International Funds: A Practical Guide

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Elsevier, 2004 M10 29 - 240 páginas
International Funds will provide readers with:*A greater understanding of the benefits and limitations of funds to both retail and institutional investors*An easy-to-read, yet technically comprehensive, insight into fund structures *An overview of the variety of legal structures, regulatory categories and investment profiles available*A detailed understanding of the practical aspects of fund valuation and administration, and the role of the various practitioners*A view of the future of the international funds industry in the light of changing markets, regulation and investor appetite
  • An easy-to-read, yet technically comprehensive, insight into fund structures
  • Provides an overview of the variety of legal structures, regulatory categories and investment profiles available
  • Presents a view of the future of the international funds industry in the light of changing markets, regulation and investor appetite'

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Practical Aspects of Fund Management
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Markets and Developments
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Página 10 - Trust is to give the investor of moderate means the same advantages as the large capitalist in diminishing the risk of investing in Foreign and Colonial Government stocks, by spreading the investment over a number of different stocks and reserving a portion of the extra interest as a sinking fund to pay off the original capital.
Página 5 - The arrangements must also have either or both of the following characteristics: (a) the contributions of the participants and the profits or income out of which payments are to be made to them are pooled...
Página 5 - Man ('FSA88') defines a collective investment scheme as: '...any arrangements with respect to property of any description, including money, the purpose or effect of which is to enable persons taking part in the arrangements (whether by becoming owners of the property or any part of it or otherwise) to participate in or receive profits or income arising from the acquisition, holding, management or disposal of the property or sums paid out of such profits or income.
Página 5 - FSA88 helps to clarify matters a little further: it states that to be a scheme, these arrangements: '...must be such that the persons who are to participate ... do not have day to day control over the management of the property in question, whether or not they have the right to be consulted or to give directions...
Página 88 - Although it is not statutory defined, the term [hedge fund] encompasses any pooled investment vehicle that is privately organized, administered by professional investment managers and not widely available to the public.
Página 100 - Directors owe fiduciary duties to the company, which means that they are required to act in good faith in the best interests of the company...
Página 190 - UCITS may invest no more than 1 0 % of its assets in debt instruments which, for purposes of this Directive, shall be treated, because of their characteristics, as equivalent to transferable securities and which are, inter alia, transferable, liquid and have a value which can be accurately determined at any time or at least with the frequency stipulated in Article 34; (c) an investment company may acquire movable and immovable property which is essential for the direct pursuit of its business; (d)...
Página 31 - We will look at this issue in more detail in later chapters; for now it is sufficient to note that...

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Catherine is Group Compliance Officer for Maitland (www.maitlandgroup.com) and alsoan Associate Lecturer in Financial Services at the Isle of Man College of Further Education.Prior to her current position she was Head of Legal, Compliance and Risk - Global Fund Services, Bank of Bermuda (Isle of Man) Ltd. She has been in the financial services industry for 20 years. She has also held positions as Manager, Marketing and Product Development for an international financial services provider, and was a Policy Adviser to the Isle of Man Government Financial Supervision Commission specialising in the development of the regulatory framework for collective investment schemes. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, a Member of the Securities Institute, a Member of the Society of Financial Advisers and an Associate of the Life Insurance Association by Diploma.She lectures internationally on subjects including fund management, regulation and compliance, insider dealing, investor protection regimes, and mortgage lending, and is Associate Lecturer, Financial Services at the Isle of Man College of Further Education. She has been engaged by the Africa Centre for Investment Analysis to deliver a 3-day course in November 2003 covering Insider Dealing Regimes, Investor Protection Regimes and International Funds.

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