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Traditionally, Luxembourg’s fund industry has always been based on the products being regulated. Both UCITS funds, and Specialised Investment Funds (SIFs) under AIFMD, work on this premise. However, the Grand Duchy was quick to realise that given AIFMD is manager regulation, it created a double layer of regulation for alternative investment fund managers (AIFMs) wishing to run alternative investment fund (AIF) products.
As Kavitha Ramachandran (pictured), Senior Manager Business Development & Client Management at Maitland, explains, this was a potential problem where time to market was essential.
“This is what led to the creation of the Reserved Alternative Investment Fund
What does the future hold for the raising of funds in Europe? Wayne Atkinson (pictured) of Collas Crill, on behalf of the Guernsey Investment Fund Association, takes a closer look…
With the arrival of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD), many were quick to bemoan what they saw as the inevitable loss of their favoured route to market; the use of national private placement regimes in the key European markets to raise capital for a Guernsey fund vehicle. With the passing of a few more years, a Brexit referendum and more than a little regulatory delay, it is becoming increasingly
By James Williams – 1. Choosing the Fund’s European Domicile: One of the hardest decisions for any start-up or established manager wishing to launch a European Alternative Investment Fund is picking the most suitable jurisdiction. Europe has multiple fund centres, including Luxembourg, Ireland, Malta and The Netherlands, each of which offers something slightly different. Due care and consideration of all the options is therefore vital before the manager engages with legal counsel to commence the fund set-up phase.
Europe’s largest onshore funds domicile is Luxembourg, home to approximately 14,400 funds, including sub-funds, representing just short of EUR4 trillion in AUM,
Welcome to the 2017 edition of GFM’s Guide to setting up an Alternative Investment Fund in Europe. It is the first of a two-part series, the second part will focus on setting up an AIF in the USA, and will be published later this year.
This edition is published as the UK finally begins the all-important process of negotiating the precise trade terms under which it will conduct its Brexit from the EU, terms which will clarify how investment funds outside the UK are regulated and structured for marketing and distribution purposes within the UK, and how UK investment managers
Online alternative investment platform Crowdmatrix is now providing investors with access to high growth private technology companies through the Plaza Ventures Fund IV venture capital fund.
Traditionally, becoming an investor in a venture capital fund requires a six-figure minimum buy in; however, Crowdmatrix’s platform enables accredited investors to invest much smaller amounts to diversify their portfolios into private equity.
Plaza Ventures has a disciplined investment system focused on private technology companies requiring growth stage funding. Plaza Ventures was launched in 2009 by Plazacorp, one of Toronto’s largest and most respected condo developers. Plaza Ventures is currently raising its fourth
Sustainability solutions provider South Pole Group has sold its subsidiary Climate Neutral Investments (CNI) to Institutional Shareholder Services Inc (ISS), a provider of end-to-end corporate governance and responsible investment solutions to the financial community.
Back in 2010, South Pole Group was one of the frontrunners in calculating carbon emissions of investment portfolios through its subsidiary CNI. What started as a novelty for the financial industry soon caught the attention of large investors globally: CNI established the world’s largest database of corporate climate change data and pioneered the leading, standardised investment carbon emission screening tools, resulting in the successful screening of
ZEDRA has appointed Robert Lucas as the firm’s new Head of Funds, Jersey.
Lucas comes to ZEDRA with over 16 years’ experience, having worked across a wide range of Trust, Fund Administrators, Corporate Funds and Private Equity firms, affording him a wealth of industry knowledge and understanding needed to build success and maintain company growth.
ZEDRA has experienced rapid expansion in current months, its recent senior hires over the past few months has not only strengthened the firm as a whole, but also elevated the level of product and service solutions it provides.
In his previous experience before
Pamplona Capital Management is to acquire Perexel International Corporation for USD88.10 per share in cash in a transaction valued at approximately USD5.0 billion, including Parexel’s net debt.
The purchase price represents a 27.9 per cent premium to Parexel’s unaffected closing stock price on 5 May, 2017, the last trading day prior to published market speculation regarding a potential transaction involving the Company; a 38.5 per cent premium to the unaffected 30-day volume weighted average closing share price of Parexel’s common stock ended 5 May, 2017; and a 23.3 per cent premium to the Company’s undisturbed 52-week high.
“Today’s announcement
LLR Partners has acquired 3SI Security Systems, a specialist in asset protection systems and GPS tracking technologies.
LLR will support the company’s continued growth through expanded sales and marketing, further technology infrastructure development and strategic acquisitions.
Protecting more than 250,000 client locations worldwide, 3SI’s solutions combat crime through GPS tracking, dye and ink staining and gas neutralisation technology specialising in the Financial, Retail, Cash in Transit and Law Enforcement markets. 3SI maintains an advanced GPS Tracking Support Center in Malvern, PA, and has trained more than 6,800 municipal and regional law enforcement agencies to use its tracking platform to
Global investment firm KKR has appointed Go Yamashita as Head of KKR Capital Markets (KCM) Japan.
In his role, Yamashita oversees a team of professionals who support KKR, the Firm’s portfolio companies and other clients by providing tailored capital markets advice and manage relationships and business development with institutional investors in Japan.
Worldwide, the KCM team develops and implements traditional and nontraditional capital solutions for investments and companies seeking financing. In Japan, KCM arranged financing for key transactions including KKR’s acquisitions of Panasonic Healthcare, Pioneer DJ, Calsonic Kansei and Hitachi Koki, as well as Panasonic Healthcare’s acquisition of Ascensia
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