Announcing Our New U.S. Subsidiary: Bringing Fresh Perspectives and Localized Expertise to the U.S. We are thrilled to announce the opening of our new U.S. subsidiary, marking a major milestone in our journey to serve clients in the asset management, insurance, and finance industries. For years, our firm has specialized Read more…
Today ESMA published the translations of the Guidelines on funds’ names using ESG or sustainability-related terms. However, since the English-language guidelines were published in March, the publication of the translations does not mean anything new in terms of content. Funds that use sustainability-related terms in their name, must at least Read more…
On Tuesday, our colleague Alexander Ehmann, together with Ingeborg Schumacher (Responsible Impact Investing), Dr. iur. Heidi Erika Gysi (EY), Daniel Sailer (Metzler Asset Management) and Marc Zoll (terrAssisi), was on the panel of the Friends of Funds event “ESG Update: Regulation, metrics, categorizations, data quality”, which was moderated by Neda Read more…
Infrastructure investments have become an increasingly attractive asset class for insurance companies operating under the Solvency II regulation. Solvency II, implemented in 2016, aims to standardize and strengthen the regulation of insurance and reinsurance companies within the European Union (EU). It introduced a risk-based approach, emphasizing the need for insurers Read more…
We’re thrilled to announce the release of our latest ISAE 3000 Audit Report.
Solvency II is a comprehensive regulatory framework that governs insurance and reinsurance companies operating within the European Union (EU). After several years of discussions, it came finally into force in January 2016 with the aim of better protection of policyholders and beneficiaries. This was necessary because of the impacts of Read more…
Yesterday the Standard Board for Alternative Investments (SBai) published the latest amendments to reporting stress test results for the Open Protocol (OP) Risk Reporting Template. The reason for this change is the amended SEC Rule 206(4)-1, also called the “Marketing Rule”, which prohibits the presentation of gross performance in any Read more…
Last week ESMA published an update of the AIFMD Q&A which contains a new section called XVI “Exemptions”.