Article 10
Investments made by a trust enterprise in which trust assets are used for foreign investments or investments involving foreign exchange, for a trustor who is a professional investor, shall be limited to the following:
1. Foreign currency deposits in a domestic bank or a foreign bank ranked in the top 1,000 globally in bank capital or assets, or a domestic branch of such a bank, provided that the bank’s credit rating is at or above the specified rating from a credit rating agency listed in Appendix 1.
2. The objectivestraded on foreign securities exchanges designated by the competent authority in accordance with the Regulations Governing Securities Firms Accepting Orders to Trade Foreign Securities:
(1) Stocks, warrants, depository receipts, and real estate investment trusts(REITs).
(2) Exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
(3) Exchange traded note (ETN).
3. Securities investment trust funds or futures trust funds denominated in foreign currency and offered or privately placed in accordance with the Regulations Governing Securities Investment Trust Funds or the Regulations Governing Futures Trust Funds.
4. Privately placed offshore funds and offshore funds that, in accordance with the Regulations Governing Offshore Funds, are approved by or effectively registered with the competent authority and offered and sold domestically.
5. Foreign currency denominated short-term bills of an obligor (issuer, guarantor, or acceptor) whose short-term debt credit rating is at or above the specified rating from a credit rating agency listed in Appendix 2.
6. Foreign currency denominated bonds issued in accordance with the Regulations Governing the Offering and Issuance of Securities by Foreign Securities Issuers that are already traded on the secondary market.
7. Foreign bonds meeting the following credit rating criteria:
(1) Foreign central government bonds: Bonds of an issuing country whose sovereign credit rating is at or above the specified rating from a credit rating agency listed in Appendix 3.
(2) Foreign bonds other than those of the preceding item (including convertible corporate bonds and corporate bonds with warrants): Bonds for which the long-term debt credit rating of the issuer or guarantor, or the bond’s debt issue rating, is at or above the specified rating from a credit rating agency listed in Appendix 4.
8. Foreign securitized products with a debt issue rating at or above the specified rating from a credit rating agency listed in Appendix 4.
9. Repo-style transactions in the instruments of the preceding four subparagraphs: When the instrument of subparagraph 5 is the subject of the transaction, the short-term debt credit rating of the trading counterparty must be at or above the specified rating from a credit rating agency listed in Appendix 2; when an instrument under any of the preceding three subparagraphs is the subject of the transaction, the long-term debt credit rating of the trading counterparty must be at or above the specified rating from a credit rating agency listed in Appendix 4.
10. Offshore structured products in which investment of trust assets may be made domestically in accordance with the Regulations Governing Offshore Structured Products.
11. The derivative financial products transactions of Article 16.
12. Gold.
13. Other subjects of investment approved by the competent authority.
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Article 11
Investments made by a trust enterprise in which trust assets are used for foreign investments or investments involving foreign exchange, for a trustor who is a non-professional investor, shall be limited to the following:
1. Foreign currency deposits in a domestic bank or a foreign bank ranked in the top 500 globally in bank capital or assets, or a domestic branch of such a bank, provided that the bank’s credit rating is at or above the specified rating from a credit rating agency listed in Appendix 1.
2. The objectivestraded on foreign securities exchanges designated by the competent authority in accordance with the Regulations Governing Securities Firms Accepting Orders to Trade Foreign Securities:
(1) Stocks, warrants, depository receipts, and real estate investment trusts(REITs).
(2) Exchange-traded funds (ETFs)which are invested principally in stocks,bondsor commodity (gold only)and have neither a leveraging nor a shorting effect.
(3) Exchangetraded note(ETN) which are invested principally in stocks,bondsor commodity (gold only)and have neither a leveraging nor a shorting effect.
3. Securities investment trust funds or futures trust funds denominated in foreign currency and offered in accordance with the Regulations Governing Securities Investment Trust Funds or the Regulations Governing Futures Trust Funds.
4. Offshore funds that, in accordance with the Regulations Governing Offshore Funds, are approved by or effectively registered withthe competent authority and offered and sold domestically.
5. Foreign currency denominated short-term bills of an obligor (issuer, guarantor, or acceptor) whose short-term credit rating is at or above the specified rating from a credit rating agency listed in Appendix 5.
6. Foreign currency denominated bonds issued in accordance with the Regulations Governing the Offering and Issuance of Securities by Foreign Securities Issuers that are already traded in the secondary market.
7. Foreign bonds meeting the following credit rating criteria:
(1) Foreign central government bonds: Bonds of an issuing country whose sovereign credit rating is at or above the specified rating from a credit rating agency listed in Appendix 6.
(2) Foreign bonds other than those of thepreceding item (including convertible corporate bonds and corporate bonds with warrants): Bonds for which the long-term debt credit rating of the issuer or guarantor, and the bond’s debt issue rating, must be at or above the specified rating from a creditrating agency listed in Appendix 7.
8. Foreign securitized products, not including re-securitized or synthetic securitized products, with a debt issue rating at or above the specified rating from a credit rating agency listed in Appendix 7.
9. Repo-style transactions in the instruments of the preceding four subparagraphs: When the instrument of subparagraph 5 is the subject of the transaction, the short-term debt credit rating of the trading counterparty must be at or above the specified rating from a credit rating agency listed in Appendix 5; when an instrument under any of the preceding three subparagraphs is the subject of the transaction, the long-term debt credit rating of the trading counterparty must be at or above the specified rating from a credit rating agency listed in Appendix 7.
10. Offshore structured products that meet the requirements of the Regulations Governing Offshore Structured Products for investment by non-professional investors.
11. Gold.
12. Other subjects of investment approved by the competent authority.
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