The Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) has further relaxed the operation of trust-type discretionary investment services by investment trust and consulting enterprises. Under the relaxed rules on the acquisition of shares by personnel handling discretionary investment services, the acquisition of shares via inheritance, surplus recapitalization, transfer of treasury stock, or the exercise of employee stock options will not be subject to conflict-of-interest restrictions.

To assure the avoidance of conflict of interest, the original rules prohibit the supervisors of specialist discretionary investment units, and investment managers, their spouses, their underage children, and third parties used to conduct the transactions, from engaging in the same kinds of transactions from the time of purchase to the time of sale, whenever the unit supervisors or investment managers are using entrusted assets to engage in the trading of stock or equity derivatives.