Special Reports

 Ifina’s organisation in June of a networking evening at BVI House in London, featuring speakers representing the global hedge fund industry and the funds sectors in the British Virgin I »

 On May 17, 2010, the Securities and Investment Business Act, 2010 (SIBA) came into force in the British Virgin Islands. »

Market commentary and discussion on the merits and limitations of alternative Ucits funds continue to generate considerable interest for hedge fund managers and their investors. »

Today alternative Ucits III structures are very much in vogue, but the SEB Asset Selection Fund traces its origins back more than five years, to a train journey to northern Sweden in March 2005. »

Due to the combination of bruising market losses, high correlation among asset classes, unexpected illiquidity and epic scandals, the investment management industry faces a restless, empowered investor base. »

Nearly two years after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers brought home to the global financial industry the seriousness of the crisis that unfolded from the collapse of the US sub-prime mortgage market, the shape of the regulatory environment drawn up as a response to the past three years of turbulence is now taking shape, for better or worse. A major step came on July 21 with the signing into US law of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. »

 Ireland is seeing the establishment of an increasing number of ‘Newcits’ – Ucits funds that pursue alternative investment strategies. »

 PRO   * Tried and tested structure with strong global brand * Regulation, transparency and liquidity meet investor concerns »

 Hedge fund managers were never going to stay away from new distribution channels for long, especially ones with the promise of onshore distribution – historically the area they had been »

 There are questions about their suitability for retail investment, their ability to deliver long-term performance has yet to be proven, and Europe’s regulators could yet seek to rein in »