What are collective investment schemes (mutual funds) in Ethiopia?
Pooled vehicles — such as mutual funds — that let many investors combine money into a single professionally managed portfolio, spreading risk and lowering the entry barrier for small savers.
A collective investment scheme (CIS) — such as a mutual fund — pools money from many investors into a single professionally managed portfolio, spreading risk and lowering the entry barrier for small savers.
Ethiopia's framework provides for this. The Proclamation (Article 2) defines a CIS broadly as any arrangement that lets people participate in, or receive profits from, the acquisition, holding, management or disposal of securities or other property, and ECMA's CMSP Directive (No. 980/2024) creates a licensed “Collective Investment Scheme Operator” role with its own eligibility and conduct rules.
As with several parts of the new market, the legal building blocks exist; the products themselves are expected to develop as the market matures.
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