Federal Act
on Collective Investment Schemes
(Collective Investment Schemes Act, CISA)

¹ The fol­low­ing are con­sidered for­eign open-ended col­lect­ive in­vest­ment schemes:

a.

as­sets that were ac­cu­mu­lated on the basis of a fund con­tract or an­oth­er agree­ment with sim­il­ar ef­fect for the pur­pose of col­lect­ive in­vest­ment and are man­aged by a fund man­age­ment com­pany with its re­gistered of­fice and main ad­min­is­trat­ive of­fice abroad;

b.

com­pan­ies and schemes with their re­gistered of­fice and main ad­min­is­trat­ive of­fice loc­ated abroad whose pur­pose is col­lect­ive cap­it­al in­vest­ment and whose in­vestors have a leg­al right with re­gard to the com­pany it­self, or with re­gard to a closely as­so­ci­ated com­pany, to the re­demp­tion of their units at the net as­set value.

² Closed-end col­lect­ive in­vest­ment schemes are deemed to be com­pan­ies and schemes with their re­gistered of­fice and main ad­min­is­trat­ive of­fice loc­ated abroad whose pur­pose is col­lect­ive cap­it­al in­vest­ment and whose in­vestors have no leg­al right with re­gard to the com­pany it­self, or with re­gard to a closely con­nec­ted com­pany, to the re­demp­tion of their units at the net as­set value.