The regulation library
Plain-language practitioner summaries of the instruments that govern funds across the world's prominent fund jurisdictions — the EU directives, the national fund laws, and the offshore and Middle-East regimes underneath them. Each page maps one law: what it actually does, its key provisions with the practical point, its amendment history, and every claim linked to the primary text.
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Luxembourg EU
- Luxembourg AIFM Law 2013: summary for fund managers
Luxembourg AIFM Law of 12 July 2013: registered vs authorised managers at €100m/€500m, operating conditions, delegation, depositaries and the AIFMD II changes.
Last verified 2026-07-07 - Luxembourg RAIF Law 2016: summary for fund managers
The Luxembourg RAIF Law of 23 July 2016: who may invest, the no-CSSF-approval route through an authorised AIFM, risk spreading, the tax election and amendments.
Last verified 2026-07-07 - Luxembourg SIF Law 2007: summary for fund managers
The Luxembourg SIF Law of 13 February 2007: scope, the €100,000 well-informed investor test, risk spreading under CSSF 25/901 and the 0.01% subscription tax.
Last verified 2026-07-07 - The SICAR Law (Luxembourg, 15 June 2004)
What the SICAR Law does — a risk-capital-only mandate with no risk-spreading obligation, well-informed investors (€100,000 post-2023), and a favourable tax regime — every claim linked to the law.
Last verified 2026-07-07 - The UCI Law (Luxembourg, 17 December 2010)
What the 2010 UCI Law actually does — the Part I UCITS / Part II split, the 5/10/40 investment limits, the EUR 1.25m minimum, the FCP vs SICAV forms, the 0.05% / 0.01% subscription tax, and its amendment history — every claim linked to the law itself.
Last verified 2026-07-14
EU layer EU
- AIFMD
What AIFMD does — authorises the manager, sets operating conditions, leverage, delegation, reporting and the marketing passport — and what AIFMD II changed from 16 April 2026: harmonised liquidity tools and a loan-origination framework. Every claim linked to the directive.
Last verified 2026-07-07 - ESMA Guidelines on funds' names using ESG or sustainability terms
What the ESMA fund-names Guidelines actually require — the 80% investment threshold for any fund whose name uses ESG or sustainability terms, the PAB vs CTB exclusion split by term category, and who is in scope — every claim linked to the ESMA Guidelines.
Last verified 2026-07-26 - EU MMF Regulation 2017/1131
What the EU Money Market Funds Regulation requires: VNAV, public debt CNAV and LVNAV types, eligible assets, liquidity floors, stress tests and reporting.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - EU Taxonomy Regulation 2020/852
What the EU Taxonomy Regulation requires of funds: the Article 3 test, six objectives, DNSH, minimum safeguards and Article 5 to 7 disclosures on top of SFDR.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - EU cross-border fund distribution (CBDF)
What the 2019 cross-border distribution package sets: marketing material, pre-marketing, de-notification, local facilities, regulator fees and ESMA databases.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - SFDR and its RTS 2022/1288
What SFDR requires of fund managers: the Article 4 PAI statement, Article 6, 8 and 9 product disclosures, website and periodic annexes, linked to the law.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - SFTR, Regulation (EU) 2015/2365
What SFTR asks of UCITS and AIF managers: next-day reporting of repos and securities lending, fund report and prospectus disclosures, and collateral reuse.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - The ELTIF Regulation
What the ELTIF does — the EU's retail-passportable long-term-asset fund, how ELTIF 2.0 opened it to retail and to open-ended structures, and the RTS that set the liquidity terms — every claim linked to the regulation.
Last verified 2026-07-07 - The EU Benchmarks Regulation (BMR)
What the EU Benchmarks Regulation means for funds that use an index: registered administrators, fallback plans, prospectus wording and the 2026 scope change.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - The EuSEF Regulation (EU No 346/2013)
What the EuSEF Regulation actually does — the voluntary EU label and marketing passport for qualifying social entrepreneurship funds, the 70% social-undertaking test, the social-impact measurement duty, and the sub-€500m registration route — every claim linked to the consolidated regulation.
Last verified 2026-07-26 - The EuVECA Regulation (EU No 345/2013)
What the EuVECA Regulation actually does — the voluntary EU label and marketing passport for qualifying venture capital funds, the 70% qualifying-investment test, the sub-€500m registration route, and the 2017 opening to larger managers — every claim linked to the consolidated regulation.
Last verified 2026-07-26 - The PRIIPs Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 and RTS 2017/653: the practitioner's summary
What PRIIPs requires of retail funds. It covers the KID every retail UCITS and AIF must publish since 1 January 2023, its risk score, scenarios, cost tables and review duty, linked to the regulation.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - The UCITS Directive
What UCITS does — the EU retail fund regime, eligible assets, the 5/10/40 diversification rule, the single depositary, the retail passport, and the 2026 liquidity-tool changes — every claim linked to the directive.
Last verified 2026-07-07
Ireland EU
- Irish MMF Regulations S.I. 269/2018
What Ireland's S.I. 269/2018 does for money market funds: the Central Bank as competent authority, and the grounds and steps to withdraw an MMF authorisation.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - The Central Bank UCITS Regulations (S.I. 316/2026)
What the Central Bank's own UCITS rulebook does: the 2026 Regulations that replaced S.I. 230/2019, covering investment limits, liquidity management tools, dealing, performance fees, reporting, management companies and depositaries, every claim linked to the instrument.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - The ICAV Act (Ireland, 2015)
What the ICAV Act does — Ireland's bespoke corporate fund vehicle, registered by the Central Bank, usable as a UCITS or an AIF, with variable capital, segregated sub-funds, and the US check-the-box advantage — every claim linked to the Act.
Last verified 2026-07-07 - The Irish AIFM Regulations 2013 (S.I. 257/2013)
What Ireland's AIFMD transposition actually does: who needs an Irish AIFM authorisation, the sub-threshold registration route, capital, delegation, depositary and reporting rules, and the 2026 AIFMD II amendments, every claim linked to the Regulations.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - The Irish IFCMPA 2005
What the Investment Funds, Companies and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2005 actually does — the Central Bank authorisation regime for Ireland's non-UCITS common contractual funds, segregated liability of sub-funds, and the CCF beneficial-ownership register — every claim linked to the Act.
Last verified 2026-07-26 - The Irish Investment Limited Partnerships Act 1994
What the ILP Act does as amended by the 2020 Act: formation and Central Bank authorisation, general partner and depositary rules, the limited partner safe harbour, umbrella ILPs with segregated liability, the beneficial ownership register and migration, every claim linked to the Act.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - The Irish UCITS Regulations (S.I. 352/2011)
What the 2011 UCITS Regulations actually do — the two-layer Irish framework (the transposing S.I. plus the Central Bank UCITS Regulations 2026, which replaced the 2019 Regulations), the eligible-asset and 5/10/40 investment rules, the legal forms, the Central Bank as authoriser, and the amendment history — every claim linked to the law itself.
Last verified 2026-10-07 - The Irish Unit Trusts Act 1990
What the Unit Trusts Act 1990 actually does — the Central Bank authorisation regime for Ireland's non-UCITS unit trust schemes, the management-company-plus-trustee structure, and how it slots into the modern Irish AIF toolkit — every claim linked to the Act.
Last verified 2026-07-26
Malta EU
- The Malta Investment Services Act (Cap 370)
What the Malta Investment Services Act actually does — the single licensing perimeter for providing investment services in or from Malta, the MFSA's authorisation and supervisory powers, and how the fund regime hangs off it — every claim linked to the Act, with clause-level search across all 47 sections.
Last verified 2026-10-11
United Kingdom UK
- FCA ESG sourcebook (SDR): summary of the rules
FCA ESG sourcebook: TCFD climate disclosures, the anti-greenwashing rule (ESG 4.3.1R), the four sustainability labels, and naming and marketing restrictions.
Last verified 2026-07-15 - The FCA COLL sourcebook (UK)
What the FCA COLL sourcebook is — the UK's product and operating rules for authorised funds (UCITS schemes, non-UCITS retail schemes and qualified investor schemes): constitution, investment and borrowing powers, dealing and valuation, the depositary, winding up, and recognition of overseas schemes — every claim linked to the FCA Handbook.
Last verified 2026-07-14 - The FCA FUND sourcebook (UK)
What the FCA FUND sourcebook is — the UK's onshored AIFMD operating conditions for full-scope UK AIFMs (transparency, leverage, delegation, depositary, valuation, marketing) plus the National Private Placement Regime for marketing non-UK funds into the UK — every claim linked to the FCA Handbook.
Last verified 2026-07-14 - The Long-Term Asset Fund (UK, FCA COLL 15)
What the LTAF is — the UK's open-ended fund for illiquid long-term assets, its liquidity-matched redemption model (90-day notice, monthly dealing) and its widened retail/DC-pension access — every claim linked to the FCA rules.
Last verified 2026-07-09
Switzerland Europe (non-EU)
- Swiss CISA (KAG) fund law: the practitioner's summary
What the Swiss Collective Investment Schemes Act requires: four fund forms, FINMA authorisation and approval, the L-QIF, custodian banks and foreign funds.
Last verified 2026-10-05
Channel Islands
- The Collective Investment Funds (Jersey) Law 1988
What Jersey's fund statute does. It sets the public-offer test, the permit and certificate gates, and the code-of-practice power, with every claim linked to the Law.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - The Financial Services (Jersey) Law 1998
How Jersey licenses the people who run funds. Covers the fund services business definition, registration, conditions, codes and the unenforceable-contract rule, linked to the Law.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - The Jersey Private Fund (JPF)
What the JPF is — Jersey's 24-hour, light-touch private fund, its eligible-investor and (post-2025) uncapped-holder rules, the DSP model — every claim linked to the JFSC guide.
Last verified 2026-07-07 - Guernsey Class B Rules 2021
How Guernsey authorises Class B open-ended funds: independent manager and trustee, breach deadlines, scheme particulars, reports and the 2024 amendment.
Last verified 2026-10-06 - Guernsey Class Q Rules 2021
How Guernsey authorises Class Q funds for qualifying professional investors: the investor test, manager and custodian, breach reporting and filings.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - Guernsey Closed-Ended Scheme Rules 2021
How the GFSC authorises closed-ended funds: designated administrator, optional custody, conflicts, information particulars and filings, linked to the Rules.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - Guernsey Prospectus Rules 2025
What Guernsey's Prospectus Rules 2025 cover: registered funds, Category 2 offers, the 200-person and professional investor exclusions, content and filing.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - The Guernsey PIF Rules 2025
What the Guernsey Private Investment Fund Rules 2025 do — the QPIF and Family PIF routes, one-business-day GFSC registration, and the designated-administrator model that carries the diligence — every claim linked to the GFSC rules.
Last verified 2026-07-07 - The Protection of Investors (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2020
Guernsey's fund and investment statute. It licenses controlled investment business, declares schemes authorised or registered, and powers every GFSC fund rulebook.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - The Registered Collective Investment Scheme Rules 2021 (Guernsey)
How Guernsey registers open-ended and closed-ended funds. Covers the designated administrator model, custody and audit, conflicts, offering documents and filings, linked to the GFSC rules.
Last verified 2026-10-06
Caribbean & Bermuda Caribbean
- Cayman CIMA fund rules: the practitioner's summary
What four CIMA rules require of Cayman regulated funds: the NAV calculation policy, offering document contents, asset segregation and board governance.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - The Cayman Mutual Funds Act (2025 Revision)
What the Cayman Mutual Funds Act requires of open-ended funds: the four CIMA routes, the 80,000-dollar minimum, audit, return, annual fee and the 2026 tokenised-fund rules.
Last verified 2026-10-06 - The Cayman Private Funds Act (2025 Revision)
What the Cayman Private Funds Act requires: a CIMA application within 21 days of commitments, audit, return, fee, valuation, custody, cash monitoring and tokenised funds.
Last verified 2026-10-06 - The BVI Securities and Investment Business Act (SIBA)
What SIBA actually does — the licensing perimeter for investment business in the BVI, the investment-activity / investment-business definitions that catch fund managers, and how it frames the BVI funds regime — every claim linked to the Act, with clause-level search across all 120 sections.
Last verified 2026-07-09 - Bermuda Investment Funds Act 2006: the practitioner's summary
What Bermuda's Investment Funds Act 2006 requires: authorised fund classes, private and professional funds, qualified participants and annual BMA filings.
Last verified 2026-10-05
United States Americas
- The US Investment Advisers Act of 1940
What the Investment Advisers Act actually requires — who is an "investment adviser", SEC vs state registration, the §206 anti-fraud / fiduciary core, and the private-fund-adviser and exempt-reporting-adviser routes — every claim linked to the compiled Act, clause-searchable.
Last verified 2026-07-09 - The US Investment Company Act of 1940
What the Investment Company Act actually governs — which pooled vehicles are "investment companies", SEC registration, the governance / custody / affiliated-transaction and leverage limits that shape US funds, and why most private funds work to stay outside it — every claim linked to the compiled Act, clause-searchable.
Last verified 2026-07-09
Singapore Asia-Pacific
- The MAS Code on Collective Investment Schemes
What Singapore's CIS Code actually requires of a retail scheme's manager, approved trustee and (for VCC schemes) VCC directors and custodian — the conduct obligations, valuation and dealing rules, and the seven investment appendices — every claim linked to the Code itself.
Last verified 2026-07-15 - The Singapore Securities and Futures Act 2001 (SFA)
What the SFA actually governs — Singapore's capital-markets statute behind fund-management (CMS / LFMC / RFMC) licensing and the collective-investment-scheme authorisation/recognition regime that MAS administers — every claim linked to the Act, with clause-level search across the SFA.
Last verified 2026-07-09
Hong Kong Asia-Pacific
- SFC Code on Open-ended Fund Companies
How Hong Kong's OFC Code governs public and private open-ended fund companies: registration, directors, investment manager, custodian, reporting and termination, linked to the Code.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - SFC Code on Real Estate Investment Trusts
What Hong Kong's REIT Code requires of an SFC-authorised listed REIT: the 75% rental-income test, 50% borrowing cap, 90% payout, valuer rotation and connected-party rules, linked to the Code.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - SFC Code on Unit Trusts and Mutual Funds
What Hong Kong's UT Code requires of an SFC-authorised retail fund: trustee and manager tests, spread and borrowing limits, dealing, pricing errors and reporting, linked to the Code.
Last verified 2026-10-05
Middle East
- The DIFC Collective Investment Law 2010
What the DIFC Collective Investment Law (DIFC Law No. 2 of 2010) actually does — the DFSA-administered framework for funds in the Dubai International Financial Centre: Domestic vs Foreign Funds, the Public / Exempt / Qualified Investor Fund tiers, and the Fund Manager requirement — every claim linked to the Law, clause-searchable.
Last verified 2026-07-09 - The ADGM FSMR
What ADGM's primary financial-services statute actually does — the FSRA's powers, the Authorised Person / Recognised Body framework, and where the fund regime sits (with the Fund Rulebook underneath) — every claim linked to the Regulations, clause-searchable.
Last verified 2026-07-15 - The ADGM Fund Rulebook (FUNDS)
What the ADGM FSRA Fund Rulebook (FUNDS) actually does — the Abu Dhabi Global Market framework for funds: Domestic vs Foreign Funds, the Public / Exempt / Qualified Investor Fund tiers, the Fund Manager requirement and the investment/borrowing rules — every claim linked to the rulebook, clause-searchable across all 259 rules.
Last verified 2026-07-09
Mauritius Africa
- Mauritius CIS Regulations 2008: the practitioner's summary
What the Mauritius CIS and Closed-end Funds Regulations 2008 require: authorisation, Global schemes, professional CIS and expert funds, custody and NAV rules.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - Mauritius ESG fund guidelines: the practitioner's summary
What the FSC Mauritius ESG fund guidelines require: the two-thirds NAV test, the naming limit, offering-document disclosures, annual reports and certification.
Last verified 2026-10-05
Retail funds
- SFC Code on Real Estate Investment Trusts
What Hong Kong's REIT Code requires of an SFC-authorised listed REIT: the 75% rental-income test, 50% borrowing cap, 90% payout, valuer rotation and connected-party rules, linked to the Code.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - SFC Code on Unit Trusts and Mutual Funds
What Hong Kong's UT Code requires of an SFC-authorised retail fund: trustee and manager tests, spread and borrowing limits, dealing, pricing errors and reporting, linked to the Code.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - The Central Bank UCITS Regulations (S.I. 316/2026)
What the Central Bank's own UCITS rulebook does: the 2026 Regulations that replaced S.I. 230/2019, covering investment limits, liquidity management tools, dealing, performance fees, reporting, management companies and depositaries, every claim linked to the instrument.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - The FCA COLL sourcebook (UK)
What the FCA COLL sourcebook is — the UK's product and operating rules for authorised funds (UCITS schemes, non-UCITS retail schemes and qualified investor schemes): constitution, investment and borrowing powers, dealing and valuation, the depositary, winding up, and recognition of overseas schemes — every claim linked to the FCA Handbook.
Last verified 2026-07-14 - The Irish UCITS Regulations (S.I. 352/2011)
What the 2011 UCITS Regulations actually do — the two-layer Irish framework (the transposing S.I. plus the Central Bank UCITS Regulations 2026, which replaced the 2019 Regulations), the eligible-asset and 5/10/40 investment rules, the legal forms, the Central Bank as authoriser, and the amendment history — every claim linked to the law itself.
Last verified 2026-10-07 - The MAS Code on Collective Investment Schemes
What Singapore's CIS Code actually requires of a retail scheme's manager, approved trustee and (for VCC schemes) VCC directors and custodian — the conduct obligations, valuation and dealing rules, and the seven investment appendices — every claim linked to the Code itself.
Last verified 2026-07-15 - The UCI Law (Luxembourg, 17 December 2010)
What the 2010 UCI Law actually does — the Part I UCITS / Part II split, the 5/10/40 investment limits, the EUR 1.25m minimum, the FCP vs SICAV forms, the 0.05% / 0.01% subscription tax, and its amendment history — every claim linked to the law itself.
Last verified 2026-07-14 - The UCITS Directive
What UCITS does — the EU retail fund regime, eligible assets, the 5/10/40 diversification rule, the single depositary, the retail passport, and the 2026 liquidity-tool changes — every claim linked to the directive.
Last verified 2026-07-07 - The US Investment Company Act of 1940
What the Investment Company Act actually governs — which pooled vehicles are "investment companies", SEC registration, the governance / custody / affiliated-transaction and leverage limits that shape US funds, and why most private funds work to stay outside it — every claim linked to the compiled Act, clause-searchable.
Last verified 2026-07-09
Alternative & private funds
- Guernsey Class B Rules 2021
How Guernsey authorises Class B open-ended funds: independent manager and trustee, breach deadlines, scheme particulars, reports and the 2024 amendment.
Last verified 2026-10-06 - Guernsey Class Q Rules 2021
How Guernsey authorises Class Q funds for qualifying professional investors: the investor test, manager and custodian, breach reporting and filings.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - Guernsey Closed-Ended Scheme Rules 2021
How the GFSC authorises closed-ended funds: designated administrator, optional custody, conflicts, information particulars and filings, linked to the Rules.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - Luxembourg RAIF Law 2016: summary for fund managers
The Luxembourg RAIF Law of 23 July 2016: who may invest, the no-CSSF-approval route through an authorised AIFM, risk spreading, the tax election and amendments.
Last verified 2026-07-07 - Luxembourg SIF Law 2007: summary for fund managers
The Luxembourg SIF Law of 13 February 2007: scope, the €100,000 well-informed investor test, risk spreading under CSSF 25/901 and the 0.01% subscription tax.
Last verified 2026-07-07 - Mauritius CIS Regulations 2008: the practitioner's summary
What the Mauritius CIS and Closed-end Funds Regulations 2008 require: authorisation, Global schemes, professional CIS and expert funds, custody and NAV rules.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - SFC Code on Open-ended Fund Companies
How Hong Kong's OFC Code governs public and private open-ended fund companies: registration, directors, investment manager, custodian, reporting and termination, linked to the Code.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - The ADGM Fund Rulebook (FUNDS)
What the ADGM FSRA Fund Rulebook (FUNDS) actually does — the Abu Dhabi Global Market framework for funds: Domestic vs Foreign Funds, the Public / Exempt / Qualified Investor Fund tiers, the Fund Manager requirement and the investment/borrowing rules — every claim linked to the rulebook, clause-searchable across all 259 rules.
Last verified 2026-07-09 - The Cayman Mutual Funds Act (2025 Revision)
What the Cayman Mutual Funds Act requires of open-ended funds: the four CIMA routes, the 80,000-dollar minimum, audit, return, annual fee and the 2026 tokenised-fund rules.
Last verified 2026-10-06 - The Cayman Private Funds Act (2025 Revision)
What the Cayman Private Funds Act requires: a CIMA application within 21 days of commitments, audit, return, fee, valuation, custody, cash monitoring and tokenised funds.
Last verified 2026-10-06 - The Collective Investment Funds (Jersey) Law 1988
What Jersey's fund statute does. It sets the public-offer test, the permit and certificate gates, and the code-of-practice power, with every claim linked to the Law.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - The DIFC Collective Investment Law 2010
What the DIFC Collective Investment Law (DIFC Law No. 2 of 2010) actually does — the DFSA-administered framework for funds in the Dubai International Financial Centre: Domestic vs Foreign Funds, the Public / Exempt / Qualified Investor Fund tiers, and the Fund Manager requirement — every claim linked to the Law, clause-searchable.
Last verified 2026-07-09 - The ELTIF Regulation
What the ELTIF does — the EU's retail-passportable long-term-asset fund, how ELTIF 2.0 opened it to retail and to open-ended structures, and the RTS that set the liquidity terms — every claim linked to the regulation.
Last verified 2026-07-07 - The EuSEF Regulation (EU No 346/2013)
What the EuSEF Regulation actually does — the voluntary EU label and marketing passport for qualifying social entrepreneurship funds, the 70% social-undertaking test, the social-impact measurement duty, and the sub-€500m registration route — every claim linked to the consolidated regulation.
Last verified 2026-07-26 - The EuVECA Regulation (EU No 345/2013)
What the EuVECA Regulation actually does — the voluntary EU label and marketing passport for qualifying venture capital funds, the 70% qualifying-investment test, the sub-€500m registration route, and the 2017 opening to larger managers — every claim linked to the consolidated regulation.
Last verified 2026-07-26 - The Guernsey PIF Rules 2025
What the Guernsey Private Investment Fund Rules 2025 do — the QPIF and Family PIF routes, one-business-day GFSC registration, and the designated-administrator model that carries the diligence — every claim linked to the GFSC rules.
Last verified 2026-07-07 - The ICAV Act (Ireland, 2015)
What the ICAV Act does — Ireland's bespoke corporate fund vehicle, registered by the Central Bank, usable as a UCITS or an AIF, with variable capital, segregated sub-funds, and the US check-the-box advantage — every claim linked to the Act.
Last verified 2026-07-07 - The Irish IFCMPA 2005
What the Investment Funds, Companies and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2005 actually does — the Central Bank authorisation regime for Ireland's non-UCITS common contractual funds, segregated liability of sub-funds, and the CCF beneficial-ownership register — every claim linked to the Act.
Last verified 2026-07-26 - The Irish Investment Limited Partnerships Act 1994
What the ILP Act does as amended by the 2020 Act: formation and Central Bank authorisation, general partner and depositary rules, the limited partner safe harbour, umbrella ILPs with segregated liability, the beneficial ownership register and migration, every claim linked to the Act.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - The Irish Unit Trusts Act 1990
What the Unit Trusts Act 1990 actually does — the Central Bank authorisation regime for Ireland's non-UCITS unit trust schemes, the management-company-plus-trustee structure, and how it slots into the modern Irish AIF toolkit — every claim linked to the Act.
Last verified 2026-07-26 - The Jersey Private Fund (JPF)
What the JPF is — Jersey's 24-hour, light-touch private fund, its eligible-investor and (post-2025) uncapped-holder rules, the DSP model — every claim linked to the JFSC guide.
Last verified 2026-07-07 - The Long-Term Asset Fund (UK, FCA COLL 15)
What the LTAF is — the UK's open-ended fund for illiquid long-term assets, its liquidity-matched redemption model (90-day notice, monthly dealing) and its widened retail/DC-pension access — every claim linked to the FCA rules.
Last verified 2026-07-09 - The Registered Collective Investment Scheme Rules 2021 (Guernsey)
How Guernsey registers open-ended and closed-ended funds. Covers the designated administrator model, custody and audit, conflicts, offering documents and filings, linked to the GFSC rules.
Last verified 2026-10-06 - The SICAR Law (Luxembourg, 15 June 2004)
What the SICAR Law does — a risk-capital-only mandate with no risk-spreading obligation, well-informed investors (€100,000 post-2023), and a favourable tax regime — every claim linked to the law.
Last verified 2026-07-07
Manager regimes
- AIFMD
What AIFMD does — authorises the manager, sets operating conditions, leverage, delegation, reporting and the marketing passport — and what AIFMD II changed from 16 April 2026: harmonised liquidity tools and a loan-origination framework. Every claim linked to the directive.
Last verified 2026-07-07 - Luxembourg AIFM Law 2013: summary for fund managers
Luxembourg AIFM Law of 12 July 2013: registered vs authorised managers at €100m/€500m, operating conditions, delegation, depositaries and the AIFMD II changes.
Last verified 2026-07-07 - The FCA FUND sourcebook (UK)
What the FCA FUND sourcebook is — the UK's onshored AIFMD operating conditions for full-scope UK AIFMs (transparency, leverage, delegation, depositary, valuation, marketing) plus the National Private Placement Regime for marketing non-UK funds into the UK — every claim linked to the FCA Handbook.
Last verified 2026-07-14 - The Irish AIFM Regulations 2013 (S.I. 257/2013)
What Ireland's AIFMD transposition actually does: who needs an Irish AIFM authorisation, the sub-threshold registration route, capital, delegation, depositary and reporting rules, and the 2026 AIFMD II amendments, every claim linked to the Regulations.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - The US Investment Advisers Act of 1940
What the Investment Advisers Act actually requires — who is an "investment adviser", SEC vs state registration, the §206 anti-fraud / fiduciary core, and the private-fund-adviser and exempt-reporting-adviser routes — every claim linked to the compiled Act, clause-searchable.
Last verified 2026-07-09
Product regimes
- Bermuda Investment Funds Act 2006: the practitioner's summary
What Bermuda's Investment Funds Act 2006 requires: authorised fund classes, private and professional funds, qualified participants and annual BMA filings.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - Cayman CIMA fund rules: the practitioner's summary
What four CIMA rules require of Cayman regulated funds: the NAV calculation policy, offering document contents, asset segregation and board governance.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - EU MMF Regulation 2017/1131
What the EU Money Market Funds Regulation requires: VNAV, public debt CNAV and LVNAV types, eligible assets, liquidity floors, stress tests and reporting.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - Guernsey Class B Rules 2021
How Guernsey authorises Class B open-ended funds: independent manager and trustee, breach deadlines, scheme particulars, reports and the 2024 amendment.
Last verified 2026-10-06 - Guernsey Class Q Rules 2021
How Guernsey authorises Class Q funds for qualifying professional investors: the investor test, manager and custodian, breach reporting and filings.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - Guernsey Closed-Ended Scheme Rules 2021
How the GFSC authorises closed-ended funds: designated administrator, optional custody, conflicts, information particulars and filings, linked to the Rules.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - Irish MMF Regulations S.I. 269/2018
What Ireland's S.I. 269/2018 does for money market funds: the Central Bank as competent authority, and the grounds and steps to withdraw an MMF authorisation.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - Luxembourg RAIF Law 2016: summary for fund managers
The Luxembourg RAIF Law of 23 July 2016: who may invest, the no-CSSF-approval route through an authorised AIFM, risk spreading, the tax election and amendments.
Last verified 2026-07-07 - Luxembourg SIF Law 2007: summary for fund managers
The Luxembourg SIF Law of 13 February 2007: scope, the €100,000 well-informed investor test, risk spreading under CSSF 25/901 and the 0.01% subscription tax.
Last verified 2026-07-07 - Mauritius CIS Regulations 2008: the practitioner's summary
What the Mauritius CIS and Closed-end Funds Regulations 2008 require: authorisation, Global schemes, professional CIS and expert funds, custody and NAV rules.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - SFC Code on Open-ended Fund Companies
How Hong Kong's OFC Code governs public and private open-ended fund companies: registration, directors, investment manager, custodian, reporting and termination, linked to the Code.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - SFC Code on Real Estate Investment Trusts
What Hong Kong's REIT Code requires of an SFC-authorised listed REIT: the 75% rental-income test, 50% borrowing cap, 90% payout, valuer rotation and connected-party rules, linked to the Code.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - SFC Code on Unit Trusts and Mutual Funds
What Hong Kong's UT Code requires of an SFC-authorised retail fund: trustee and manager tests, spread and borrowing limits, dealing, pricing errors and reporting, linked to the Code.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - Swiss CISA (KAG) fund law: the practitioner's summary
What the Swiss Collective Investment Schemes Act requires: four fund forms, FINMA authorisation and approval, the L-QIF, custodian banks and foreign funds.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - The ADGM Fund Rulebook (FUNDS)
What the ADGM FSRA Fund Rulebook (FUNDS) actually does — the Abu Dhabi Global Market framework for funds: Domestic vs Foreign Funds, the Public / Exempt / Qualified Investor Fund tiers, the Fund Manager requirement and the investment/borrowing rules — every claim linked to the rulebook, clause-searchable across all 259 rules.
Last verified 2026-07-09 - The Cayman Mutual Funds Act (2025 Revision)
What the Cayman Mutual Funds Act requires of open-ended funds: the four CIMA routes, the 80,000-dollar minimum, audit, return, annual fee and the 2026 tokenised-fund rules.
Last verified 2026-10-06 - The Cayman Private Funds Act (2025 Revision)
What the Cayman Private Funds Act requires: a CIMA application within 21 days of commitments, audit, return, fee, valuation, custody, cash monitoring and tokenised funds.
Last verified 2026-10-06 - The Central Bank UCITS Regulations (S.I. 316/2026)
What the Central Bank's own UCITS rulebook does: the 2026 Regulations that replaced S.I. 230/2019, covering investment limits, liquidity management tools, dealing, performance fees, reporting, management companies and depositaries, every claim linked to the instrument.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - The Collective Investment Funds (Jersey) Law 1988
What Jersey's fund statute does. It sets the public-offer test, the permit and certificate gates, and the code-of-practice power, with every claim linked to the Law.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - The DIFC Collective Investment Law 2010
What the DIFC Collective Investment Law (DIFC Law No. 2 of 2010) actually does — the DFSA-administered framework for funds in the Dubai International Financial Centre: Domestic vs Foreign Funds, the Public / Exempt / Qualified Investor Fund tiers, and the Fund Manager requirement — every claim linked to the Law, clause-searchable.
Last verified 2026-07-09 - The ELTIF Regulation
What the ELTIF does — the EU's retail-passportable long-term-asset fund, how ELTIF 2.0 opened it to retail and to open-ended structures, and the RTS that set the liquidity terms — every claim linked to the regulation.
Last verified 2026-07-07 - The EuSEF Regulation (EU No 346/2013)
What the EuSEF Regulation actually does — the voluntary EU label and marketing passport for qualifying social entrepreneurship funds, the 70% social-undertaking test, the social-impact measurement duty, and the sub-€500m registration route — every claim linked to the consolidated regulation.
Last verified 2026-07-26 - The EuVECA Regulation (EU No 345/2013)
What the EuVECA Regulation actually does — the voluntary EU label and marketing passport for qualifying venture capital funds, the 70% qualifying-investment test, the sub-€500m registration route, and the 2017 opening to larger managers — every claim linked to the consolidated regulation.
Last verified 2026-07-26 - The FCA COLL sourcebook (UK)
What the FCA COLL sourcebook is — the UK's product and operating rules for authorised funds (UCITS schemes, non-UCITS retail schemes and qualified investor schemes): constitution, investment and borrowing powers, dealing and valuation, the depositary, winding up, and recognition of overseas schemes — every claim linked to the FCA Handbook.
Last verified 2026-07-14 - The Guernsey PIF Rules 2025
What the Guernsey Private Investment Fund Rules 2025 do — the QPIF and Family PIF routes, one-business-day GFSC registration, and the designated-administrator model that carries the diligence — every claim linked to the GFSC rules.
Last verified 2026-07-07 - The ICAV Act (Ireland, 2015)
What the ICAV Act does — Ireland's bespoke corporate fund vehicle, registered by the Central Bank, usable as a UCITS or an AIF, with variable capital, segregated sub-funds, and the US check-the-box advantage — every claim linked to the Act.
Last verified 2026-07-07 - The Irish IFCMPA 2005
What the Investment Funds, Companies and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2005 actually does — the Central Bank authorisation regime for Ireland's non-UCITS common contractual funds, segregated liability of sub-funds, and the CCF beneficial-ownership register — every claim linked to the Act.
Last verified 2026-07-26 - The Irish Investment Limited Partnerships Act 1994
What the ILP Act does as amended by the 2020 Act: formation and Central Bank authorisation, general partner and depositary rules, the limited partner safe harbour, umbrella ILPs with segregated liability, the beneficial ownership register and migration, every claim linked to the Act.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - The Irish UCITS Regulations (S.I. 352/2011)
What the 2011 UCITS Regulations actually do — the two-layer Irish framework (the transposing S.I. plus the Central Bank UCITS Regulations 2026, which replaced the 2019 Regulations), the eligible-asset and 5/10/40 investment rules, the legal forms, the Central Bank as authoriser, and the amendment history — every claim linked to the law itself.
Last verified 2026-10-07 - The Irish Unit Trusts Act 1990
What the Unit Trusts Act 1990 actually does — the Central Bank authorisation regime for Ireland's non-UCITS unit trust schemes, the management-company-plus-trustee structure, and how it slots into the modern Irish AIF toolkit — every claim linked to the Act.
Last verified 2026-07-26 - The Jersey Private Fund (JPF)
What the JPF is — Jersey's 24-hour, light-touch private fund, its eligible-investor and (post-2025) uncapped-holder rules, the DSP model — every claim linked to the JFSC guide.
Last verified 2026-07-07 - The Long-Term Asset Fund (UK, FCA COLL 15)
What the LTAF is — the UK's open-ended fund for illiquid long-term assets, its liquidity-matched redemption model (90-day notice, monthly dealing) and its widened retail/DC-pension access — every claim linked to the FCA rules.
Last verified 2026-07-09 - The MAS Code on Collective Investment Schemes
What Singapore's CIS Code actually requires of a retail scheme's manager, approved trustee and (for VCC schemes) VCC directors and custodian — the conduct obligations, valuation and dealing rules, and the seven investment appendices — every claim linked to the Code itself.
Last verified 2026-07-15 - The Registered Collective Investment Scheme Rules 2021 (Guernsey)
How Guernsey registers open-ended and closed-ended funds. Covers the designated administrator model, custody and audit, conflicts, offering documents and filings, linked to the GFSC rules.
Last verified 2026-10-06 - The SICAR Law (Luxembourg, 15 June 2004)
What the SICAR Law does — a risk-capital-only mandate with no risk-spreading obligation, well-informed investors (€100,000 post-2023), and a favourable tax regime — every claim linked to the law.
Last verified 2026-07-07 - The UCI Law (Luxembourg, 17 December 2010)
What the 2010 UCI Law actually does — the Part I UCITS / Part II split, the 5/10/40 investment limits, the EUR 1.25m minimum, the FCP vs SICAV forms, the 0.05% / 0.01% subscription tax, and its amendment history — every claim linked to the law itself.
Last verified 2026-07-14 - The UCITS Directive
What UCITS does — the EU retail fund regime, eligible assets, the 5/10/40 diversification rule, the single depositary, the retail passport, and the 2026 liquidity-tool changes — every claim linked to the directive.
Last verified 2026-07-07 - The US Investment Company Act of 1940
What the Investment Company Act actually governs — which pooled vehicles are "investment companies", SEC registration, the governance / custody / affiliated-transaction and leverage limits that shape US funds, and why most private funds work to stay outside it — every claim linked to the compiled Act, clause-searchable.
Last verified 2026-07-09
Framework & market statutes
- EU cross-border fund distribution (CBDF)
What the 2019 cross-border distribution package sets: marketing material, pre-marketing, de-notification, local facilities, regulator fees and ESMA databases.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - SFTR, Regulation (EU) 2015/2365
What SFTR asks of UCITS and AIF managers: next-day reporting of repos and securities lending, fund report and prospectus disclosures, and collateral reuse.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - The ADGM FSMR
What ADGM's primary financial-services statute actually does — the FSRA's powers, the Authorised Person / Recognised Body framework, and where the fund regime sits (with the Fund Rulebook underneath) — every claim linked to the Regulations, clause-searchable.
Last verified 2026-07-15 - The BVI Securities and Investment Business Act (SIBA)
What SIBA actually does — the licensing perimeter for investment business in the BVI, the investment-activity / investment-business definitions that catch fund managers, and how it frames the BVI funds regime — every claim linked to the Act, with clause-level search across all 120 sections.
Last verified 2026-07-09 - The EU Benchmarks Regulation (BMR)
What the EU Benchmarks Regulation means for funds that use an index: registered administrators, fallback plans, prospectus wording and the 2026 scope change.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - The Financial Services (Jersey) Law 1998
How Jersey licenses the people who run funds. Covers the fund services business definition, registration, conditions, codes and the unenforceable-contract rule, linked to the Law.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - The Malta Investment Services Act (Cap 370)
What the Malta Investment Services Act actually does — the single licensing perimeter for providing investment services in or from Malta, the MFSA's authorisation and supervisory powers, and how the fund regime hangs off it — every claim linked to the Act, with clause-level search across all 47 sections.
Last verified 2026-10-11 - The Protection of Investors (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2020
Guernsey's fund and investment statute. It licenses controlled investment business, declares schemes authorised or registered, and powers every GFSC fund rulebook.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - The Singapore Securities and Futures Act 2001 (SFA)
What the SFA actually governs — Singapore's capital-markets statute behind fund-management (CMS / LFMC / RFMC) licensing and the collective-investment-scheme authorisation/recognition regime that MAS administers — every claim linked to the Act, with clause-level search across the SFA.
Last verified 2026-07-09
Disclosure regimes
- ESMA Guidelines on funds' names using ESG or sustainability terms
What the ESMA fund-names Guidelines actually require — the 80% investment threshold for any fund whose name uses ESG or sustainability terms, the PAB vs CTB exclusion split by term category, and who is in scope — every claim linked to the ESMA Guidelines.
Last verified 2026-07-26 - EU Taxonomy Regulation 2020/852
What the EU Taxonomy Regulation requires of funds: the Article 3 test, six objectives, DNSH, minimum safeguards and Article 5 to 7 disclosures on top of SFDR.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - FCA ESG sourcebook (SDR): summary of the rules
FCA ESG sourcebook: TCFD climate disclosures, the anti-greenwashing rule (ESG 4.3.1R), the four sustainability labels, and naming and marketing restrictions.
Last verified 2026-07-15 - Guernsey Prospectus Rules 2025
What Guernsey's Prospectus Rules 2025 cover: registered funds, Category 2 offers, the 200-person and professional investor exclusions, content and filing.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - Mauritius ESG fund guidelines: the practitioner's summary
What the FSC Mauritius ESG fund guidelines require: the two-thirds NAV test, the naming limit, offering-document disclosures, annual reports and certification.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - SFDR and its RTS 2022/1288
What SFDR requires of fund managers: the Article 4 PAI statement, Article 6, 8 and 9 product disclosures, website and periodic annexes, linked to the law.
Last verified 2026-10-05 - The PRIIPs Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 and RTS 2017/653: the practitioner's summary
What PRIIPs requires of retail funds. It covers the KID every retail UCITS and AIF must publish since 1 January 2023, its risk score, scenarios, cost tables and review duty, linked to the regulation.
Last verified 2026-10-05