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,…
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…
ELTIF Regulation Review. Less European, more Sustainable The long-awaited European Commission proposal for the ELTIF Regulation review is now out. Taking stock of the hard facts and that the full potential of the ELTIF is still far from having been achieved, the proposal for the ELTIF regulation review is based on some laser focused measures…
ELTIFs can be marketed to both professional and retail investors across Europe. In addition to specific suitability tests to be carried out on retail investors, ELTIFs regulation also imposes to appoint a Facilities Agent for ELTIFs in all the EU domiciles where marketing will take place. The Facilities Agent for ELTIFs is not necessarily a…
EU Fund Distribution and PRIIPs KIDs notification are two interrelated subjects. Despite the fact that the European Parliament ordered at the end of 2018 a two-year delay for the application of PRIIPs rules for UCITS, these rules remain current for other funds, like retail AIFs and ELTIFs. In this post we will briefly touch on…
Introduced with a regulation in 2015, ELTIFs is another acronym in the European regulation on financial services and stands for European Long-term investment funds. One of the unique features of this type of funds is that it is open to retail investors. ELTIFs are set to become very important tools for alternative capital raising to…
The ELTIF marketing rules represent, in a very eloquent manner, one example of the hybrid nature of the recently introduced long-term European investment funds regulation. In fact, ELTIF are AIFs themselves managed by authorised EU AIFMs. The AIFM directive already recognises that it is permissible to market certain types of AIFs vis-a-vis retail investors. However,…