UCITS Handbook [Hardcover]

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.
This handbook intends to introduce systematically recent developments in different areas of UCITS through a multi-disciplinary approach.
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.
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.

Contents

1. Setting up a UCITS Fund, Jerome Wigny and Celine Wilmet.
2. UCITS Management Companies, Jerome Wigny and Celine Wilmet.
3. Risk Management in the Context of UCITS IV, Thierry L?pez and Benjamin Gauthier.
4. Counterparty, Issuer and Concentration Risk
Management for UCITS funds, Romain Berry.
5. UCITS  The Investment Limits, Andrew P. White.
6. UCITS Distribution, Mark Evans.
7. The UCITS Management Company and Delegation, Killian Buckley and Ciara OSullivan.
8. UCITS Taxation, Andre Pesch.
9. Alternative UCITS, Christian Szylar.

Introduction xiii
Christian SZYLAR

Chapter 1. Setting up a UCITS Fund 1
J?r?me WIGNY and C?line WILMET

Chapter 2. UCITS Management Companies 41
J?r?me WIGNY and C?line WILMET

Chapter 3. Risk Management in the Context of UCITSIV 77
Thierry L?PEZ and Benjamin GAUTHló9