The Thailand Securities and Exchange Commission has launched a consultation on draft regulations that would strengthen sustainability-related disclosures for Sustainable and Responsible Investing Funds and give asset management companies more flexibility to change their funds’ reference environmental, social and governance benchmarks. Thai ESG and Thai ESGX Funds investing in listed companies participating in the Listed Company Value Creation Support Program, known as JUMP+, would have to report those investments and the companies’ implementation progress in fund factsheets. The required disclosures would cover JUMP+ investments as a percentage of net asset value, portfolio companies categorized by their progress against JUMP+ plans, and the proportion of investee companies subject to asset manager engagement during the previous year. The draft would also remove the requirement to specify an SRI Fund’s reference ESG benchmark in the fund scheme, allowing changes without a scheme amendment. Any benchmark used would remain disclosed in the prospectus and factsheet, while existing requirements for investment policies, sustainability objectives, strategies, risks and procedures for misaligned investments would continue to apply. Comments are due by Sept. 6, 2026.

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