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The Financial Regulator has announced a change in its rules governing the charging of fees and expenses to capital in fixed income funds following a number of submissions from fund promoters.

On 16 November 2011, the European Securities and Markets Authority ("ESMA") issued its final technical advice on the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive ("AIFMD") implementing measures.

On 22 July 2011, the European Securities and Markets Authority ("ESMA") issued a discussion paper setting out policy orientations on guidelines for UCITS exchange-traded funds ("ETFs") and structured UCITS.

Earlier this year, revisions to the European Long-Term Investment Fund ("ELTIF") framework via Regulation 2023/606/EU (the "ELTIF Regulation")...

Having filed updated pre-contractual disclosures to comply with the Level 2 requirements under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation at the end of 2022, there was no time for fund managers to rest on their laurels.

The second Shareholders' Rights Directive ("SRD II") is due to be transposed into the national law of all EU member states by 10 June 2019.

On 18 July 2023, the Central Bank of Ireland (the "Central Bank") published its latest discussion paper entitled "An approach to macroprudential policy for investment funds" (the "Paper").

Certain provisions of the Central Bank Reform Act 2010, reforming the Irish financial services regulatory structure, came into effect on 1 October, 2010 following the signing of a commencement order on 28 September, 2010.

In January 2022 ESMA announced the launch of a common supervisory action (CSA) with national competent authorities (NCAs) that would focus on the valuation of less-liquid assets held by UCITS...

The European Commission ("EC") has issued its long-awaited responses to the further queries posed by the European Supervisory Authorities ("ESAs") in September 2022 on the interpretation...

The Central Bank has also voiced its concern about the governance and control framework in place in certain Man Co.

The commencement order giving effect to the provisions of the Irish Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 (the "Act") which provides for the efficient re-domiciling of offshore fund companies to Ireland has been signed.

In this article, Ian Conlon and Aaron Mulcahy highlight what makes the ICAV such an attractive legal structure for AIFs and how its introduction has seen the expansion of strategies being pursued.

The Irish investment limited partnership (the "ILP"), now re-shaped as a flexible fund investment vehicle following amendments made to the existing Investment Limited Partnership Act, 19

The European Securities and Markets Authority ("ESMA") issued its final report to the European Commission regarding the implementation of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive ("AIFMD") on 16 November 2011.

The Investment Limited Partnership ("ILP") has recently been modernised and offers a structuring solution for private equity, private credit, real asset and other private fund strategies.

In December 2009, the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) issued its technical advice to the EU Commission on level 2 measures relating to mergers of UCITS, master-feeder UCITS structures and cross-border notification of UCITS.