Does the European Commission agree with recommendations to facilitate cross-border distribution of hedge funds to a broad investor base?
The report makes a number of suggestions to facilitate the marketing/sale of hedge fund investments to a broad range of investors on a pan-European basis. This is perhaps the single biggest issue to emerge from this report. It will need very careful consideration. It can be noted that within the Group there were different strands of thoughts on this. They need to be assessed from perspective of investor protection. Some proposals also need to be examined to see whether they can be implemented in the envisaged way on the basis of existing EU securities law. 6. Do the recommendations relating to distribution of hedge funds mean that any product from an “exotic” jurisdiction should be marketable to everybody in Europe without regulatory monitoring? No. In order to avoid excessively liberal retail access to hedge fund investing, the group agreed that only investors wishing to invest a minimum of 50,000 should be considered. In addition, the safeguards in shape of the graduated conduct of b
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