Standard & Poor’s has signed an index creation agreement with the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul), which authorises Standard & Poor’s to use Tadawul securities data to maintain c

Over the past 15 years, the competition to attract cross-border fund business within the European Union and, more recently, to provide a domicile and specialist services to alternative investments,

The globalised environment within which hedge funds operate has been characterised by a tumultuous stock market for the past 18 months.

Very few of us have not heard by now of the European Commission’s draft Directive on Alternative Investment Fund managers published on April 30, 2009.

The past two years have brought about a sea change in the financial services industry, and the effect on financial centres as we know them has been immense.

As part of its recent growth as a financial services centre, Malta has gained a strong reputation as an efficient fund domicile that provides competitive access to the European market and beyond.

While the Malta Financial Services Centre has been quite successful in attracting investment funds to Malta, particularly in the areas of domicile and fund administration, these funds have not real

At a time when the certainty of hedge fund managers’ fee income has been sharply called into question and managing costs has become a much more important priority even for the biggest groups, Malta

In recent years, the number of collective investment schemes licensed by the Malta Financial Services Authority has grown in a rapid and consistent manner.