APFI News & Events

In his CityWire Article: Supertanker funds: all aboard or time to jump ship? Jon 'JB' Beckett, APFI's UK Research Lead, discusses two of APFIs major themes: due diligence and regulatory concerns. Specifically, JB provides insight on how 'supertanker' funds are adjusting to the changing waters caused by AIFMD and incoming Ucits regulations.

Fund Forum Asia is a learning and networking event for the Asian fund management community. Roland Meerdter spoke about Blockbuster funds and the impacts on fund investors and the managers that run them. See the agenda here.

APFI was given the opportunity to speak at the Aberdeen Asset Management Fund Selector Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Roland Meerdter led the Best practice in fund selection workshop on the second day of the forum. Topics for discussion included:

• What is driving the increasing concentration of flows into a narrow group of funds?
• Are professional fund investors at risk of creating bubbles as fund selection methodologies at different firms are becoming increasingly homogeneous?
• Could scenario planning help to reduce those risks?

 

In the CityWire Article: 'Selector association APFI announces general assembly' Mussie Kidane talks with French fund selectors. Click here for a short video of Mussie speaking about the creation and goals of APFI. One of his quotes: ‘You have to be organised and have a voice. For that voice to be heard, we have to have momentum and also an organisational structure that allows it. So I think the APFI is the right way to do it. Together we have tremendous buying power.'