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The Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive – An Overview

1 June 2012

The Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (the “AIFMD”) is a European directive which entered into force on 21 July 2011. The AIFMD seeks to create a harmonised framework for regulating risks that alternative investment fund managers (“AIFMs”) pose to investors and to financial stability and to provide a European internal market for AIFM.

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