Mason Hayes & Curran LLP | Ireland | 27 Apr 2012
Finance Bill 2012 was signed into law by President Higgins on 31 March 2012 and has now been enacted as Finance Act 2012.
Mason Hayes & Curran LLP | Ireland | 24 Apr 2012
Recent statistics from the international funds industry show a significant increase in the use of Irish fund structures by both US and London based investment managers.
Mason Hayes & Curran LLP | Ireland, Netherlands | 24 Apr 2012
The Court of Appeal of Den Bosch, the Netherlands, awarded a Finnish investment fund a full refund of Dutch dividend tax withheld from dividends it received from investments in Dutch resident entities, in a decision issued on 9 March 2012.
Mason Hayes & Curran LLP | European Union, Ireland | 24 Apr 2012
The Irish Funds Industry Association has issued a response to the European Securities and Markets Authority discussion paper “Key concepts of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive and types of AIFM" (ESMA/2012/117).
Mason Hayes & Curran LLP | Global, Ireland | 24 Apr 2012
The Technical Committee of the International Organisation of Securities Commission has published a list of data categories for the collection of hedge fund information.
Mason Hayes & Curran LLP | European Union, Ireland | 24 Apr 2012
The Irish Funds Industry Association has issued a response to the European Securities and Markets Authority (“ESMA”) consultation paper on “ESMA’s guidelines on ETFs and other UCITS issues”.
Mason Hayes & Curran LLP | Ireland, USA | 17 Feb 2012
The Irish Funds Industry Association (IFIA) has welcomed the news that European fund managers stand to save up to a reported $1 billion in costs associated with reporting obligations under FATCA.
Mason Hayes & Curran LLP | Ireland | 17 Feb 2012
Statistics released by the Central Bank as at the end of November 2011, show the net asset value of Irish domiciled funds reaching a record high and exceeding €1 trillion.
Mason Hayes & Curran LLP | Ireland | 17 Feb 2012
The recently published Lipper 17th Annual Fund Encyclopaedia reported a year-on-year increase of close to 30% in the assets serviced by the funds industry in Ireland.
Mason Hayes & Curran LLP | Ireland | 17 Feb 2012
The Finance Bill 2012 was published on 8 February 2012 and reflects Finance Minister Michael Noonan's commitment in his Budget speech in December 2011 "to introduce a package of measures in the Finance Bill to support the continued success of the international funds industry”.