Marketing Non-EU funds in Europe: The Impact MiFID II Rules Will Have on AIFMD

Dana Anagnostou will speak at a conference being held in London dedicated to Marketing non-EU funds in Europe. She focuses on the following topic: "The Impact MiFID II Rules will have on AIFMD":

• How MiFID II is shaping up off the back of ESMA’s advice
  • Overview and its likely impact on managers
  • Post-trade reporting, disclosure and transparency
  • Dealing with inducements
  • Interaction with the AIFMD provisions
  • Implications of the legislation for reverse solicitation
  • AIFM passporting under MiFID II
• How MiFID II is shaping distribution strategies
  • Identifying necessary operational changes
• Where we seem to be going with what constitutes “added value” to justify an inducement
  • Examine where the gold plating has got to
  • Other gold plating candidates
  • Potential pitfalls of interpretation in the cross border context.
• Examining MiFID II from the perspective of the split in UCITS:
• Complex / non-complex
  • what this implies for suitability and appropriateness tests 
  • the issue of due diligence on distributors and how you go about it
  • differing standards in different jurisdictions the Italian stock exchange model