A Guide To Selling Regulated Investment Funds In Asia

1. INTRODUCTION

During the last thirty-five years Ireland has become a major hub for cross-border distribution and is one of the leading EU "exporting" jurisdictions for investment funds, for both UCITS and non-UCITS. More than 1,000 international fund promoters from over 55 countries use Ireland as their domicile of choice for fund products and seek to access not only the European marketplace but also markets outside the EU including the main Asia-Pacific markets.

Ireland is the number one hedge fund centre in the world and Irish UCITS funds are distributed in over 80 countries worldwide. Wherever your fund is domiciled, it can be serviced out of Ireland – 30 languages and 28 currencies are fully supported here. In particular, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Korea have become popular jurisdictions into which asset managers choose to market and sell their funds with particular acceptance of UCITS (the European "gold standard" product) in those markets.