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Commission guidance on ELTIFs: wider eligible assets, clarified intermediary structures and clearer liquidity rules
The responses provide welcome legal clarity on structuring via intermediary entities commonly used in private markets, the interaction of eligibility and liquidity rules, and the limits of national discretions, with immediate implications for managers of open‑ended and evergreen European Long-Term Investment Funds (ELTIFs).
SFDR 2.0 Overhaul: Impact Of The New Categories and Disclosures on Funds and asset Managers | JD Supra
On November 20, 2025, the European Commission (Commission) unveiled its long-awaited proposal to overhaul the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). This marks a decisive shift from a complex disclosure regime to a streamlined, more intelligible product categorization framework. Since its inception, SFDR has been a cornerstone of Europe’s sustainable finance agenda.
SFDR 2.0 overhaul: impact of the new categories and disclosures on funds and asset managers
On November 20, 2025, the European Commission (Commission) unveiled its long-awaited proposal to overhaul the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). This marks a decisive shift from a complex disclosure regime to a streamlined, more intelligible product categorization framework. Since its inception, SFDR has been a cornerstone of Europe’s sustainable finance agenda.
Great Fund Insights: Navigating NAV issues in open-ended real estate funds during economic challenges | JD Supra
This publication focuses on the key issue currently facing managers of open-ended real estate funds offered to institutional investors: the difficulty of striking reliable valuations of properties under the economically complex conditions of: generalized market volatility and damage to businesses, particularly in the retail, leisure and hospitality sectors; seizure—or severe slowdown—in property transactions independent valuers providing managers with fair value valuations subject to material...
Great Fund Insights: The European long-term investment fund (ELTIF) Review | JD Supra
This memorandum aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the current ELTIF regime (see section 2 below) as well as the most salient features of the new ELTIF regime (see section 3 below), including a table showing the changes to the investment restrictions (see section 3.3 below). Please see Publication below for more information. Download PDF
Great Fund Insights - The ELTIF review | JD Supra
The European long-term investment fund (ELTIF) is an EU fund regime that was introduced in 2015 by Regulation (EU) 2015/760 (the ELTIF Regulation) to boost long-term investments through EU alternative investment funds (AIFs) in the European real economy, such as transport and social infrastructure projects, properties and capital or private debt of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Please see Publication below for more information. Download PDF
Great Fund Insights: AIFMD Review Proposal Published: What are the key takeaways for asset managers? | JD Supra
On 25 November, the European Commission published its long awaited AIFMD Review package including a proposal amending the AIFMD and the UCITS Directive on delegation, liquidity risk management, provision of depositary and custody services and loan origination. Please see full Publication below for more information.
Covid-19 coronavirus: NAV issues in open-ended real estate funds | JD Supra
The Covid-19 pandemic and resulting government lockdowns have brought intense volatility both to financial markets and the real economy, and a sharp return of challenges that confronted asset managers in the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-10.
Acquiring the Taste of Sri Lankan Bourbon
It was my last day in Luang Prabang and I was wallowing. I had been in town for six days, I had gazed at temples and gawked at monks and stared holes into the heads of overaggressive and underdressed tourists, but I had yet to find who I had come to Laos to see: Mr. Chang. The mission up the river and into the jungle left me feeling like a Marlow without a Kurtz, and my mood had curdled badly 24 hours earlier when my last effort to find Chang ended in another dead end.
Snake Liquor on the Mekong
It was my last day in Luang Prabang and I was wallowing. I had been in town for six days, I had gazed at temples and gawked at monks and stared holes into the heads of overaggressive and underdressed tourists, but I had yet to find who I had come to Laos to see: Mr. Chang. The mission up the river and into the jungle left me feeling like a Marlow without a Kurtz, and my mood had curdled badly 24 hours earlier when my last effort to find Chang ended in another dead end.
Market Town, Tribal Bar, Country Liquor
Let me get this out of the way right now: I didn’t have to toast to Kim Jong-un. I didn’t have to toast to the downfall of American capitalist pigs, either. Or apologize for Team America: World Police, or the whole “axis of evil” thing. No one asked me if I knew Dennis Rodman. And, despite the ribbing that I still get to this day, I’m confident that my drink wasn’t spiked with a brainwashing drug that made me forget where they keep all the nukes.
Barn Burner - Roads & Kingdoms
Let me get this out of the way right now: I didn’t have to toast to Kim Jong-un. I didn’t have to toast to the downfall of American capitalist pigs, either. Or apologize for Team America: World Police, or the whole “axis of evil” thing. No one asked me if I knew Dennis Rodman. And, despite the ribbing that I still get to this day, I’m confident that my drink wasn’t spiked with a brainwashing drug that made me forget where they keep all the nukes.
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