Consolidating a number of recent tax proposals in this year’s Budget would boost the attractiveness of UK funds versus their offshore competitors, according to Rachel Hanger, investment
‘Ring out the old, ring in the new’ is a new year catchphrase that may well be apposite for most financial sector players in 2009, but hedge fund managers may well find themselves facing m
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has announced that Jörg Heierle, of Miami Beach, Florida, and INH-Interholding of Switzerland and Miami Beach, have been found jointly a
Jersey’s funds industry is set to benefit from the introduction of new legislation this year which will offer more choice for fund promoters in how they structure their investment vehic
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), the British Bankers Association (BBA), the Investment Management Association (IMA) and Markit have launched the EMIR Counterparty Classification Tool on ISDA Amend. ISDA Amend is the online service from ISDA and Markit that
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has published and invited comment on a choice of five alternative proposals that it is considering in an effort to restrict what is perceived as a
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has entered into enforceable undertakings (EUs) with the remaining two former directors of Trio Capital Limited (Trio), Keith Finkelde and David O’Bryen. Finkelde, who was a non-executive director from April 2007 and was
By Fiona Le Poidevin – The implementation of AIFMD provides increased reasons to (re)domicile or co-domicile funds in the third country of Guernsey, says Fiona Le Poidevin, Chief Executive of Guernsey Finance. In October, the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), together
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has revoked the registrations of Chicago Trading Managers (CT Managers). CT Managers had been registered with the CFTC as a commodity pool operator and commodity trading advisor. On 27 December 2013, CFTC
A fortnight ago, two private-sector committees set up under the auspices of the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets released sets of best practice in the US for the hedge fund i
