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AQUA II poses a challenge to wraps

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
... managers would like to see restrictions lifted on more complex managed funds - including Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS) - he said, "This is a big step forward from wet signature regulations." But how do the ...

Aurora targets retail investors with liquid hedge fund

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2013
... Aurora. Hedge funds are marketed on their ability to derive a stronger return from the market than other collective investment schemes. However, many derive their returns by exploiting price inefficiencies in illiquid assets, which means many are unsuitable ...

EDHEC-Risk reveals risk control plan

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
After a three-year study into the European collective investment scheme industry, the EDHEC-Risk Institute has recommended a system of 'shared responsibility' to limit the non-financial risks which emerged following the global financial crisis. The ...

Simple funds should avoid excessive regulation: Equity Trustees

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
... to Equity Trustees head of corporate and fiduciary services Harvey Kalman. Kalman warns that despite the collective investment collapses of the last five years, managed fund investors enter 2013 with little more regulatory protection than they had at ...

Act soon on Johnson Report: FSC

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
... centre. In 2010 The Johnson Report suggested the introduction of an investment manager regime, reform of collective investment vehicles, the removal of withholding tax, state taxes and levies on insurance and the development of an Asian region funds ...

Government should act fast on Johnson Report: FSC

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2012
... center for financial services. It suggested the introduction of an investment manager regime, reform of collective investment vehicles, the removal of withholding tax, state taxes and levies on insurance and the development of an Asian region funds passport. ...

IOSCO recommends reforms to the $4.7tr MMF sector

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
An IOSCO review into the $4.7 trillion global money market fund sector has recommended further reforms to prevent a recurrence of the contagion crisis that fuelled the GFC in 2008. "Although money market funds (MMF) did not cause the crisis, their performance ...

UK to ban exotic retail investment products

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
... paper follows research commissioned by the FSA that found only one in four advised sales of Unregulated Collective Investment Schemes (UCIS) to retail customers were suitable. If the proposal is adopted, it will mean that in the retail market promotions ...

Asian managers eye Fund Passport

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2012
... Investor Services. In its latest industry poll, RBC Investor Services also said that while undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities (UCITS) products remain popular, Asian investors are keen to explore a range of new opportunities ...

Industry questions RE concept after Trio collapse

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2012
An in-house responsible entity has been singled out as a common theme between Trio and other collective investment collapses since 2007, although industry insiders have labelled the comment a rehash of an old debate. "While the report shared around ...