Changelog openfunds Fields Version 0.92 (Beta)

General Notes

  • Omitted character “blank” within data-IDs.
  • Changed 6000XX-data-ID group name on page 2 of field list from “Registration and Distribution (XX=ISO Country code)” to “Multiple country field (XX=ISO country code).(
  • Extended openfunds by the possibility to add language tags to specified fields. For more information please refer to white paper “Language Tags”.
  • Added a note on first page of field list recommending to use decimal figures instead of percentage formatting within Excel.

 

New Fields

  • OFST010205 Has Duration Hedge: New field.
  • OFST020262 Share Class NAV Hedge: New field. Replaces “OFST020260 Has Share Class Currency Hedging” (boolean) with three values (“no”, “yes, 100% NAV hedge”, “yes, residual hedge”).
  • OFST401002 Pricing Methodology: New field. Together with “OFST401003 Single Pricing Type” this field is replacing “OFST401000 Valuation Basis.
  • OFST401003 Single Pricing Type: New field. Together with “OFST401002 Pricing Methodology” this field is replacing “OFST401000 Valuation Basis.
  • OFST452015 All-in Fee Maximum: New field. Mentioned in the sales prospectus. Usually includes fees for portfolio management, sales, administration, custody and others.
  • OFST452017 All-in Fee Applied: New field. Usually includes fees for portfolio management, sales, administration, custody and others.
  • OFST452019 All-in Fee Includes Transaction Costs: New field. For some funds transaction costs are included in the all-in fee. If that is true, please chose “yes”.
  • OFST6100XX Has Country Representative: New field.
  • OFST6102XX Country Representative Name: New field.
  • OFST6105XX Has Country Paying Agent: New field.
  • OFST6107XX Country Paying Agent Name: New field.
  • OFST802010 Has Daily Delivery Of Interim Profit To WM Daten: New field.

 

Changed Fields

Field changes are grouped into “Major Field Changes”, “Minor Field Changes” and “Informational Field Changes”. They are differentiated by the propability of action required:

Major Field Changes
Action required. Typically fields that are no longer supported.

  • OFST004100 Has Swiss Representative: No longer supported. Please use “OFST6100CH Has Country Representative” instead.
  • OFST004110 Swiss Representative Name: No longer supported. Please use “OFST6102CH Country Representative Name” instead.
  • OFST004150 Has Swiss Paying Agent: No longer supported. Please use “OFST6105CH Has Country Paying Agent” instead.
  • OFST004160 Swiss Paying Agent Name: Changed Description because also Swiss domiciled funds have a Swiss paying agent. Values deleted because free text is expected. No longer supported. Please use “OFST6107CH Country Paying Agent Name” instead.
  • OFST010130 Fund Name In Chinese: No longer supported. Use “OFST010110 Fund Name” and add language tag to data-ID, e.g. OFST010110(zh-Hant).
  • OFST020150 Share Class Investor Type: No longer supported. Please use “OFST820500 Reduced Luxembourg Taxe d’Abonnement” instead. Typo in Description.
  • OFST020260 Has Share Class Currency Hedging: No longer supported. Please use “OFST020262 Share Class NAV Hedge” instead. Changed Description because of field name change (OFST010210).
  • OFST160150 Home Country Legal Type Of Fund: Omitted special character “§” from Values.
  • OFST401000 Valuation Basis: No longer supported. Please use “OFST401002 Pricing Methodology” and “OFST401003 Single Pricing Type” instead
  • OFST6050XX Country Specific Registration Type: Changed Value OFST6050CH “foreign fund for qualified investors” (old) to “foreign fund distributed to qualified investors only” (new).

Minor Field Changes
Action not necessarily required, i.e. whether an action is required depends on the implementation of openfunds. Typical examples are field name changes or enhancements implemented into the openfunds standard, i.e. the language tag functionality.

  • OFST001000 Fund Group Name: Changed Description because of changed name of “OFST001020 ManCo” (new). Added language tag functionality to Description.
  • OFST001020 ManCo: Changed Field Name from “Fund Provider” (old) to “ManCo” (new). Added language tag functionality and other enhancements to Description.
  • OFST001100 Fund Promotor Name: Added language tag functionality to Description.
  • OFST001300 Fund Administrator Name: Added language tag functionality to Description.
  • OFST001400 Custodian Bank Name: Added language tag functionality to Description.
  • OFST001450 Portfolio Managing Company Name: Changed Field Name from “Investment Management Company Name” (old) to “Portfolio Managing Company Name” (new). Added language tag functionality to Description.
  • OFST001500 Fund Advisor Name: Added language tag functionality to Description.
  • OFST001600 Auditor Name: Added language tag functionality to Description.
  • OFST001900 Collateral Manager Name: Removed “not disclosed” from Description. Added language tag functionality to Description.
  • OFST002000 Marketmaker Name: Added language tag functionality to Description.
  • OFST002700 Transfer Agent Name: Added language tag functionality to Description.
  • OFST002760 Dissemination Recipient: Values changed from free text to list maintained by openfunds
  • OFST005010 Umbrella: Enhanced Description. Added language tag functionality to Description
  • OFST010020 Legal Fund Name: Added language tag functionality to Description. Corrected typo in Description.
  • OFST010110 Fund Name: Added language tag functionality to Description.
  • OFST010210 Portfolio Currency Hedge: Changed Field Name from “Intrinsic Portfolio Currency Hedging” (old) to “Portfolio Curency Hedge” (new). Changed Description to clarify value “full portfiolio hedge”.
  • OFST010300 Investment Objective: Changed Field Name from “Investment Objective In English” (old) to “Investment Objective” (new) because of introduction of language tags. Added language tag functionality to Description.
  • OFST010410 Fund Currency: Changed Field Name from “Fund Base Currency” to “Fund Currency”. Enhanced Description.
  • OFST010580 Is ETF: Changed description as this field is on share class level.
  • OFST010670 Is Short: Changed Field Name from “Short” (old) to “Is Short” (new). Minor change in Description.
  • OFST010901 Replication Methodology Second Level: Chanced Value “optimized (equities) / sampled (bonds)” and omitted reference to Replication Methodology First Level so that it matches table in Description.
  • OFST011010 Securities Lending Counterparty Name: Changed Field Name from “Securities Lending Counterparties” (old) to “Securities Lending Counterparty Name” (new). Eliminated “non disclosed” and “none” from values as these values should be replaced by an empty field. Changed Description accordingly.
  • OFST011110 Swap Counterparty Name: Eliminated “non disclosed” and “none” from values as these values should be replaced by an empty field. Changed Description accordingly.
  • OFST020060 Share Class Name: Included Example. Added language tag functionality to Description.
  • OFST410952 Lock-up Comment: Changed Field Name and Description because of typo.

Informative Field Changes
No action required. Most likely changes in field descriptions in order to clarify the use or the meaning of an openfunds field.

  • OFST010030 LEI Of Fund: Changed example in Description from “SICAV” to “FCP” in order to avoid mix up between umbrella or fund level.
  • OFST010011 Fund Domicile Alpha-3: Added recommendation to use alpha-2 instead of using this field to Description. Corrected typo in Values.
  • OFST010420 Open-ended Or Closed-ended Fund Structure: Changed Example. Added Values (were not mentioned before).
  • OFST010500 Funds Of Funds: Corrected typo in Description.
  • OFST010640 Has 103/30 Strategy: Minor changes in Description.
  • OFST010900 Replication Methodology First Level: Minor changes in Description.
  • OFST020015 WKN: Changed Example.
  • OFST020080 Share Class Consolidation Key: Changed Value explanation.
  • OFST020262 Share Class NAV Hedge: Changed Description because of field name change (OFST010210).
  • OFST020270 Share Class Currency Hedging: Changed Description because of field name change (OFST010210).
  • OFST020560 Share Class Launch Date: Changed Value explanation from “yyyy-mm-dd” to “YYYY-MM-DD” as suggested by ISO 8601 and W3C (https://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime). Reduced Description.
  • OFST023550 Distributions Declaration Frequency: Minor changes in Description.
  • OFST023551 Frequency Of Distributions Declaration: Minor changes in Description.
  • OFST023805 Index Currency: Enhanced Value explanation.
  • OFST023830 Reuters Code Of Underlying Index: Corrected typos in Description.
  • OFST023850 Denomination Base: Added calculation example to Description.
  • OFST024010 Record Date For SRRI: Changed Value explanation from “yyyy-mm-dd” to “YYYY-MM-DD” as suggested by ISO 8601 and W3C (https://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime).
  • OFST062000 Listing Date: Changed Value explanation from “yyyy-mm-dd” to “YYYY-MM-DD” as suggested by ISO 8601 and W3C (https://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime).
  • OFST062030 Market Identifier Code: Enhanced Description.
  • OFST160100 Legal Form: Shortened Description as “unknown”-statement has been moved to first page of report. Changed Value explanation.
  • OFST160110 National Nomenclature Of Legal Form: Minor changes in Description.
  • OFST350000 MIFID Securities Classification: Shortened Description as “unknown”-statement has been moved to first page of report. Changed Value explanation.
  • OFST405600 Pre-notice Cut-off For Subscripton: Added remark concerning time zone to Description.
  • OFST410100 Cut-off Time For Subscription: Enhanced Description.
  • OFST410650 Pre-pament Cut-off Time For Subscripton: Added remark concerning time zone to Description.
  • OFST420240 Currency Of Redemption: Enhanced Value explanation.
  • OFST425600 Pre-notice Cut-off For Subscripton: Added remark concerning time zone to Description.
  • OFST430100 Cut-off Time For Redemption: Added remark concerning time zone using TZ database to Description.
  • OFST451020 Performance Fee Applied: Shortened Description by deleting notice to use decimal figures instead of percentage formats within Excel. Added a similar note on the first page of the field list instead.
  • OFST451030 Performance Fee Maximum: Shortened Description by deleting notice to use decimal figures instead of percentage formats within Excel. Added a similar note on the first page of the field list instead.
  • OFST451160 High Water Mark: Shortened Description as “unknown”-statement has been moved to first page of report. Changed Value explanation.
  • OFST451310 Subscription Fee Minimum: Shortened Description by deleting notice to use decimal figures instead of percentage formats within Excel. Added a similar note on the first page of the field list instead.
  • OFST451340 Subscription Commission In Favour Of Fund: Shortened Description by deleting notice to use decimal figures instead of percentage formats within Excel. Added a similar note on the first page of the field list instead.
  • OFST451410 Redemption Fee Minimum: Shortened Description by deleting notice to use decimal figures instead of percentage formats within Excel. Added a similar note on the first page of the field list instead.
  • OFST451420 Redemption Fee Maximum: Shortened Description by deleting notice to use decimal figures instead of percentage formats within Excel. Added a similar note on the first page of the field list instead.
  • OFST451440 Redemption Fee In Favour Of Fund: Shortened Description by deleting notice to use decimal figures instead of percentage formats within Excel. Added a similar note on the first page of the field list instead.
  • OFST452100 TER Excluding Performance Fee: Enhanced Description.
  • OFST452110 TER Excluding Performance Fee Date: Changed Value explanation from “yyyy-mm-dd” to “YYYY-MM-DD” as suggested by ISO 8601 and W3C (https://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime).
  • OFST452130 TER Including Performance Fee Date: Changed Value explanation from “yyyy-mm-dd” to “YYYY-MM-DD” as suggested by ISO 8601 and W3C (https://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime).
  • OFST452220 Ongoing Charges Date: Changed Value explanation from “yyyy-mm-dd” to “YYYY-MM-DD” as suggested by ISO 8601 and W3C (https://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime).
  • OFST453151 Is Trailer Fee Clean: Changed Description.
  • OFST454160 Distribution Fee: Shortened Description by deleting notice to use decimal figures instead of percentage formats within Excel. Added a similar note on the first page of the field list instead.
  • OFST6010XX Country Registration Date: Changed Value explanation from “yyyy-mm-dd” to “YYYY-MM-DD” as suggested by ISO 8601 and W3C (https://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime).
  • OFST6011XX Country Deregistration Date: Changed Value explanation from “yyyy-mm-dd” to “YYYY-MM-DD” as suggested by ISO 8601 and W3C (https://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime).
  • OFST6020XX Country Deregistration Date: Changed Value explanation from “yyyy-mm-dd” to “YYYY-MM-DD” as suggested by ISO 8601 and W3C (https://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime).
  • OFST6021XX Country Distribution End Date: Changed Value explanation from “yyyy-mm-dd” to “YYYY-MM-DD” as suggested by ISO 8601 and W3C (https://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime).
  • OFST6031XX Country Marketing Distribution: Changed Description.
  • OFST800050 EU Savings Directive: Changed Description and Example.
  • OFST802000 German Tax Category: Shortened Value explanation as “unknown”-statement has been moved to first page of report.
  • OFST802500 Has Reduced Luxembourg Taxe d’Abonnement: Enhanced Description.
  • OFST809000 UK Reporting Status: Shortened Value explanation as “unknown”-statement has been moved to first page of report.
  • OFST809020 UK Reporting Status Valid From: Changed Value explanation from “yyyy-mm-dd” to “YYYY-MM-DD” as suggested by ISO 8601 and W3C (https://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime).

 
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