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The famous rule which rules out [[PB]] style [[rehypothecation]] for [[UCITS V|UCITS 5]] funds.
The famous rule which rules out [[PB]] style [[rehypothecation]] for [[UCITS V|UCITS 5]] funds.
===But I can still [[rehypothecate]] up to 100% of a {{tag|UCITS}} fund’s [[indebtedness]], right? ''Right?''===
===But I can still [[rehypothecate]] up to 100% of a {{tag|UCITS}} fund’s [[indebtedness]], right? ''Right?''===
I mean, the fund ''owes'' me, man. It ''owes'' me.  
Wrong.
 
But, I mean, the fund ''owes'' me, man. It ''owes'' me.  


Expect optimistic [[prime brokerage]] [[sales]]folk to argue that the limited exception will cover PB rephypothecation as long as the PB limits itself to 100% of the fund’s [[indebtedness]]. Alas, this is wishful thinking. The permitted exception to the bar on reuse is designed to allow {{tag|UCITS}} funds to participate in fully collateralised [[Agent lender|agent lending]] programmes. In that case a custodian lends client assets into the market on the client’s behalf (and as its [[agent]]) to earn a positive additional return for the fund. This is a very different thing to allowing a prime broker to play with the fund’s assets to defray its own financing costs from its margin lending on those very assets. To wit:
Expect optimistic [[prime brokerage]] [[sales]]folk to argue that the limited exception will cover PB rephypothecation as long as the PB limits itself to 100% of the fund’s [[indebtedness]]. Alas, this is wishful thinking. The permitted exception to the bar on reuse is designed to allow {{tag|UCITS}} funds to participate in fully collateralised [[Agent lender|agent lending]] programmes. In that case a custodian lends client assets into the market on the client’s behalf (and as its [[agent]]) to earn a positive additional return for the fund. This is a very different thing to allowing a prime broker to play with the fund’s assets to defray its own financing costs from its margin lending on those very assets. To wit: