Show distribution of European alternative investment funds or special funds of a domestic capital management company to semi-professional or professional investors in Germany
Source: BUS Rheinland-PfalzAlternative investment funds (AIFs) are collective investment undertakings that collect capital from a number of investors in order to allocate it to the benefit of those investors in accordance with a defined investment strategy. These undertakings are
- not an operationally active company outside the financial sector, and
- not undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities (UCITS).
If domestic AIFs are marketed only to professional or semi-professional investors, they are referred to as special AIFs.
If an AIF is subject to the law of another member state of the European Union or another contracting state to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, it is referred to as an EU AIF.
If you, as a domestic AIF management company, wish to market an EU AIF or a special AIF to professional or semi-professional investors in Germany, you must notify the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) in advance.