SEBI has vide its circular dated 3rd June, 2021 enhanced the overseas investment limits for mutual funds as follows:
- they can make overseas investments subject to a maximum of US$1 billion per mutual fund subject to an industry limit of USD$7 billion;
- in overseas exchange traded fund, they can make investment of US$ 300 million per mutual fund subject to an industry limit of US$1 billion.
The earlier limits were US$600 million (per mutual fund) and US$200 million (for exchange traded fund) respectively. The overall industry limits are the same.
In respect of investment limits to be disclosed in the scheme documents at the time of NFO as specified in Para 2.2 of the aforesaid circular, and the investment limits on ongoing schemes as specified in Para 2.3 of the aforesaid circular, such limits would henceforth be soft limits for the purpose of reporting only by Mutual Funds on monthly basis in the format prescribed vide SEBI circular dated November 5, 2020.
The aforesaid circular referred to above is the Para 1 of SEBI Circular No. SEBI/HO/IMD/DF3/CIR/P/2020/225 dated
November 05, 2020 which is here i.e.