Tag: regulation

Before too much longer, asset managers will be able to market non- EU funds to qualified EU investors under AIFMD passport rules Like much of...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged a Minneapolis hedge fund manager, his investment advisory firm and an employee with multiple counts of...

The Hedge Fund Association is an international organization, which was founded in 1996 and is a nonprofit organization in nature. It is a lobby...

The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) was founded in 1990 and is a major player and a worldwide representative of the industry of hedge...

AIFMD: EU HEDGE FUND REGULATION The EU’s Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD), which became effective at the state level in July 2013, has had...

What are today’s investors demanding of their hedge funds? Aside from exceptional financial returns, there is an increasing tendency to hold fund management accountable...

There have been recent changes in the civil litigation environment, which have meant that the hedge funds trading industry has also been affected significantly....

The new budget for the year 2015 signals an increase in the tax on businesses. The most important proposal is for investment partnerships that...

One of the most significant features of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank) was the establishment of the Financial Stability Oversight...

Dodd-Frank Act One of the most recent and pertinent rules applying to this industry is the Dodd-Frank Act, which forbids banks from having an ownership...

The most significant aspect of setting up a hedge fund is raising capital for it. If the manager is unable to raise the capital...

Since recent four-year anniversary of the passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, pundits across the public-opinion spectrum have weighed in on the seminal...

The buying back of shares by a company is governed by both the laws of the state where the company is incorporated and by...

Among the regulations governing hedge funds are the restrictions found in Regulation D of the Securities Act of 1933. Those restrictions allow hedge fund...

In 2008 at the height of the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis, two prominent Federal housing finance agencies established as Government-Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) were placed...

Until now, we have seen how earlier versions of mutual funds came into being but we have barely even scratched the surface so far;...

What do American banks Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase have in common with their European counterparts Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays, and several...

    Financial promotions over social media platforms are a matter of much contemplation since the past few months. While more companies want to take advantage...

  The Directors Registration and Licensing Law, 2014 (“ The Law”) came into effect on June 4th 2014 and requires individual directors to register by...

The reputation of the UK financial services industry has taken something of a battering in the post-financial crisis years, with the LIBOR scandal, the...

Funds DNA - Interview with Peter Kristensen CEO of JP Fund Services and Co-Founder of JP Funds Group Part 1 Peter Kristensen is the CEO...

One of the big hedge fund stories over the past few years has been the evolution of the U.S. Government's FATCA regulations. These are,...