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. 

National private placement regimes (NPPR) continue to offer the flexibility and ease of access for marketing into Europe that appeal to fund managers, a London funds audience has heard. Speaking at a Guernsey funds masterclass at the British Museum, panellist Cathy Pitt (pictured), Corporate Partner of CMS Cameron McKenna LLP, said that fund managers appreciated the NPPR process, particularly when they only wished to target a select set of jurisdictions.   “I think people welcome the flexibility offered by the national private placement regimes. I’ve had a lot of experience of non-EU managers who are pleasantly surprised to find that