The Edge Equity Income Fund is part of the Principal Global Investors Funds range of Dublin-based UCITS and is registered in most major European countries. The Fund aims to provide income, with long-term growth in both income and capital by investing primarily in common stocks of U.S. large-cap

Beginning this year, providers of index-tracking UCITS will be required by European regulation to disclose predictions of their funds' tracking error and tracking difference. Providers will also have to explain any divergence between their predictions and the funds' actual performance.

In this paper Geoff Bamber and Vernon West of Skyline Capital Management discuss 2012’s strong showing and ask themselves how they will continue to keep their portfolios’ fresh into 2013?

ML Capital Asset Management, the investment manager and promoter of the MontLake UCITS Platform, is delighted to present the 9th edition of the quarterly ML Capital Alternative UCITS Barometer (Barometer).

In this paper, Allen and Overy asked their market leading regulatory and finance lawyers to assess whether new regulation was having a positive, neutral or negative impact on the provision of credit.

The European Securities and Markets Authority ("ESMA") has now published its final guidelines on ETFs and other UCITS issues (the "Guidelines"). The Guidelines are aimed at investor protection, prescribing information that should be communicated to investors in Index-tracking UCITS and UCITS ETFs.

Applying for authorisation from the Financial Services Authority is a significant undertaking. This guide from Eversheds explains how the process works, what you as an applicant will have to, and which issues will need to be considered.

The September issue of Norton Rose’s asset management regulation updater examines developments including the joint FSA / HMT response to European Commission public consultation on a revision of the Market Abuse Directive, and FSA enforcement measures on Goldman Sachs International.

This newsletter discusses CESR’s final guidelines on risk measurement and the calculation of global exposure and counterparty risk for UCITS, and the public hearing on the review of MiFID

Recent decisions in England and Quebec in the Stanford International Bank matter cast doubt on international courts’ ability to develop a unified interpretation of Article 15 of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency. In this briefing, Conyers Dill & Pearman explore this issue further.