Published: 01.01.2013 Updated: 18.07.2023

All collective investment enterprises, except money market funds, which invest in financial and/or non-financial assets, to the extent that the objective is investing capital raised from the public. Their business is to issue investment fund shares or units which are not close substitutes for deposits, and, on their own account, to make investments primarily in financial assets other than short-term financial assets and in non-financial assets (usually real estate).
The definition of the concept is consistent with Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on the European system of national and regional accounts in the European Union.