Translation of "Risque d'investissement " (French → English) :

(b) a description of the investment strategy and objectives of the qualifying venture capital fund, including a description of the types of the qualifying portfolio undertakings and non-qualifying investments which the qualifying venture capital fund may make, the techniques it may employ, and any applicable investment restrictions;

(27) The Commission should be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, in order to determine the procedures under which AIFM managing portfolios of AIF whose assets under management do not exceed the threshold set out in this Directive may exercise their right to be treated as AIFM covered by this Directive. These delegated acts may also specify the criteria to be used by competent authorities to assess whether AIFM comply with their obligations as regards their conduct of business, the type of conflicts of interests AIFM have to identify, as well as the reasonable steps AIFM are expected to take in terms of internal and organizational procedures in order to ide ...[+++]ntify, prevent, manage and disclose conflicts of interest. They may specify the risk management requirements to be employed by AIFM as a function of the risks which the AIFM incurs on behalf of the AIF that it manages as well as any arrangements needed to enable AIFM to manage the particular risks associated with short selling transactions, including any relevant restrictions that might be needed to protect the AIF from undue risk exposures. They may specify the liquidity management requirements of this Directive and in particular the minimum liquidity requirements for AIF, they may specify the requirements that originators of securitisation instruments have to meet in order for an AIFM to be allowed to invest in such instruments issued after 1 January 2011. They may as well specify the requirements that AIFM have to comply with when investing in such securitisation instruments. They may specify the criteria under which a valuator can be considered independent in the meaning of this Directive. They may specify the conditions under which the delegation of AIFM functions should be approved and the conditions under which the manager could no longer be considered to be the manager of the AIF in case of excessive delegation. They may s ...

In this respect, the Commission should be able to adopt measures determining the procedures under which AIFM managing portfolios of AIF whose assets under management do not exceed the threshold set out in this Directive may exercise their right to be treated as AIFM covered by this Directive. These measures are also designed to specify the criteria to be used by competent authorities to assess whether AIFM comply with their obligations as regards their conduct of business, the type of conflicts of interests AIFM have to identify, as well as the reasonable steps AIFM are expected to take in terms of internal and organizational procedures in order to identify, prevent, manage and disclose conflicts of interest. They are designed to sp ...[+++]ecify the risk management requirements to be employed by AIFM as a function of the risks which the AIFM incurs on behalf of the AIF that it manages as well as any arrangements needed to enable AIFM to manage the particular risks associated with short selling transactions, including any relevant restrictions that might be needed to protect the AIF from undue risk exposures. They are designed to specify the liquidity management requirements of this Directive and in particular the minimum liquidity requirements for AIF. They are designed to specify the requirements that originators of securitisation instruments have to meet in order for an AIFM to be allowed to invest in such instruments issued after 1 January 2011. They are as well designed to specify the requirements that AIFM have to comply with when investing in such securitisation instruments. They are designed to specify the criteria under which a valuator can be considered independent in the meaning of this Directive. They are designed to specify the conditions under which the delegation of AIFM functions should be approved and the conditions under which the manager could no longer be considered to be the manager of the AIF in case of excessive delegation. They are designed to specify ...

EUROPA - EU law and publications - EUR-Lex - EUR-Lex - 32006L0049 - EN - Directive 2006/49/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2006 on the capital adequacy of investment firms and credit institutions (recast) - DIRECTIVE - OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL // CALCULATING CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS FOR POSITION RISK // CALCULATING CAPITAL REQUIREMETNS FOR SETTLEMENT AND COUNTERPARTY CREDIT RISK // CALCULATING CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS FOR FOREIGN-EXCHANGE RISK // CALCULATING CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS FOR COMMODITIES RISK // USE OF INTERNAL MODELS TO CALCULATE CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS // CALCULATING CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS FOR ...[+++] LARGE EXPOSURES // TRADING // REPEALED DIRECTIVES // CORRELATION TABLE

For the purposes of the calculation of minimum capital requirements for counterparty risk under this Directive, and for the calculation of minimum capital requirements for credit risk under Directive 2006/48/EC, and without prejudice to the provisions of Part 2, point 6 of Annex III to that Directive, exposures to recognised third-country investment firms and exposures to recognised clearing houses and exchanges shall be treated as exposures to institutions.

G. whereas venture capital investment in Europe has tripled between 1998 and 2000, while investment in early-stage venture capital has even increased four times over; whereas nevertheless Europe's venture capital industry is still lagging far behind the US relative to its share of the global economy and even in the most advanced EU member states a solid venture capital market is far from being established;