UCITS and NEWCITS and Hedge Funds, oh my…
| Jan 19th, 2010 | Filed under: Hedge Fund Regulation, Retail Investing, Today's Post | By: AAA Staff |
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The rush is on this year for alternative investment firms to set up and launch both offshore and onshore versions of Undertakings for Collective Investments in Transferable Securities, or UCITS- and NEWCITS-based funds.
According to a late-December report by London-based KdK Asset Management, some 80% of hedge funds, and in particular funds of funds surveyed by the firm expect to launch a UCITS-based this year (see graph by KdK below) as a way to ensure they are on a regulatory par with more traditional, and accessible, European vehicles. More…
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