In March 2023, the European Union reached agreement on an enhanced regulatory framework for European Long Term Investment Funds ("ELTIFs"). This enhanced regime ("ELTIF 2.0") will apply...

Two students have won awards for their work during an innovative new funds law course taught at NUI Maynooth.

Recent industry statistics have confirmed that Ireland’s funds industry is at an all-time high and that it continues to outpace other jurisdictions as the fastest growing UCITS domicile in the world.

Matheson announced today that it has become a signatory to the Mindful Business Charter, a set of best-practice principles to support mental health and wellbeing in the workplace.

ESMA utilised natural language processing ("NLP") techniques to analyse the names of more than 36,000 funds with €16 trillion of assets combined with a dataset of over 100,000 fund documents.

On 12 May 2023, the Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions ("IOSCO") published Good Practices Relating to the Implementation of the IOSCO Principles for Exchange Traded Funds Final Report...

On 12 May 2023, the Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions ("IOSCO") published Good Practices Relating to the Implementation...

In this three-part video series, Brian Kelliher, Cillian Bredin and Derbhil O'Riordan provide an overview of some of the key features of the Irish ELTIF, including its liquidity profile.

This week, Joanne Whelan, a partner with Deloitte in Ireland, looks at conflict in family businesses.

Ireland was not immune to the headwinds buffeting the global economy in 2022. Rising interest rates, persistently high inflation, slower growth in Western markets, war in Ukraine and global...

In a move that will be welcomed by asset managers conducting exchange-traded fund (ETF) business in Ireland, or those who are hoping to move into the Irish ETF space, the Central Bank of Ireland (the Central Bank) has moved to allow for the establishment of semi-transparent ETFs by amending its requirements for portfolio transparency.

The UCITS ManCo will need to submit the following documents to the Central Bank for review as part of the application for authorisation...

The AIFM will need to submit the following documents to the Central Bank for review as part of the application for authorisation...

The Matheson Spring Horizon Tracker has just been distributed to our clients this week with an 'as of' date of 10 March 2024.

Under the updated rules, ETFs authorised by the Central Bank can now disclose their portfolio holdings on a daily, or less frequent periodic basis, subject to certain conditions outlined below...

As real estate values have fallen over the last few years and construction costs have increased, many sponsors and asset managers have been forced to look at creative ways to capitalise or recapitalise assets.

The European Commission has published its first Solvency II third-country equivalence decision on 5 June 2015.