Close to 50% of investment managers and consultants surveyed at Northern Trust’s annual Regulatory and Depositary conference cited client reporting as the greatest implementation challenge presented by MiFID II.
Bringing its final decision nearly down to the wire, Paris-based money manager Amundi has announced it will absorb the costs of sell-side and independent research once the EU’s MiFID II regulatory framework comes into effect in January 2018.
The much-maligned tax treatment of carried interest for investment fund managers, currently absent from the Senate’s current tax reform proposal, is likely to be addressed in any final plan, Pennsylvania Republican senator Pat Toomey said on Friday.
The U.S Securities and Exchange commission has granted a 30-month reprieve to U.S. financial firms from the new research payment requirements set to come into force in early January as part of the EU’s new MiFID II regulations.
Just a day after RAM Active Investments joined the growing roster of companies who will absorb the cost of external research once the EU’s MiFID II directive comes into effect in January, hedge fund manager Man Group has reversed its earlier decision to pass such costs onto clients.
Geneva-based alternative asset manager RAM Active Investments is has joined the larger group of buyside companies that have decided to absorb the costs of external research commissioned on behalf of investors once the EU’s MiFID II rules go into effect early next year.
Despite widespread criticism about the post-crisis regulatory environment on Wall Street and broad promises by the Trump administration to roll back onerous rules, a new survey by the New York Alternative Investment Roundtable finds that industry participants don’t foresee any lessening of regulations or oversight.
Global investment management giant Goldman Sachs Asset Management has joined the growing number of buyside firms that have decided to shoulder the costs of sell-side and independent research once the EU’s MiFID II rules go into effect in January 2018.
An administrative law judge for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has dismissed allegations of fraud against private equity maven Lynn Tilton and her company Patriarch Partners, ending a five-year investigation by the SEC and a case that raised questions about the constitutionality of the Commission's in-house judges.
As the dust settles from Anthony Scaramucci’s record-setting tenure as White House Communications Director, the sale of his alternative asset manager Skybridge Capital appears to still be on track.