AIMA: Steven Maijoor speaks about ESMA priorities in 2018
21 November 2017
The Chairman of the European Securities and Markets Authority identified key principle workstreams for ESMA for 2018 and discussed ESMA's measures regarding Brexit.
The three principle are:
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Continuing the current data collection exercise regarding costs and charges of retail funds and extending this exercise to all other types of products, including EU AIFs;
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Performing further work on closet indexing given the likelihood of these funds to charge “unduly high fees” while “failing to deliver the service to which they committed themselves in their offering documents”; and
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Performing further supervisory convergence work on performance fees.
Mr Maaijor also announced that ESMA intends to produce further guidance for UCITS and AIFs stress tests, following FSB and ESRB recommendations. With regard to the recent ESMA opinions regarding continental relocation of UK firms in connection with Brexit, Mr Maaijor reaffirmed ESMA’s view that these were consistent with the level 1 and level 2 texts, as it is “precisely in the nature of Level 3 guidance to take the existing framework and elaborate on it, in order to give a clearer picture of what firms are expected to do in order to comply.”
He further explained that the opinions are not questioning the principle of delegation, but rather the way it is implemented, in terms of substance and oversight of non-EU branches.
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