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Version status: Amended | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 7 January 2020 - 23 December 2024
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Article 52

1.A UCITS shall invest no more than:

(a) 5 % of its assets in transferable securities or money market instruments issued by the same body; or

(b) 20 % of its assets in deposits made with the same body.

The risk exposure to a counterparty of the UCITS in an OTC derivative transaction shall not exceed either:

(a) 10 % of its assets when the counterparty is a credit institution referred to in Article 50(1)(f); or

(b) 5 % of its assets, in other cases.

2. Member States may raise the 5 % limit laid down in the first subparagraph of paragraph 1 to a maximum of 10 %. If they do so, however, the total value of the transferable securities and the money market instruments held by the UCITS in the issuing bodies in each of which it invests more than 5 % of its assets shall not exceed 40 % of the value of its assets. That limitation shall not apply to deposits or OTC derivative transactions made with financial institutions subject to prudential supervision.

Notwithstanding the individual limits laid down in paragraph 1, a UCITS shall not combine, where this would lead to investment of more than 20 % of its assets in a single body, any of the following: