Alternative funds are increasingly en vogue with institutional investors thanks to tighter regulation and greater oversight. Nicholas Pratt looks at how fund administrators are adjusting.
Alternative funds are increasingly en vogue with institutional investors thanks to tighter regulation and greater oversight. Nicholas Pratt looks at how fund administrators are adjusting.
Company executives answer questions as part of Funds Europe's fund administration survey.
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Our second South Africa panel discusses pension scheme investment, and the challenge for asset servicing firms of building a pan-African business. Chaired by Alan Chalmers.
The panel discusses at the impact of Ucits V on the asset servicing industry and the implications of blockchain for fund firms and their providers.
A New York-based private equity firm has launched an ‘Icav’ – an Irish fund structure that rivals Ireland’s public company, or plc.
The Luxembourg funds industry association, Alfi, holds its spring conference on March 8-9. Funds Europe puts questions to some of those appearing, plus others who work in the local industry.
Outsourcing providers are ramping up their offerings but take-up among large managers is still rare. Nicholas Pratt asks if all the competition will be in vain.
The ‘look through’ structure generally recognises tax at investor level, rather than the fund level, enabling investors to access the appropriate tax rate on their investment income. However, the model’s transparency advantages transcend tax outcomes to encompass a suite of fund rationalisation, regulatory and reporting, and distribution benefits.
Fullgoal Asset Management has appointed Deutsche Bank as custodian and service provider for one of the first Ucits fixed income funds to have a renminbi quota.
