UCITS Handbook

<p>The goal of this Handbook on UCITS is to provide a one-stop source for investors and asset managers, service providers, students, researchers, and practitioners to learn the necessary knowledge and analytical skills they need when setting up, managing and monitoring a UCITS fund.<br /> This handbook intends to introduce systematically recent developments in different areas of UCITS through a multi-disciplinary approach.<br /> The coverage is broad and thorough with a balance of theory and applications. Each chapter covering a special aspect of UCITS is edited by leading experts and practitioners in the area and covers state-of-the-art methods and theory of the selected topic.<br /> The purpose of this UCITS handbook is to provide, in a clear format, a summary of the main aspects of each discipline that UCITS involves.</p> <p>Contents</p> <p>1. Setting up a UCITS Fund, Jerome Wigny and Celine Wilmet.<br /> 2. UCITS Management Companies, Jerome Wigny and Celine Wilmet.<br /> 3. Risk Management in the Context of UCITS IV, Thierry López and Benjamin Gauthier.<br /> 4. Counterparty, Issuer and Concentration Risk<br /> Management for UCITS funds, Romain Berry.<br /> 5. UCITS – The Investment Limits, Andrew P. White.<br /> 6. UCITS Distribution, Mark Evans.<br /> 7. The UCITS Management Company and Delegation, Killian Buckley and Ciara O’Sullivan.<br /> 8. UCITS Taxation, Andre Pesch.<br /> 9. Alternative UCITS, Christian Szylar.</p>