Brazil: Investment Funds Industry
The Brazilian Investment Funds Industry
The investment funds industry in Brazil is regulated by Law No. 4728/65, which establishes the essential structure of requirements for listing, reimbursement of investors, tariffs and administrational practices. The responsibility for the supervision and discipline of all the funds originally fell to Brazilian Central Bank. But once the CVM was created the latter took over the duties of regulating the funds containing assets yielding variable returns, while the bank retained responsibility for the funds yielding fixed returns. The various categories of investment funds are currently regulated through the Resolutions of the National Monetary Council and disciplined through Circulars issued by the Central Bank and Directives from the CVM.