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SFA identifies key issues on its 20th anniversary

  • Investment Europe
  • 01 March 2012
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2012 marks the 20th anniversary of the Swiss Funds Association, and a year which it has earmarked for focusing on several key industry issues.

2012 marks the 20th anniversary of the Swiss Funds Association, and a year which it has earmarked for focusing on several key industry issues.

Following a challenging 2011 for asset managers, the SFA said it would be concentrating on:

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   – Implementing partial revision of the CISA (law and ordinances)

   – Developing Switzerland as a high-quality asset management location and ensuring opinion leadership in this regard

   – Stepping up lobbying on regulatory matters

   – Expanding the SFA’s function as a platform for its members and the general public.

There were two key areas of activity for the SFA in Switzerland in 2011 with the partial revision of the Collective Investment Schemes Act (CISA) and the setting up of the Swiss Key Investor Information Document (KIID). The SFA said it supports in principle the primary objectives of the partial revision of the CISA.

In the case of the Swiss KIID, the guidelines drawn up by the SFA have been recognized as a minimum standard by local financial regulator FINMA.

As regards international matters, the focus was on the Directives on Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFM) and Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (Ucits) as well as the Foreign Account Tax Act (FATCA).

 New SFA members 2011

Active members Associate members
Adveq Management Ltd, Zurich BCCC Attorneys-At-Law, Geneva
Argos Investment Managers SA, Geneva Diamos Suisse Inc., Zurich
Barclays Capital Fund Solutions, Zurich DJE Finanz AG, Zurich
Commerzbank AG, Frankfurt am Main,
Zurich Branch
Neue Aargauer Bank AG, Brugg
Dreyfus Sons & Co Ltd, Banquiers Basel Morningstar Switzerland GmbH, Zurich
 Skagen Funds AS, Stavanger, Norway Primecoach GmbH, Lachen
swiss-hedge Capital AG, Zurich Princeton Financial Systems, Zurich
VERIT Investment Management AG, Zurich SimCorp Schweiz AG, Zurich
  Solutions Avocats, Nyon.

 

As of the end of 2011, there were 7,461 collective investment schemes authorized for public sale in Switzerland (2010: 7,191), the SFA said. Of these 1,403 were products under Swiss law (2010: 1,400) and 6,058 foreign-law products (5,791). The volume of assets placed in funds authorized by FINMA stood at CHF621bn, compared with CHF641bn in 2010.

“The financial markets were beset with volatility last year. Investors were correspondingly unsettled in their response to this, and invested their money only very tentatively. However, the Swiss fund and asset management sector posted a stable showing and real growth opportunities – and this is what we are committed to ensuring. In light of the redimensioning of investment banking and offshore private banking, the standing of our sector is set to increase further,” said Matthäus Den Otter, CEO of the SFA.

 

 

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