Asset Management & Investment Funds Update – January 2025
January 2025 updates from ESMA include a consultation on open-ended loan originating AIFs, Q&A on fund names, and CBI updates featuring a new dedic...
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January 2025 updates from ESMA include a consultation on open-ended loan originating AIFs, Q&A on fund names, and CBI updates featuring a new dedic...
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December 2024 updates across outcomes from CBI ETF Review, CBI year-end deadlines, T+1 updates, CBI AIFM enforcement actions and sustainable finance.
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November 2024 updates across sustainable finance, UK distribution, ELTIFs regulatory technical standards, T+1 updates and industry communication on...
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Five key items ESMA wants to change in the sustainable finance framework as per its Opinion issued yesterday.
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Welcome to the May 2024 edition of our Asset Management & Investment Funds Update.
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ESMA published guidelines on funds’ names using ESG or sustainability-related terms.
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Welcome to our January 2024 edition of Legal News, where we continue to provide you with cross-sectoral legal developments in the last month. Our p...
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Commission clarifies key requirements for Taxonomy-aligned investments and SFDR sustainable investments.
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ESMA to assess compliance with SFDR, the Taxonomy and UCITS/AIFMD sustainability-related rules.
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As part of the transition to financing a more sustainable economy, the Central Bank of Ireland has advised of its role in tackling climate change. ...
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With the recent launch of the Euronext Green Bond initiative on 5 November 2019, Eoghan O’Tuama, David Maughan and Lyn Brennan take a look at some...
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Sustainable finance is continuing to dominate agendas in the financial services industry with an increasing focus on environmental, social and gove...
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In their Winter Briefing, our Pensions team provides an insight into some of the key legal developments we expect to see in the Irish pensions sect...
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EU Sustainable Finance Rules: A Compliance Action Plan for Fund Managers including Decision Tree and Compliance Checklists for Fund Managers and al...
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While most of the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation (2019/2088) (SFDR) came into effect on 10 March 2021, the delay in transposing IORP...
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(Re)insurers must prepare for key changes arising through European Union initiatives on sustainable finance, including climate change and Environme...
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See our analysis of the impact of the proposed SFDR-related amendments to the UCITS and AIFMD regimes.
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On 29 January 2020, the agreed text of the EU's framework for classifying which activities are 'green' or 'sustainable' (the Taxonomy) was publishe...
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The ESAs have launched a consultation on technical standards for complying with obligations under the Disclosures Regulation which include a mandat...
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On 9 December 2019, the first of the legislative measures in the EU's Sustainable Finance Action Plan were published.
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The EU Action Plan on Sustainable Finance: What UCITS ManCos, AIFMs and MiFID-authorised investment firms need to know.
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Each month our Asset Management & Investment Funds team write a 'Legal & Regulatory Update'. Welcome to the our May edition.