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Leverage and AIFMD – Impact on private funds
As the date for transposition of the EU’s Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (the “Directive”) draws nearer, and more detail as to the regime emerges, fund managers, investors and service providers are now better able to examine some of its more detailed implications.
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Newsletter
Submitted: 13 May 2013
Issue 64 of this regular bulletin providing brief details of significant legal and regulatory developments of relevance to the fund management and investment banking communities.
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Article
Submitted: 08 May 2013
The First Tier Tribunal has held that an "investment bonus" received by an individual and resulting from arrangements to transfer the fund management business from his former employer to a new fund manager was an income payment subject to income tax and not a capital receipt.
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Article
Last Reviewed: 13 May 2013 / Submitted: 08 May 2013
Overview of draft guidance on “marketing” and details of the proposed UK private placement register under AIFMD, as contained in FSA’s second consultation on UK implemention of AIFMD and subsequent HM Treasury Q&As.
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Article
Submitted: 07 May 2013
Overview of recent developments regarding application of FATCA to private investment funds and steps to ensure compliance from 01 January 2014.
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Article
Submitted: 03 May 2013
HM Treasury has published a series of Q&As, clarifying a number of outstanding issues on the transposition of the Alternative Investment Managers Directive into UK law.
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Article
Submitted: 03 May 2013
Overview of CFTC and SEC rules coming into effect on 20 May 2013 requiring entities to develop and implement a written Identity Theft Prevention Program.
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Article
Last Reviewed: 02 May 2013 / Submitted: 02 May 2013
Hong Kong is tightening its grips on anti-money laundering with a ramped up AML supervision team and increased scrutiny of compliance by financial institutions.
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Article
Submitted: 26 April 2013
A review of the implications for funds and fund managers of revised HMRC guidance on the liability of sleeping partners and "inactive" limited partners to Class 2 and Class 4 national insurance contributions
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Newsletter
Last Reviewed: 26 April 2013 / Submitted: 26 April 2013
The SFC on 27 March 2013 issued its Consultation Conclusions on proposals to enhance the regulatory regime for non-corporate listed entities, in which the SFC has decided to implement all the proposals set out in the Consultation Paper. This Oversight focuses specifically on the proposals which are most relevant to ETFs and REITs listed on SEHK.
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Conference Call
Submitted: 25 April 2013
Recording and slides from a conference call, held on 24 April 2013, discussing the implications and opportunities for asset managers.
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To help you prepare for implementation, we have created an AIFMD Toolkit, designed to provide practical guidance on a number of key topics including a decision tree helping you to work out whether or not you and your business are within scope.
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