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ARTICLE · 19 APRIL 2024

A Guide To Jersey Expert Funds

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The Jersey Expert Fund is a longstanding and successful regime offering swift authorisation and a streamlined regulatory environment for funds making an unlimited number of offers...

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The Jersey Expert Fund is a longstanding and successful regime offering swift authorisation and a streamlined regulatory environment for funds making an unlimited number of offers to expert (ie professional, institutional and high net worth) investors. Expert Funds can be established within a matter of days on the basis of a self-certification approach, without the requirement for any formal regulatory review of the fund or its promoter.

Expert Funds have been at the core of Jersey's attractiveness as a jurisdiction for funds with a global, institutional investor base.

Who is an Expert Investor?

Underpinning the Expert Fund regime is the requirement that each investor should fall within one of the categories of Expert Investor set out in the Jersey Expert Fund Guide (the Guide) published by the Jersey Financial Services Commission (the JFSC). These include (among others):

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