An interview with Managing Partner and CIO STUART MITCHELL of SW Mitchell Capital The interview focuses on staff recruitment and development, and how investment research is conducted at the firm. How do you develop your investment staff? What do you look for in a recruit on your investment side? How do you remunerate them? […] Read more »
Financial Conduct Authority Guidance on AIFM Directive Remuneration Provisions
By Dechert LLP The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) released proposed guidance on 6 September 2013 on its implementation of the remuneration provisions in the AIFM Directive (the AIFM Remuneration Code) for UK alternative investment fund managers (AIFMs). Investment managers taking advantage of the transitional period will need a compliant remuneration policy in place by […] Read more »
Concerns for Managers in the Build-up to AIFMD
By Roger Ganpatsingh, Director, Throgmorton The 22nd July looms large in the eyes of the hedge fund community with implementation of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers’ Directive (AIFMD) almost upon us. With the drop-dead- date less than two months away, large swathes of the Directive’s requirements and consequences remain clouded by the mists of […] Read more »