In the third issue of Global Asset Management Review, our cross-border team provide market updates followed by a closer look at some of the key issues impacting the asset management sector:

UK

  • Overview of funds market and fundraising environment
  • M&A in the asset management and fund sector: Key themes for 2025
  • UK LTAFs: Playing the long game
  • The UK’s proposals to streamline the rules for AIFMs
  • Private market valuations: What were the key findings from the FCA’s recent multi-firm review and what should firms be doing to be compliant?
  • How you can improve your firm’s governance and learn lessons from regulatory enforcement
  • Abolition of the “non-dom” regime
  • Introduction of a new “Reserved Investor Fund” or “RIF”

Global

  • Fractional shares: Update on the regulatory approach

EU

  • The first SFDR compliance related CSSF administrative sanction
  • German regulator threatens crack-down on “excessive influence” of special fund investors – Non-German asset managers cooperating with Master-KVGs directly affected

UAE

  • ESG in Abu Dhabi: How does it link itself to Luxembourg?
  • Fund manager migration: Understanding the push and pull towards ADGM and DIFC

Australia

  • ASIC releases regulatory roadmap for public and private capital markets

Hong Kong

  • Hong Kong update: Recent and future milestones

China

  • Three key developments to know about China’s asset management industry

United States

  • Expanding retail access to private markets: Regulatory developments and industry trends

Canada

  • Turning uncertainty into opportunity: Private equity in a shifting trade landscape

Read the third issue here.