Abstract:
Securities business in investment management and collective investment scheme is one of the significant elements supporting development of capital market as the business provides investors with an investment alternative through which a professional investment manager is appointed to invest and monitor portfolio on behalf of the investors. Owing to the fact that nature of this business relates to mobilization of fund from the public and managing others people money, the governmental authoritys role and participation in administering regulations governing the said business are in need to protect the interest of investing public. Study on supervision of securities business in investment management and collective investment scheme under the Securities and Exchange Act B.E. 2535 reveals certain problems on regulatory infrastructures including characterization of mutual fund and its management, check and balance among participants, and investment management licensing regime. These problems cause the supervisory framework inefficient and not conform to international features. In conducting this research, the author studies and analyses issues of the said problems under Thai law in comparison with Hong Kong, Australian, and U.S. laws. The author also proposes enactment of and amendment to legislation as follows - 1. characterizing mutual fund on the basis of its substance rather than its form to allow the regulatory regime to outreach all forms of mutual funds whereas interests in mutual funds eligible to be offered may be restricted only to the funds established in specified forms. No matter what forms of mutual fund, however, criteria on approval associated with issues with the same nature must be similar. 2. reforming criteria on check and balance among participants by amending provisions of laws on investment companys board of directors which is different from those of other corporations as well as introducing trust law to facilitate management of fund. 3. unifying licensing regimes of mutual fund and private fund managements to create a new regime of investment management under which detailed regulations accommodating unique characteristics of private and mutual funds can be put in place.