Insights

On Demand: Private Equity Fundraising in 2021

The private equity fundraising market has experienced huge growth over the past decade. According to PitchBook, annual totals for capital raised increased from $60 billion in 2010 to more than $316 billion in 2019. Due to the pandemic, 2020 fundraising figures were slightly off target, will this still be the case in 2021?

Four Reasons to Outsource Your Private Equity Fund Services

This eBook presents how private equity firms can remain competitive while also reducing costs.

Throgmorton – 2021 – Budget Update

ESA’s final draft of Regulatory Technical Standards

The EU issued the final draft of the Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) in February 2021 and set out the objective of the disclosure based regime to:

Emerging Asset Management reaches $1bn AuM milestone

Emerging Asset Management Ltd. (“EAM”), the provider of turnkey solutions for fund launches, today announces that it has reached the milestone of $1bn of assets under management (“AuM”).

FundRock breaks through the €100 billion AUM ceiling

FundRock, a leading European third-party UCITS Management Company (“ManCo”), Alternative Investment Fund Manager (“AIFM”) and Authorised Corporate Director (“ACD”) today announces that it has surpassed the milestone of €100bn AUM, and now serves over 450 funds.

ESG - Niche to mainstream

The EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation is raising the bar for ESG investments. How are managers adopting SFDR and will it go mainstream globally?

Sustainability Regulations: Mitigating Climate Change Risk

As ESG continues its rise to the mainstream, regulators are responding with new rules, with both the EU and Monetary Authority Singapore recently issuing new rules and guidelines that should be adhered to.

ESMA publishes a consultative document on MiFID II

The European Securities and Markets Authority consults on Guidelines on certain aspects of MiFID II appropriateness and execution-only requirements

Central Bank of Ireland issues fast track process for SFDR compliance

SFDR requires financial market participants and financial advisers, including UCITs management companies and Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFMs) to make pre-contractual and ongoing disclosures to end investors with regard to the integration of sustainability risks, consideration of adverse sustainability impacts, the promotion of environmental or social characteristics, and sustainable investment.

Nine questions you need to answer in assessing the revised OFC regime in Hong Kong

What are the reforms that make the OFC a more attractive structure for open-ended funds?

FundRock appointed ManCo for newly launched Chimera UCITS ICAV

FundRock, a leading European third-party UCITS Management Company (“ManCo”), Alternative Investment Fund Manager (“AIFM”) and Authorised Corporate Director (“ACD”) today announces its appointment as the management company of the recently launched Chimera UCITS ICAV (“Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicle”) with Chimera Capital Limited as the appointed Investment Manager.