Luxembourg Fund Distribution Post Brexit. All You Need to Know Now The CSSF recently issued a press release to reinstate and clarify the steps required for Luxembourg Fund Distribution post Brexit in light of the looming deadline of 31 December 2020 and the end of the transition period in the UK. The press release from…
The Spirit of AIFMD Premarketing After nearly ten years since its adoption, it is now common knowledge that the AIFMD irreversibly changed the European landscape for managing alternative investment funds. What is less known about the AIFMD though, is that it also contributed to define at European level the concept and dynamics of marketing investment…
ESG Disclosure in UCITS KIIDs The Disclosure Regulation is considered by many a strategic regulation with long lasting effects for the fund management industry. Since its introduction, a great deal of attention has been paid to the implications of ESG Disclosures on the operations of fund managers, including a recent lengthy debate on the lack…
Phasing Out the AIFMD National Private Placement Regime? Since its introduction in 2011, the AIFMD National Private Placement Regime has provided an avenue for European investors to access alternative investment strategies hosted and managed outside of Europe. Whilst this regime is mainly and essentially a local law affair – and has its limitations, both objective…
Good Governance. Keeping the Board Informed About UCITS Cross-Border EU Registrations In the EU domiciles with the most evolved fund governance standards, the board of directors of UCITS management companies plays a pivotal role with regards to UCITS Cross-border EU registrations. The board of directors, in fact, will have a say ex-ante on distribution, to…
Mind the Gap. UK Facilities Agent Services and TPR Notification The UK is today still fictitiously part of the EU during what is defined, in Brexit jargon, Transition Period. With no hopes for the Transition Period to be extended beyond the original 31st December 2020 deadline, fund managers have still the choice to use the…
First Steps to ESG Integration More than a decade from a very hard financial crisis, largely created as we know it by exclusive short-term focus on earnings and profits, we are now witnessing a radical paradigm shift in the world of investing. Starting with the asset owners at the top of the investment chain, there…
The challenges of the S in ESG investing ESG stands for Environmental, Social and Governance and is one of the hottest acronyms in the Sustainable Finance ecosystem. Not only in Europe, where it recently received official recognition in the newly established public policy framework on Sustainable Finance, but also on the other side of the…
A primer on developing an ESG Investment Policy Written in collaboration with the experts at InReg The inclusion of Environmental, Social and Governance themes within investment practices and product offering has witnessed significant momentum in the recent past. The coordinated effort to channel resources to sustainable endeavours through finance, both at global and European level,…
Digitalisation in EU Fund Distribution The recent coronavirus outbreak and the ensuing forced digitalisation in the provision of financial services has in our view accelerated a broader digitalisation process already in existence in the EU Fund Distribution ecosystem. A process which was very advanced already in certain parts of the northern hemisphere of Europe, thanking…