The Unbearable Lightness of AIFMD Premarketing Rules Nearly one year since the introduction of the Crossborder Distribution Directive and the dust seems to have finally settled around the new rules on AIFMD Premarketing. Or that is what it seems at least for European managers. The situation is different on the other side of the Atlantic,…
ESMA Consultation on UCITS Crossborder Management Notifications There is more than meets the eye in the ESMA consultation on UCITS crossborder management and marketing notification. Far from being exclusively confined to matters related to AIFs and UCITS crossborder marketing in Europe, the scope of the recentESMA consultation encompasses also AIFMs and UCITS management companies’ cross-border…
ELTIF II Regulation and the Retailisation of Private Markets As the European Council adopts its position on the ELTIF II regulation, many are still asking why there have been so few ELTIF launches since its inception in 2015? We are inclined to believe that the market was not yet ready for the proposition underpinning the…
ESMA Consultation on UCITS Crossborder Marketing Notification ESMA just kicked off one more interesting summer project, with a very recent consultation – closing on September 9th – on the technical standards for AIF and UCITS crossborder marketing notification. Given that the introduction of the so-called Cross Border Distribution Directive took place over the summer of…
The New Process for UCITS and AIF De-registration Summer 2021 marked the entry into force in Europe of the Cross-Border Distribution Directive and, with it, also of a new – more streamlined – process for UCITS and AIF de-registration. So far governed exclusively by local national rules and practices, imposing expensive publication requirements in certain…
La Nuova Procedura di Deposito KID PRIIPs presso la Consob ***UPDATE: A seguito della pubblicazione di questo post, la Consob ha annunciato lo slittamento del termine previsto per l’entrata in vigore della nuova procedura di deposito KID PRIIPs, in uno ad altre novita’ relative ai fondi. L’Italia fa parte di quella sparuta minoranza di Stati…
European Distribution for US Managers. The Compound Effect. Travel bans are recently being lifted across the world. The news was welcomed by many as a clear – undeniable – sign that business is finally set to go back to the pre-pandemic ways and that includes hugs, handshakes and crowded industry events. And whilst we don’t…
Our Bespoke PRIIPs KID Solution This article has been written in cooperation with InReg The early September adoption by the European Commission signalled the beginning of the process to finalise and formalise the PRIIPs RTS. As part of this process, there will be the endorsement by the European Parliament and the Council and lastly the publication in…
EC Proposal on UCITS PRIIPs Quick Fix. Botched or Just about Right? *** Just a couple of weeks after I published this, the ECON Committee of the EU Parliament added some amendments to the draft of the UCITS PRIIPs Quick Fix tackling the issue of the disclosures for share classes for institutional investors. Big thanks to…
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…