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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 ...

ETP growth attracts IOSCO concerns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
... wide variety of different investment products such as Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) that are organised as collective investment schemes, exchange-traded commodities (ETC), exchange-traded notes (ETN), exchange-traded instruments (ETI), and exchange-traded ...

Asia Pacific $23.5bn local investment

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2011
... such figures, according to the FSC, and further supports the need for an Investment Manager Regime and a Collective Investment Vehicle Regime. FSC chief executive, John Brogden, said the findings further supported the recommendations outlined by the ...

Equity Trustees calls for more from teeth behind RE reforms

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
Financial services firm Equity Trustees has welcomed the regulator's call for tighter rules around RE licensing and said any reforms must match the increasing complexities of fund products now available to investors. Harvey Kalman, head of funds management ...

World-class Aussie funds reach Europe through UCITS

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2010
... endure in the past. The new set of EU directives fall under UCITS IV, which stands for the 'Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities'. These laws allow collective investment schemes to operate in the region based on the single ...

IOSCO warns against structured products

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
... Task Force on the Subprime Crisis that was published in May 2008. The central focus of the review was how collective investment schemes representing retail investors became involved with structured investments that it turned they did not understand ...

EC's reforms could be fatal to hedgies

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
... VaR" or relative value at risk measure with a maximum ratio of two. This means UCITS - Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities - funds will be able to have twice the risk of for example, a technology index. The firm warns that ...

Age of the virtual super regulator

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
... of these are the mutual recognition arrangements signed between Australia and Hong Kong in July regarding collective investment schemes or the agreement between US and Australia in August on their respective stock exchanges regulation. Diplock said the ...