Funds Investing

MARKETING

The extent to which funds can be marketed within a state or country or across state or national borders varies from country to country and depends on local laws and the nature of any federation or other affiliation which determines where the ultimate authority lies.

Most jurisdictions permit the marketing of mutual funds, but the only funds they will allow to be marketed freely are those they have authorised or which have been authorised by a federated or affiliated jurisdiction as eligible for marketing or promotion to the general public and registered as such. The marketing of other funds or securities will be either prohibited or restricted to promotion to professional or institutional investors only. Read the rest of this entry »

In most countries marketing of mutual funds to the general public is permitted, but only of funds that have been authorised or recognised by the jurisdiction, or by a federated or affiliated jurisdiction. Even so, it may be possible to promote unauthorised funds to professional and institutional investors, or to people no longer living in the country /expatriates/.

CROSS-BORDER/ INTERNATIONAL MARKETING

The advent of the Internet has posed as much of a challenge to regulators as it has provided opportunities to fund management companies and their selling agents; but restraints on international marketing include: Read the rest of this entry »