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ESMA Report on the Integration of Sustainability Risks and Disclosures Under SFDR

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The funds industry continues to wait for regulators and legislators to review and fix the multiple flaws in the existing SFDR regime. In the meantime, in July 2023, ESMA launched a “common supervisory action” ("CSA”)...more

Proskauer - The Capital Commitment

ESG in 2025: Finding the Sweet Spot in a Complex World

With ESG regulation now well embedded across all major jurisdictions, the trend we see for 2025 is about increasingly sophisticated triangulation by private fund managers between the regimes that apply by default (such as...more

Hogan Lovells

SFDR enforcement: Danish regulator says “Managers need to be better at ensuring that their investments are truly sustainable”

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In a statement on 21 March 2024, the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority advised providers of sustainable investment products to ensure that their internal processes comply with sustainable investment requirements. It...more

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New Year, Similar Concerns: The FCA's 2025 Priorities for UK Private Fund Managers

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On 26 February 2025, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a portfolio letter (Letter) explaining its supervision priorities for the asset management and alternatives portfolios....more

A&O Shearman

European Securities and Markets Authority publishes Q&As on application of guidelines on funds' names using environmental, social,...

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The European Securities and Markets Authority has published three sets of Q&As to provide further detail on the guidelines on funds which use ESG or sustainability-related terms in their names. The guidelines relate to...more

Goodwin

The 2024 Mansion House Speech: Points for Private Fund Managers

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On 14 November 2024, Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered her inaugural Mansion House 2024 speech, announcing a collection of reforms designed to drive growth and competitiveness in the financial services sector....more

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Horizon Scan for Private Investment Funds - Autumn 2024

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Welcome to the third edition of our Horizon Scan for 2024: key recent and expected funds, regulatory and tax developments to look out for. As before, we focus on the most important developments and changes that we expect...more

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UK Financial Conduct Authority Update on Notification of Use of Investment Labels Under Sustainability Disclosure Requirements...

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The FCA has provided an update on how firms should notify the U.S. Financial Conduct Authority when they are using an investment label under the sustainability disclosure requirements and investment labelling regime. Firms...more

Goodwin

Horizon Scan for Private Investment Funds - May 2024

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Welcome to the second edition of our Horizon Scan for 2024: key recent and expected funds, regulatory, and tax developments to look out for. As before, we focus on the most important developments and changes that we expect to...more

Mayer Brown

TCFD Reporting Pensions Regulator Review of 2023 Reports

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The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has published its latest review of pension scheme TCFD reports. This sets out TPR’s observations, feedback and suggested improvements for a selection of 30 reports published in 2023 (10% of the...more

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Irish Asset Management & Investment Funds ESG Newsletter - September / October 2023

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Regulation around ESG investment in Ireland is evolving rapidly with developments from the Central Bank of Ireland, European Commission and ESMA building an increasingly sophisticated regulatory backdrop. Our summary of...more

Goodwin

Horizon Scan for Private Investment Funds: Key Recent and Expected Funds, Regulatory, and Tax Developments to Look Out For

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Welcome to the third edition of our Horizon Scan, where we focus on some of the principal recent and expected developments and changes that we expect to be of interest to those in the private funds and investment management...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Navigating Uncertain Waters: ESG Takeaways for Private Capital Firms Subject to EU Law

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues continue to be a very significant topic for the private capital industry, whether through increasing demands from investors and other stakeholders or the continued stream of...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Final SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards Provide Private Fund Managers With Clarity, but Add Obligations

[co-author: Krishane Sri Rajkumar] On 6 April 2022, the European Commission finally adopted the regulatory technical standards (RTS) to supplement the Sustainability-Related Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and the EU Taxonomy...more

Alston & Bird

Investment Management, Trading & Markets – Secondaries Update – Q4 2021

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Welcome to Alston & Bird’s second quarterly update on the secondaries market. In this issue, we share insights on real estate secondaries, GP consent trends, current market updates (courtesy of M20 for this issue), and news...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

FCA Seeks to Improve Quality of ESG Fund Disclosures

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FCA has published guiding principles on the design, delivery, and disclosure of ESG and sustainable investment funds. On 19 July 2021, the FCA published a letter sent to chairs of authorised fund managers, which sets out...more

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Private Equity Comment: Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, ELTIFs, And ESG Issues Relating To ERISA

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This edition of Private Equity Comment looks at the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, which fund managers will need to comply with beginning 10 March, 2021, an ongoing consultation on European Long Term Investment...more

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Sustainable Finance In Luxembourg — What Managers Should Do Now

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Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 of 27 November, 2019 on sustainability-related disclosures in the financial services sector, as amended by Regulation (EU) of 18 June, 2020 on the establishment of a framework to facilitate...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Private Fund Managers Should Prepare for New ESG-Related Regulatory Obligations

The list of events for which 2020 will be remembered continues to grow and we are only two thirds of the way through the year. Environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues have come into focus in the financial community,...more

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