Trends in Alternative Investment Regulation

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Swiss managers wishing to successfully navigate through an increasingly regulated and politicized market must now rely not only on their own strategic and operational positioning, but also on upcoming actions and decisions of Swiss regulator FINMA and EU regulators.

This white paper examines two core regulatory reforms which will carry significant repercussions for Swiss-based alternative investment managers over the coming years: the European Union’s Alternative Investment Fund Management Directive (AIFMD) and Undertakings for Collective Investments in Transferrable Securities (UCITS).

It highlights several features of the increasingly politicized European funds market, and their repercussions on different types of fund-management structures.