Funds & IFMs: Governance fundamentals

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Course outline

This seminar will allow members of Board of Directors to identify the best governance practices for funds and to identify and manage conflicts of interest. This interactive seminar includes theoretical basics, presentation on the regulatory novelties by professionals and exchange between participants through the resolution of a specific corporate case.

Course highlights

Despite the ever-increasing focus on corporate governance matters, members of boards of directors of companies and collective investment schemes (CIS) still tend to underestimate the extent of their legal, regulatory and financial responsibilities.

  • What are the key features of investment fund governance?

  • What are the impacts of the new directives and circulars?

  • What are the best governance practices for CIS?

  • What are the roles of the service providers of the CIS

  • What are the responsibilities of fund directors, managers and conducting officers?

  • How to assess and mitigate liability of directors?

  • How to deal with conflicts of interest?

The purpose of this seminar will be to comment on these key issues, to consider possible lines of actions and to offer solutions.

Benefits of the programme

This interactive seminar includes theoretical basics, representations by professionals and exchange between participants through the resolution of a specific corporate business case.

The presentations will deal with the following topics:

  • Roles and responsibilities of directors and managers 

  • Overview of Luxembourg company law and fund structures for directors and managers 

  • Identification and management of conflicts of interests 

  • Impact of the European plan of action of corporate governance on the exercise of directors’ duties 

  • Recent developments in regulations and best practice

  • Studies of governance practices of management and investment companies of CIS

  • Preparation and holding of boards of directors’ meetings 

  • The particular case of managers responsible for UCITS and AIF Funds: organisation and good practice 

  • The role of service providers to CIS and investment management companies

  • Liability management for directors and managers 

  • Legislative coverage and insurance 

  • The ALFI Code of Conduct

Target audience

A group of about 20 persons representing:

  • Fund and investment management companies’ directors (UCITS, SIF, SICAR, RAIF,...), independent or in employment contracts

  • Managers responsible for funds and investment companies with management and/or supervisory responsibilities

  • Executives and managers of management companies and/or funds

  • Executives and managers (legal, domiciliation and compliance services) of service providers, e.g. depository banks, administrative and domiciliary agents

  • Lawyers specialising in investment funds

  • Auditors specialising in investment funds

  • Other professionals involved in this field (insurance, infrastructure, risk management, etc.)

Date & Time

30/09/2024 - 08:45
03/10/2024 - 12:30

Venue

INNSiDE by Meliá Luxembourg

CPD hours

28.0 hours

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Member fee : 2.795,00€ (+ VAT 3%)

Non-member fee: 4.300,00€ (+ VAT 3%)

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Speakers

Adrian ALDINGER

Partner

Antonis ANASTASIOU

Head of Corporate SPV & Regulatory Services

Thibaut BOULANGÉ 

Partner - Head of Indirect Tax

Nicolas BOUVERET 

Partner

Keith BURMAN 

Non-Executive Director

Jean-Christophe CABILIN   

KPMG

Michael DELANO 

Partner

Raphaël  DOCQUIER 

Non-Executive Director / Independent CoSec

Désirée DOENGES

Senior Vice President Legal

Sophie DUPIN

Partner

Stéphanie DUVAL-SORGIUS

Managing Director, Investment Accounting

Carine FEIPEL

Independent Director

Oliver  HOOR 

Partner

Darren JUDGE

Director & Conducting Officer

Henry KELLY

Non-Executive Director

Mireille KIFFER

Non-Executive Director

Sebastian KLEIN

Macquarie Group

Xavier LUCAS

Conducting Officer

Andrea MONTRESORI

Partner

Jesus OROZCO 

Partner

Yann POWER

Non-Executive Director, Governance & Compliance Coach

Michael RABINOWICZ

Partner & General Counsel

Jan Stig RASMUSSEN

Non-Executive Director

Philippe RINGARD

Managing Director 

Bronwyn SALVAT-WINTER

Non-Executive Director

Josiane SCHROEDER

Counsel

Anil SINGH

Managing Director

Daniel TRODD

Managing Director

Enrico TURCHI

Managing Director, Deputy CEO and Conducting Officer

Maxime VANDEMAELE

Director & Conducting Officer

Sascha VOIGT

Audit & Assurance Partner

Philipp von RESTORFF

CEO

Jérôme WIGNY

Partner

Agenda and schedule

Venue

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INNSiDE by Meliá Luxembourg 
12, Rue Henri M. Schnadt 
L-2530 Gasperich - Luxembourg

Contact the organiser
Institut Luxembourgeois des Administrateurs
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