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The Investment Funds Association aims to improve understanding of the growing significance of the sector, its role in the growth and success of businesses and approaches to regulation that ensure the sector has high standards of governance and can channel funds to corporates as effectively and efficiently as possible.
We provide governments and regulators with high quality analysis of their regulatory environment in comparison to other jurisdictions and with ideas for improvements or innovation. We also act as a network for in-house fund counsel to share best practice and to remain connected to the latest developments in the market.
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IFA News, Regulatory and Conference Highlights – June 2024
News Preqin is currently exploring the possibility a sale. Goldman Sachs has raised USD13.1bn for its senior direct lending fund, West Street Loan Partners V. Takeaways from the Milken Conference: there was renewed focus on Middle Eastern fund managers; there was continued discussion surrounding consolidation in the private capital market with David Solomon, CEO of […]
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Pass-Through Expenses
The previous decade of fund-raising has seen consistent downward pressure from investors leading to reduced management fees across the private capital industry. However, recent data from Preqin1; has suggested that we are potentially seeing a return to the time-honoured maxim of “2 and 20” applied to private funds, on the closed-ended side of the industry. […]
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A New Frontier for Fund Finance: Ratings for Subscription Line Facilities
A New Frontier for Fund Finance: Ratings for Subscription Line Facilities The subscription line facility market has increased substantially – estimates suggest that 90% of newly launched European closed ended funds plan to use subscription line financing and that the market has nearly doubled between 2017 and 20221. This rate of growth in the market […]
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