Monday, August 3, 2009 by
Olivier Sciales
As part of a legislative package to tackle the financial crisis, the European Commission submitted on 29 April 2009 a Directive on Alternative Investment Fund Managers (“AIFM”) to the European Parliament and to the Council. This proposal emerged rather swiftly following a general consensus across European leaders that AIFM, which managed around EUR 2 trillion in assets at the end of 2008, should be subject to closer regulatory scrutiny.
This proposed Directive marks the...
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