Investment Documents & Fund Certificates
Beyond the portfolio system that tracks investment assets, Nama has a second investment world for the paper instruments a company buys and holds: bonds and fund certificates. These behave very differently from an equity stake, so they get their own documents. This page covers both — and they themselves split into two kinds, which is the first thing to get straight.
Required license
Investment documents are part of the accounting-investment-documents license — the same license that covers treasury bills. Screens are under Banks > Investment Documents (and Banks > Document Investments for funds).
Two kinds of instrument — and why both exist
The two answer different needs, so don't mix them up:
- Investment Document (سند استثمار) — a bond-like instrument. You lend money against a paper that has a nominal (name) value and pays a periodic coupon return (ROI). It can be a treasury bond or a company bond, and its principal repayment can be fixed (the whole nominal comes back at maturity) or decreasing (the nominal is paid down over the life of the bond). The return is a known coupon — you're a lender.
- Investment Document Fund (صندوق استثمار وثيقة) — a unit-based fund certificate. You buy a number of units at a unit price, and your holding is worth units × current price. There's no fixed coupon; your gain or loss is the movement in the unit price — you're a unit-holder.
In short: bonds for a fixed, coupon-style return; funds for a price-driven holding. Treasury bills (a third, short-term discount instrument) are covered on their own page.
Investment documents (bonds)
The Investment Document master (Banks > Investment Documents > Investment Document) describes the bond: its type (treasury / company bond), nominal value, coupon rate and ROI period, the fixed / decreasing installments type (with a decreasing start date and the remaining nominal of decreasing tracked), the issue discount / issue premium, the market price, and the investment company. Its status follows the familiar Initial → Ongoing → Closed path.
The bond is brought to life by a chain of documents:
Investment Doc Purchase Document (
Banks > Investment Documents > Investment Doc Purchase Document) — the purchase, and the document that posts. Its effect carries the nominal value debit/credit, plus the issue discount and issue premium (raise) sides — because a bond is rarely bought exactly at par.
ROI Proof (and Aggregated ROI Proof for several at once) — locking in the periodic coupon return.
Claiming — collecting the document's value at maturity.
Investment document funds (unit certificates)
The Investment Document Fund master (Banks > Investment Document > Investment Document Fund) tracks a unit-based holding, valued as units × unit price.
It has its own three documents: a Purchase (buying units), a Sale (selling units), and a Price Update (revaluing the holding as the unit price moves). Because a fund's worth tracks the market, the price-update document is what keeps its value current between buying and selling.
Profit distribution
When investments yield profit to be shared out among partners, the Profits Distribution Doc (Accounting > Documents > Profits Distribution Doc) records and distributes it. Its printed form is SYSF-ACC023.
For Support
- "Which one do I create — a document or a fund?" — a bond with a nominal value and coupon → Investment Document; a holding measured in units at a unit price → Investment Document Fund.
- "There's no screen to create the bond manually" — the bond master is set up, but its accounting starts with the Purchase Document; the return then comes via ROI Proof.
- "The fund's value is stale" — funds are revalued by a Price Update document; without one, the holding shows its last known price.
- "A decreasing bond's nominal isn't going down" — check the decreasing start date and installments type; the remaining nominal of decreasing tracks what's left.
- "Where do the nominal / discount / premium accounts come from?" — from the Investment Doc Purchase term; see Document terms.