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

¹ The fol­low­ing doc­u­ments are re­quired for ob­tain­ing the ap­prov­al of FINMA:

a.

for in­vest­ment fund, the col­lect­ive in­vest­ment con­tract (Art. 25);

b.

for SICAVs, the art­icles of as­so­ci­ation and in­vest­ment reg­u­la­tions;

c.

for LP­CIs, the com­pany agree­ment;

d.

SI­CAFs, the art­icles of as­so­ci­ation and in­vest­ment reg­u­la­tions;

e.⁴⁹

the rel­ev­ant doc­u­ments of for­eign col­lect­ive in­vest­ment schemes which are offered to non-qual­i­fied in­vestors.

² If an in­vest­ment fund or SICAV is struc­tured as an open-ended col­lect­ive in­vest­ment scheme with sub­funds (Art. 92 et seq.), each sub­fund or cat­egory of shares re­quires in­di­vidu­al ap­prov­al.

³ The doc­u­ments of an L-QIF and their amend­ment re­quire neither an ap­prov­al pur­su­ant to para­graph 1 nor an ap­prov­al pur­su­ant to para­graph 2.⁵⁰