OFST160100 – Legal Form

Legal form of the fund, e.g. contractual fund, company with variable capital (SICAV), open-ended investment company (OEIC) or others. Please note, that these legal forms have different nomenclatures depending of their domicile. For that reason, please refer to field OFST160110 "National Nomenclature Of Legal Form".

It could be that new values are added to this field. for this reason, the receiving system should be able to accept data intended for an earlier version. The so called backward compatibility can be guaranteed to a relatively large extent by openfunds.

For more information please refer to the white paper regarding version management that can be found at https://www.openfunds.org/knowledge/whitepapers/versions/

Property Value
OF-ID OFST160100
Name Legal Form
Area Static data
Level Fund
Format Text
Tags Core
Introduced in openfunds 0.85

Allowed values

Contractual Fund, Company With Variable Capital (SICAV), Open-ended Investment Company (OEIC), Company With Fixed Capital (SICAF), Unit Trust / Unit Investment Trust (UIT), Limited Partnership (LP), Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Example

Contractual Fund

FundsXML 4 mapping

FundsXML 4.2.11 has no element for this field. The converter keeps the value as CustomAttributes/Attribute named OF_OFST160100 on the share class (or position), so FundsXML → openfunds restores it unchanged.

The field mapping table lists every field; openfunds to FundsXML explains the rules behind it.

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