There has been a flurry of activity over at ML Capital in the last few months. The company provides a range of UCITS and AIFMD fund solutions to fund managers and currently has over USD1.5 billion of assets under management across its Dublin-based MontLake UCITS Platform and MontLake QIAIF Platform. The MontLake UCITS Platform, in particular, has added a number of new funds including: Mygale Event Driven UCITS managed by Neil Tofts; OTS Asia Opportunity UCITS, managed by OTS Capital Management, and SPARX OneAsia Long Short UCITS, managed by SPARX Asia Investment Advisors.  According to ML Capital's CEO, Cyril Delamare,

Q&A with John Bohan (pictured), Managing Director Europe & Middle East, Apex Fund Services (Ireland). To what extent is Apex FS seeing interest in the QIAIF? And where is that interest largely coming from?    The non-UCITS QIF (Qualifying Investor Fund) has been one of the most successful fund structures in Ireland to date, its success reflecting the market appetite for a sophisticated regulated product facilitating hedge fund and other alternative investment strategies.    With the advent of AIFMD in 2013, there has been a growth in funds platforms with licensed investment management companies offering a fast track to market

According to Ken Somerville (pictured), head of business development at Quintillion Limited, Ireland's fund administrators are starting to see real interest among global fund managers, running both hedge funds and private equity funds, as Europe's credit markets continue to be restructured. This is leading to a wider, more complex range of credit strategies, with loan origination perhaps the most talked about example.  Quintillion Limited is a European-based affiliate of U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, a global alternative administrator with assets under administration of USD117 billion, with AuA in Europe totalling approximately USD26 billion.    "At Quintillion, we provide loan servicing through our corporate trust arm. This gives us a

Ireland remains Europe's leading onshore hedge fund jurisdiction by some margin, yet up until a couple of years ago it could not offer fund sponsors a corporate fund structure similar to the SICAV in Luxembourg. The Irish Government was fully aware of this need to improve Ireland's product competitiveness back in 2011, highlighting the fact in its Strategy for the International Financial Services Industry 2011-2016. The end result was the introduction of the Irish Collective Asset-Management Vehicle or ICAV, a new corporate vehicle that over the last 12 months has already proven to be more successful that was initially anticipated.