment Fund such as prohibition to purchase Asset Backed Securities whose Investment Manager is also an Investment Manager of the Investment Fund or its Investment Manager is affiliated with initial creditor of  Asset Backed Securities or a purchase of Asset Backed Securities that are not listed in an Exchange; and

4.

The revocation of a requirement for Investment Manager to submit its semi annual Financial Statement to Bapepam or to Unit holder;

Bapepam Rule No X.K.2 concerning Obligation to Submit Periodic Financial Statement.

The provision of a requirement to submit the financial statement is amended in order to provide faster financial information services for investors to take their investment decision and to correspond to recent development in international capital market. The principal points of the amendment are as follows:

1.

The clause concerning time span of submitting annual financial statement is amended from 120 days at the latest to at the end the third month after the date of annual financial statement.

2.

The clauses concerning time span of submitting semi annual financial statement are also amended as follows:

 

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If enclosed with an accountant report, the latest day to submit the report is amended from at day 60th to at the end of first month after the date of semi annual financial statement;

 

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If enclosed with an accountant report with regard to partial review, the latest day to submit the report is amended from at day 90th to at the end of second month after the date of semi annual financial statement; and

 

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If enclosed with an accountant report that provides an opinion on whole financial statement contents, the latest day to submit the report is amended from at day 120th to at the end of third month after the semi annual financial statement date.

 

Those new time span are to correspond to the prevailing international standards.

3.

For Issuers or Securities Companies that already have submitted their annual report before the time limit of annual financial statement, they are not required to submit annual financial statement separately. Issuer and Public Companies that have already submitted their annual report are considered to have already submitted their annual financial statement because annual report also contains annual financial statement.

4.

For the latest day to submit periodic financial statement is happened to be a holiday, then the latest day should be the day before the holiday.

 

 

 

 

 

Jakarta, 14 August 2002

 

CAPITAL MARKET SUPERVISORY AGENCY

On behalf of

Chairman

 

Director of Regulation and Legal Counsel Bureau

 

 

 

 

 

Robinson Simbolon

 

NIP. 060047831


 
   


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