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Disclosures to Investors

Regulation 48

Disclosures to Investors

IFSCA (Fund Management) Regulations, 2025Amended in 2026Chapter III · Schemes for Fund Management

Chapter III · Schemes for Fund Management

Regulation 48 – Disclosures to Investors
Amended 2026 Critical importance about 3 min

Retail schemes: Launch process, investor protection, concentration limits and disclosure for retail schemes.

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In plain English

Requires the ">Retail scheme to carry material disclosures; as amended, this now must also include NAV computation/disclosure methodology and conflicts of interest, plus revised NAV/ disclosure frequencies (daily/weekly NAV, quarterly portfolio).

In plain English
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The rule, in its own words

Read the exact text of Regulation 48
48. (1) The offer document for retail schemes shall clearly include all disclosures which are material for investors to make a decision regarding investing in such schemes. (2) The disclosures in the offer document shall inter-alia include disclosures regarding the investment objective, the targeted investors, proposed size, investment style or strategy, investment methodology, proposed tenure of the scheme 34[, methodology of computation and disclosure of NAV,] fees and expenses, 35[conflicts of interest,] risk management practices, KMPs of the FME and other relevant details of the FME and the scheme. (3) Any material deviation or alteration to the fund strategy should be made with the cons…
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48. (1) The offer document for retail schemes shall clearly include all disclosures which are material for investors to make a decision regarding investing in such schemes. (2) The disclosures in the offer document shall inter-alia include disclosures regarding the investment objective, the targeted investors, proposed size, investment style or strategy, investment methodology, proposed tenure of the scheme 34[, methodology of computation and disclosure of NAV,] fees and expenses, 35[conflicts of interest,] risk management practices, KMPs of the FME and other relevant details of the FME and the scheme. (3) Any material deviation or alteration to the fund strategy should be made with the consent of at least two-thirds (2/3rd) of investors by value. (4) 36[The FME shall ensure that the NAV is disclosed to the investors on a daily basis in case of an open-ended scheme and at least on weekly basis in case of a close-ended scheme, starting from the day or week, as the case may be, in which the scheme commences investment activities, excluding investments made in accordance with second proviso to sub-regulation (1) of regulation 46, in such manner as specified by the Authority. (5) The FME shall ensure that the portfolio under the scheme is disclosed to the investors at least on a quarterly basis, starting from the quarter in which the scheme commences investment activities, excluding investments made in accordance with second proviso to sub-regulation (1) of regulation 46, within one (1) month from the end of each quarter.] (6) Any other material disclosure as considered suitable by the FME or the fiduciaries shall be informed to the investors immediately. (7) The FME and the fiduciaries shall comply with the disclosure requirements as specified above or as may be specified by the Authority.
Statutory text — Principal Regulations, 2025, consolidated as amended up to 10 September 2026 (including the Second Amendment, 2026). The notified Gazette text prevails. Tap a highlighted word for how it functions.
Amendment history (3 notes)

Footnotes from the consolidated text. They record earlier wording and are not operative law.

  1. 34 Inserted by the International Financial Services Centres Authority (Fund Management) (Second Amendment) Regulations, 2026, w.e.f. September 10, 2026.
  2. 35 Inserted by the International Financial Services Centres Authority (Fund Management) (Second Amendment) Regulations, 2026, w.e.f. September 10, 2026.
  3. 36 Substituted by the International Financial Services Centres Authority (Fund Management) (Second Amendment) Regulations, 2026, w.e.f. September 10, 2026. Prior to the substitution, it read as- “(4) The FME shall ensure that the NAV is disclosed to the investors on a daily basis in case of an open-ended scheme and on weekly basis in case of a close-ended scheme; in such manner as specified by the Authority. (5) The FME shall ensure that the portfolio under the scheme is disclosed to the investors at least on a quarterly basis within one (1) month from the end of the quarter.”
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What this means in practice

Compliance actions
Applies to
Retail scheme
Frequency
Daily/weekly (NAV); quarterly (portfolio)
Trigger
Commencement of investment activities
Evidence
Updated offer document; NAV and portfolio disclosure communications
Common mistake
Reusing a generic offer document and omitting the newly-required NAV methodology and conflicts-of-interest disclosures.
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What changed in 2026

Offer document mandatory disclosures for Retail schemes now must also include the "methodology of computation and disclosure of NAV".

Practical effect
New mandatory offer-document disclosure item.
What to do
Update Retail scheme offer document templates to add an NAV computation/disclosure methodology section.

Offer document mandatory disclosures for Retail schemes now must also include "conflicts of interest" (inserted between fees/expenses and risk management practices).

Practical effect
New mandatory offer-document disclosure item.
What to do
Add a conflicts-of-interest disclosure section to Retail scheme offer document templates.

NAV disclosure for Retail schemes: daily (open-ended) or at least weekly (close-ended), from commencement of investment activities (excluding Reg 46(1) second-proviso investments), in the manner specified by the Authority. Portfolio disclosure: at least quarterly from the commencement quarter, within 1 month of quarter-end.

Practical effect
Applies the investment-activity-commencement trigger and Reg 46(1) carve-out to Retail scheme NAV/portfolio disclosure.
What to do
Recalibrate Retail scheme disclosure calendars to the commencement-of-investment-activities trigger.
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Where it connects

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Check yourself

The Second Amendment added which items to the required contents of a retail scheme offer document? (Select all that apply)
Select all that apply, then check.
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