Talking heads: Ireland seeks premier league membership for private assets
Nicholas Pratt writes, 2021 promises to be a pivotal year.
Entering 2021, Ireland is grasping the national regulator’s recent review of fund management companies operating under the ‘CP86’ regime – that is, guidance introduced in 2016 designed to strengthen fund governance through measures such as board effectiveness, managerial functions and oversight of third-party service providers.
At the EU level, Ireland – along with other fund domiciles – faces a review of alternative investing rules.
But there is also optimism that Ireland will gain from the growth in private-capital investments now that amendments to the Irish Limited Partnership Act have been made.
Preparation for entry into force of the Taxonomy
Regulation
Preparation for entry into force of periodic reporting
obligations and Level 2 Measures under the SFDR
The Cross Border Distribution Regulation sets down specific
conditions that all marketing communications addressed to investors
must comply with. These include an obligation to ensure that all
information contained in marketing communications is fair, clear
and not misleading and does not contradict or diminish the
significance of information contained in the fund prospectus. They
must also provide investors with a hyperlink to a summary of
investor rights. Marketing communications
18 will
also need to comply with ESMA s finalised guidelines on