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Supervision of costs in UCITS and AIF. What US Fund Managers Need to Know.

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Supervision of costs in UCITS and AIF. What US Fund Managers Need to Know.  ESMA kicked off in 2020 another supervisory convergence exercise, this time having as object undue costs and fair treatment of unitholders of UCITS and AIFs. Part of the broader paradigm of investor and market protection, the supervision of costs in UCITS and AIFs is set to be one of the prevailing supervisory themes in Europe for the years to come.   Centred primarily on the…

SFDR for Non-EU AIFMs Marketing in EU

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SFDR for Non-EU AIFMs Marketing in EU. Whilst the dust settled on the first round of implementation, completed in March 2021, uncertainty lingered for a while around the applicability of SFDR for non-EU AIFMs. Notwithstanding a narrative on its extra-territorial effects, unfolded in the financial industry for a few months since introduction of the new…

Cross Border Distribution Directive and Facilities Agents

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Cross Border Distribution Directive and Facilities Agents One of the promises of the Cross Border Distribution Directive is to remove hurdles to the distribution of UCITS funds in Europe. For the cost of abiding to certain formalities imposed at local level being one of the main obstacles, it is clear how no single measure could…

ManCo Due Diligence. Quick Facts for US Fund Managers

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ManCo Due Diligence. Quick Facts for US Fund Managers ManCos, a term most commonly used in the investment management world to refer to both UCITS management companies as well as authorised alternative investment fund managers, have been recently – once again – under the spotlight of the Central Bank of Ireland. The results of a…

The New Regime for PRIIPs KIDs Notification in Italy

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The New Regime for PRIIPs KIDs Notification in Italy Italy is amongst the handful of European member states to have introduced the requirement for notification of KIDs for the PRIIPs marketed locally. This requirement has immediate implications for manufacturers of fund products classified as PRIIPs and marketed locally, due to the fact that PRIIPs KIDs…

European Fund Platforms. Quick Facts for US Fund Managers

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European Fund Platforms. Quick Facts for US Fund Managers Joining European fund platforms is at topic widely debated amongst US Fund Managers looking at fund distribution strategies for Europe. Whilst fund platforms do exist in the US, the European landscape for fund platforms is not entirely aligned in its practices and dynamics with the one…

Where the Rubber Meets the Road on AIFMD Pre Marketing

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Where the Rubber Meets the Road on AIFMD Pre Marketing By August 2021 most of Europe will implement the so-called Cross Border Distribution of Investment Funds Directive (the Directive). The reason why this is important is because of the introduction of the notion of AIFMD Pre Marketing as well as the related notification regime across…

Investment Funds Cross Border Distribution in 2021

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Investment Funds Cross Border Distribution in 2021 The European landscape for investment funds Cross Border Distribution is set for a small revolution in 2021. Following the adoption in mid-2019 of both a new directive and a regulation, part of a broader endeavour of the European Commission on the Capital Markets Union, the time has now…

Add Sub-funds in the UK Temporary Permission Regime

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Add Sub-funds in the UK Temporary Permission Regime So, you are most likely one of the wise fund managers or promoters to have had your UCITS authorised for marketing in the UK under the European passport regime, just on time before the end of the transition period. You also most likely were able to carry…

The Spirit of AIFMD Premarketing

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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…