Pursuant to the Securities and Investment Business Act (2013 Revision) ("SIBA"), the Mutual Funds Regulations (2013 Revision) and the Private Investment Funds Regulations, 2019, all British Virgin Islands ("BVI") private.

The BVI's incubator and approved funds continue to be extremely popular and cost-effective for fund start-ups and emerging managers.

The British Virgin Islands ("BVI") is one of the leading offshore investment funds jurisdictions, attracting investment managers and investors worldwide.

As part of BVI's continued commitment to remain at the forefront of international legislation and EU compliance, the BVI enacted the Securities and Investment Business (Amendment) ...

The BVI Approved Fund Manager regime introduced in 2012, has become increasingly attractive for start-ups as well as small and medium-sized fund managers in recent years.

Discipline is one of the key traits of any successful fund manager – sticking to the core investment strategy and avoiding style drift.

The primary anti-money laundering legislation in BVI is the Proceeds of Criminal Conduct Act (the "PCCA"). Growing out of the "forty plus nine" recommendations formulated by the Financial Action Task Force ("FATF")...

This publication has been prepared for the assistance of those who are considering the law of the British Virgin Islands ("BVI") as it pertains to anti-money...

The introduction of the two new, lightly regulated fund products reflect the FSC's awareness of global funds market trends and are designed to meet the needs of the asset management industry.

The Mutual Funds Regulations, 2010 (the Mutual Funds Regulations) (the "Mutual Funds Regulations") and Securities and Investment Business (Incubator and Approved Funds)...

In June 2015, The BVI issued the Securities and Investment Business regulations that introduced the two new fund regimes, the BVI incubator and approved funds. Both funds mainly focus on two types of managers...

The British Virgin Islands ("BVI") International Tax Authority ("ITA") has issued a set of guidance notes (the "CRS Guidance Notes") to assist in the interpretation of the OECD's Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Information in Tax Matters ...

The BVI Securities and Investment Business Act contains a consolidated version of the British Virgin Islands Securities and Investment Business Act, 2010 as amended.

This coupled with its welcome 2020 "white-listing" on financial crime by the European Union bodes well for the continued business growth trajectory.

Funds classified as Exempt Funds under the Investment Funds Act 2006 of Bermuda have until 3 October 2016 to be reclassified as Class A Exempt Funds or Class B Exempt Funds (the New Classes).

All British Virgin Islands private, professional and public funds and all BVI investment business licence holders are required to audit their financial statements.

The ESA also amends the BVI's Beneficial Ownership Secure Search System Act, 2017 ("BOSS Act") to add to the existing requirements such that a legal entity and its Registered Agent

In this series of articles we consider two of the more common requests we see in terms of fund structuring options: Multi-Class Funds, and Hybrid Funds.

The British Virgin Islands government recently passed new legislation affecting the funds industry. In particular, the new BVI Securities and Investment Business (Amendment) Act, 2019 ...

The British Virgin Islands (the "BVI") is one of the leading offshore funds jurisdictions, attracting investment managers and investors worldwide.