Bangkok, 26 March 2020 – The SEC has confidence in the measures issued to boost the liquidity of fixed income funds that concentrate at least 70 percent of their investment on high-quality domestic bonds, namely government bonds and corporate bonds with a credit rating of A- or higher.
The measures include the Bank of Thailand
(BOT)’s permission for financial institutions that have purchased investment
units of daily fixed income funds to place such investment units as collateral
for liquidity support while financial institutions giving assistance to such
mutual funds are allowed to use high-quality domestic instruments as collateral
for the same purpose.
Concurrently, SEC has announced a measure for temporary liquidity management by
allowing asset management companies to borrow or enter into repurchase
agreements at the maximum rate of 30 percent, instead of the usual 10 percent,
of the net asset value (NAV).
SEC Secretary-General Ruenvadee Suwanmongkol said: “BOT and SEC have introduced
these additional measures to boost liquidity of daily fixed income funds. Already
the unit redemption is beginning to slow down, and so far no fixed income fund has
borrowed or entered into repurchase transactions at an amount exceeding 10
percent of NAV. In addition, BOT has announced that the overall Thai financial
market becomes more stabilized and the requests for liquidity support from BOT
are not often.”
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