ALFI, the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry, has been engaged in the Capital Markets Union initiative from the outset and has actively responded to the European Commission's 2016 consultation on barriers to the cross-border distribution of investment funds. ALFI, as Europe's largest investment fund hub, with a wide and long standing experience in cross-border distribution, acknowledges the intention and efforts of the European Commission in its recently published proposal amending Directive 2009/65/EC and Directive 2011/61/EU to remove barriers to cross-border distribution of collective investment funds while ensuring the requirement for a high level of investor protection.
ALFI however, takes the view that the Proposal could have been given greater scope and...
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