PENSIONS INVESTMENTS

Helen McGhee and Lynnette Bober (Joseph Hage Aaronson) provide an overview of the new rules and highlight some key points to watch.

Alistair Godwin and Andrew Yeomans (EY) review three areas of complexity that present challenges to asset managers.

Giles Salmond (Stewarts) assesses the likely impact of Advocate General Kokott’s opinion in the Dutch pension fund cases.

Melville Rodrigues (Apex Group) and Naomi Lawton (Allen & Overy) provide an overview of the new regime that offers additional flexibility and plugs a gap in the UK’s existing fund range.

Keighley on the loan relationship rules, Clipperton on purposive construction and the introduction of the Reserved Investor Fund are among the developments examined by Mike Lane and Zoe Andrews (Slaughter and May).

Most would probably agree that the current rate of tax on carried interest is too low. But whatever solution is adopted, a balance needs to be struck between complexity and ‘fairness’, writes Heather Self (Blick Rothenberg).

Kitty Swanson and Kirsten Hunt (Mayer Brown) consider some key issues regarding incentivising fund managers in the context of the ongoing debate surrounding carried interest.

Martin Shah (Simmons & Simmons) reviews the proposed reserved investor fund regime, while Melville Rodrigues (Apex Group) says why it is needed.