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Course overview
Euromoney Training is pleased to bring you our "7th Annual Asset Management Asia Seminar" covering legal, regulatory and compliance issues in the asset management industry. We have brought together expert practitioners to present today's hottest issues on asset management and the related regulatory framework in Asia. The seminar will examine recent developments in fund management, unravel regulatory issues, and identify emerging challenges of the fund industry in compliance and risk management.
Summary of content
- Understand the regulatory framework and recent developments for investment and fund management in mainland China, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia and Indonesia
- Learn about establishment and management issues of offshore funds
- Receive updates on securities investment funds and RMB denominated funds in China
- Learn about the legal implications of a global merger of the foreign investor of a PRC FMC
- Learn about recent tax developments in the region
Who should attend this training seminar?
- Compliance and risk managers in asset management companies, banks, corporate and financial institutions
- Prime brokers and fund management service providers
- Fund managers and distributors
- Hedge fund managers
- Investment fund managers
- In-house legal counsel and advisors
- Lawyers
- Pension fund trustees
- Capital market managers
- Regulators
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Supporting publication
Singapore funds regulations and updates
- Regulatory and licensing framework
- Impact of Dodd-Frank, Volcker & AIFMD Developments
- New licensing and exemption regime
- Distribution of funds
- Safe harbours
- Updates 2011
- Fair dealing guidelines
- Representative notification
- Distribution of unlisted investment products
- Product highlight sheet
Tan Woon Hum
Partner, Trust Asset & Wealth Management
Shook Lin & Bok LLP, Singapore
Asset management and taxation issues in Singapore
- Key tax questions
- Singapore solution: 30-50 scheme and enhanced tier scheme
- Singapore domiciled funds
- Potential issues
Tan Hui Cheng
Senior Manager, Tax-Financial Services
PricewaterhouseCoopers Services LLP, Singapore
Lessons from regulatory enforcement actions for asset managers
- Impact of expert networks and insider dealing prosecutions
- Appropriate internal controls over inside information
- Mis-selling and product suitability prosecutions
- Ensuring appropriate selling practices
- Issues with achieving appropriate selling practices
- Issues with achieving appropriate and clear disclosures
Alex Duperouzel
Managing Director
ComplianceAsia
Legal updates on asset management business in the PRC
- The procedures on acquisition of a PRC FMC by a foreign investor
- Qualifications of the foreign investor
- Anti-trust review
- State owned assets and procedures with the assets exchange
- Updates on securities investment funds
- Guaranteed Fund
- Special requirements on legal opinion
- Updates on regulation on investment advisory business
- Updates on investment in Index Futures by QDII
- Updates on assets management business of commercial banks and trust companies
Andrew Fu
Partner
King & Wood PRC Lawyers, China
RMB-denominated funds
- Regulatory framework for RMB-denominated funds
- Recent rules on setting up and investing into onshore RMB funds by foreign fund managers and investors
- Market entry barriers - the challenges for investors
- Compliance requirements
- Implications for global fund managers
Basil Hwang
Partner, Corporate and Securities
Dechert LLP, Hong Kong
Offshore funds and Hong Kong
- Distributed and fund raising - legal requirements and restrictions
- Regulatory issues - licensing for fund managers
- Changes to the Code on Unit Trusts and Mutual Funds
Rolf Hayden
Partner
Simmons & Simmons, Hong Kong
Fund regulation in Malaysia
- Overview of regulatory and licensing framework
- Offerings of funds into Malaysia: requirement for approval and registration
- Extraterritorial application of Malaysian laws
- Distribution of funds into Malaysia
Azizul Azmi Adnan
Partner, Finance & Projects Practice
Group, Wong & Partners, Malaysia
Legal updates on fund regulation in Indonesia
· Overview of regulatory and licensing framework
· Updates for 2011
· The Rekadana - analysis of main features
· Distribution of funds into Indonesia
· Investor challenges and opportunities
Freddy Karyadi
Senior Associate
ABNR, Indonesia
Taiwan fund distribution: regulation and challenges
- Market entry barriers
- Growing offering document and post registration compliance requirements
- Master agent disputes
- AML issues both real and perceived
- Private label platform issues with master agent exclusivity
- Limitations on distributing asset management services in non-fund format
- Impact of new regulated offshore structured product distribution regime
- Limitations and uncertainties for placement of unregistered funds
Thomas H. McGowan
Foreign Legal Consultant
Russin & Vecchi, Taiwan
Overview of Korea's investment management regulatory regime
- Managing assets for and providing investment advice to Korean investors
- Offer and sale of offshore funds to Korean investors
- Sale of offshore funds to Korean feeder funds and fund of funds
- Hedge Funds
- Recent developments
Pil-Kook Lee
Senior Foreign Attorney
Kim & Chang, South Korea
Japan regulatory / tax update
- Changes in disclosure items concerning corporate governance
- Structure of corporate governance
- Remuneration of directors and statutory auditors
- Cross-shareholding
- Voting results
- Voluntary adoption of IFRS
- Updates on tax developments
- What has been the FSA's response to the international developments since 2008?
- Improving the stability and transparency of OTC derivative transactions
- Strengthening securities clearing and settlement systems
- Consolidated regulation and supervision of securities companies
- Hedge funds regulation
- Development of reporting system for short selling
Scott D. Peterman
Partner, Foreign Legal Counsel
Sidley Austin LLP, Hong Kong and Japan
British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands
- BVI Securities Investment Business Act
- Regulation of mutual funds
- Regulation of investment business
- On-going requirements
- Cayman Securities Investment Business Law
- Cayman AML requirements for regulated mutual funds
Preetha Pillai
Conyers Dill & Pearman
Singapore
The Fullerton Hotel Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
This programme takes place on a non-residential basis at The Fullerton Hotel Singapore. Non-residential course fees include training facilities, documentation, lunches and refreshments for the duration of the programme. Delegates are responsible for arranging their own accommodation, however, a list of convenient hotels (many at specially negotiated rates) is available upon registration.
Interested in holding this course in-house? Please fill out your details and a member of our team will be in touch with more information.
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