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One way to market hedge funds in the EU under the AIFMD radar

Thursday, October 01, 2015

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Andreas Wölfl
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva:

While the Cayman Islands, the US and Hong Kong await the pan-European marketing passport to be extended to alternative investment funds (AIFs) domiciled on their soil, their fund managers wanting to market in the EU are still scratching their head. Some might take the mutual fund route, some might go for the complicated national private placement regimes, while others might try to conform to the Alternative Investment Fund Management Directive (AIFMD), or simply sit tight. But then there is also the securitization option.

Andreas Wölfl, the former Head of Austrian Indices at the Vienna Stock Exchange, set up the Argentarius Group in 2004. The firm focuses on the securitisation of alternative investments. He explains during an interview with Matthias Knab on Opalesque TV, how non-EU managers can access Europe without being licensed under the AIFMD.

Securitisation is the process through which an issuer creates a financial instrument by combining other financial assets and then marketing different tiers of the repackaged instruments to investors.

"We issue securities whi......................

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