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Ensuring the success of investment products such as warrants or managed funds isn’t always easy. Gaining sufficient distribution for a product in a crowded marketplace can be difficult, and administering those products can also be a challenge.

Issuing products on ASX helps solve those problems. By issuing on ASX, you can access our extensive distribution network of customers, participants and vendors, and you can use ASX’s market-leading systems for administration, trading and settlement.

ASX’s issuing services enable fund managers and investment banks to quickly and effectively issue non-listed investment products to the wider market.

These products differ from those funds issued under the Listing Rules (listed investment companies and A-REITs). For more information about these structures, see listing on ASX.

We help product manufacturers issue three broad categories of products:

  • exchange-traded products (ETPs )
  • warrants
  • managed funds

These products are issued under different rule frameworks, depending on product type:

  • ETPs and products under the mFund Settlement Service are issued under the AQUA rules and are either admitted to Trading Status on ASX, quoted on the Quote Display Board or admitted for settlement through  the mFund Settlement Service.
  • Warrants are issued under the Warrant rules.

Key features

Reach more investors

Issuance on ASX gets your products in front of more people. You gain access to our network of registered brokers and financial planners, who can then distribute your product to their client base.

Also, issuance on ASX can allow institutional investors to access your products, even if they are limited by mandates, or regulatory or legal constraints.

Sponsor international products

The AQUA Rules enable fund managers and investment banks to sponsor international products, enabling local issuers to easily bring overseas products to the Australian market. A local party may become a sponsor or distributor in Australia, or ‘white label’ products for distribution in the Australian market, provided they comply with the AQUA Rules.

Access to ASX systems

Having your products on ASX means you can focus on your core activities, not administration. Our trading and settlement systems administer investor activity, reducing the time and cost of back-office functions.

Better services for investors

Using ASX systems benefits your investors too. ASX systems enable them to move into and out of investments easily, and to readily obtain information about prices and liquidity.

Product updates

Email alerts sent to product issuers to advise of market developments and to provide guidance on compliance, operational and general issues.

To be added to the mFund Updates subscription list, please email investmentproducts@asx.com.au