ManCo Risk We talk a lot in the financial services industry about potential fines and/or enforcement action from non-compliance with regulation. What are the risks and what are the potential fines? From the point of view of a Management Company a key risk has to be a “blow-up” of a fund on the platform that can lead […] December 7, 2017, by administrator
Form PF The FORM PF is a regulatory reporting requirement whereby hedge fund managers (that are registered with the SEC) with at least $150 million under management must file a FORM PF periodically. Depending on the size of the managers (Assets Under Management) AuM they must file either quarterly or annually. AuM is defined in this instance […] September 18, 2017, by administrator
ESMA and Substance in the Funds Industry ESMA released some important opinions over the summer. A crucial and highly relevant paper[1] concerns the UK’s forthcoming withdrawal from the EU and “addresses cross-sectoral regulatory and supervisory arbitrage risks that arise as a result of increased requests from financial market participants seeking to relocate in the EU27 within a relatively short period of time”. […] September 11, 2017, by administrator
IMF warns Luxembourg Funds Industry In a newspaper article in Luxemburger Wort it was reported that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned Luxembourg regulators that they must increase their monitoring of risks in the investment fund industry. “The typical model adopted by Luxembourg fund managers involves significant delegation of activities, often including portfolio and risk management,” the IMF report […] September 1, 2017, by administrator
Record Retrieval using RiskSystem The final CP86 guidance (see here) references Regulation 123 of the UCITS Regulations 2011 which “provides the Central Bank with broad powers to request information from inter alia fund management companies. The Central Bank UCITS Regulations 2015 will provide that fund management companies are required to keep all of their records in a way that […] July 3, 2017, by administrator
Pre-Trade Functionality Using RiskSystem There is an increasing trend in regulation to require funds establish compliance with all relevant restrictions in the event of executing a new position. This is generally known as pre-trade monitoring. RiskSystem has developed a comprehensive pre-trade monitoring capability to allow fund managers to determine before executing a new position, if that position will cause […] June 30, 2017, by administrator
Share Class Hedging Using RiskSystem The existence of non-base currency share classes in funds mean that the holders of units of such share classes are exposed to the risk of the underlying assets and to the risk of the FX rate between the base currency and the currency of the share class. Regulations allow that this FX be hedged using […] June 20, 2017, by administrator
Softbank To Acquire Fortress Investment Group For $3.3B It was recently announced that Softbank would acquire Fortress – the large alternatives manager – for $3.3bn. The acquisition of the $70bn AUM behemoth is certainly interesting from a number of angles. Do the management of Softbank feel Fortress is simply an undervalued asset and with some patience it can extract a higher value, or […] February 20, 2017, by administrator
UK Dual Funds Regime A recent paper published by the New City Initiative (NCI) proposes that the UK government set up a dual funds regime to help asset managers deal with many of these worst case scenarios of Brexit. “A dual funds regime would allow UK managers with EU interests to continue to comply with EU laws and […] February 20, 2017, by administrator