Financial Planning Tips for the Sandwich Generation with Sherry Finkel Murphy
Digital Planning Podcast Episode: Planning for Your Digital Legacy
[Podcast] Unlocking the Potential of Alternative Markets with HighVista Strategies’ Raphi Schorr
Family Owned Real Estate: Managing Lack of Planning in Family Business Transitions
Family Owned Real Estate: Impacts of the Current Real Estate Market on Transition Planning
Family Owned Real Estate: Avoiding Pitfalls When Transitioning Family Real Estate
Family Owned Real Estate: Common Real Estate & Asset Management Issues
[Podcast] Scoping Out Secondaries with Portfolio Advisors' Liz Campbell
John Wick - What You Need To Know about the Corporate Transparency Act
Family Owned Real Estate: Legal Challenges & Opportunities
Once Removed Episode 24: Expressing Goals and Intent for the Trust
Once Removed Episode 23: Naming Guardians for Minor Children
Once Removed Episode 20: Helping a Beneficiary Purchase a Home
Digital Planning Podcast Episode: Planning for Influencers
Life After Love Gone Wrong Podcast: Season 3, Episode 6 - Reshaping Your Legacy: Estate Planning After Your Divorce
Unraveling the Crypto Code: California's New DFAL Explained – The Crypto Exchange Podcast
A Primer On Trusts - A Podcast with Janathan Allen
Digital Planning Podcast Episode: Exploring DAOs
Current Landscape of Cryptocurrency Regulation and Enforcement - The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Current Landscape of Cryptocurrency Regulation and Enforcement - The Consumer Finance Podcast
LEVEL-SETTING - The banking industry finds itself in the early stages of a transformation. Existing balance sheets have been shaped by more than a decade of low interest rates that fueled asset appreciation, muted...more
Das Inkrafttreten des Zukunftsfinanzierungsgesetzes markierte bereits 2023 die Geburtsstunde der „Kryptofonds“ in Deutschland, indem die unmittelbare Anlage in Kryptowerte auch für Publikumsfonds (i.S.d. §§ 221 bzw. 261 KAGB)...more
Key Points - - The IAIS has issued a detailed analysis of the structural shifts in the life insurance sector related to the increasing allocation to alternative assets and prevalence of asset-intensive reinsurance...more
Private credit, or funding provided by non-bank lenders, has expanded significantly, becoming a $1.7 trillion global industry. Many market participants anticipate continued growth, with conservative estimates projecting an...more
Jersey and Guernsey have long been recognised as leading international investment hubs, offering asset managers a compelling mix of professional and lifestyle advantages....more
Our Global Fund Finance practice recently sponsored and attended the 2025 Global Fund Finance Symposium. Hosted annually by the Fund Finance Association, these conferences bring together key players in the fund finance...more
The 2025 Fund Finance conference in Miami convened industry leaders, innovators, and experts to explore the latest trends and challenges in the rapidly evolving world of fund finance. Set against the backdrop of Miami's...more
In the last 12 months, we have seen private debt markets take off over other strategies. In particular, there are now more creative ways of bringing in new types of investors to this asset class, including insurers, pension...more
A record more than 2,500 industry players attended the 14th annual Global Fund Finance Symposium that wrapped up at the Fontainebleau in Miami Beach. As has been the trend in recent years, there was a lot to discuss (beyond...more
The UK government's Department for Culture, Media and Sport has published the Dormant Assets Parliamentary Review for the period from February 2022 to February 2025 in accordance with the Dormant Assets Act 2022. The review...more
The year 2024 was one of innovation and growth for the fund finance market. In October, Ares published its fund finance whitepaper, in which it estimated the global fund finance market to already be $1.2 trillion and growing...more
While PC software programs are a practical improvement over the trustee’s hard-copy ledger book, when it comes to keeping track of trust income and principal these programs still require serious clerical monitoring on the...more
The Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) recently released its updated ILPA reporting template (Reporting Template) and a new ILPA performance template (Performance Template), together with corresponding...more
Establishes a sovereign wealth fund to "promote fiscal sustainability, lessen the burden of taxes on American families and small businesses, establish economic security for future generations, and promote United States...more
As regular Fund Finance Friday readers know, articles in this newsletter often explore emerging trends in fund finance and fund finance-adjacent areas, and in this article, we will look at single-asset back-leverage (“SABL”)...more
HM Treasury has announced that the Chancellor will increase engagement with financial services leaders to strengthen plans to grow the economy. Over the coming months, the Chancellor plans to host a series of Industry Forums...more
Introduction - NAV facilities operate by taking a portfolio of assets owned by a borrower and selecting which assets within that portfolio a lender is willing to lend against. This pool of approved assets becomes the...more
A five-year legal dispute between heirs of the renowned artist Thomas Hart Benton and the trust department that administered and managed the Benton Trust produced a significant ruling last month in Jackson County, Missouri...more
In an increasingly upbeat M&A market, use cases could grow for this popular and dynamic fund finance product. Net asset value (NAV) financing became firmly established as a core fund financing tool in the last few years as...more
In our first episode of 2025, we’re excited to speak with Robert Stark, CEO of Nomura Capital Management. During our discussion, we discuss the competitive DCA ranges and challenges of building a private credit platform...more
Following the turn of the new year, our UK Regulatory specialists have examined the key regulatory developments in 2025 impacting a range of UK and European firms within the financial services sector. The key dates have been...more
The following summarizes recent legal developments of note affecting the mutual fund/investment management industry. On October 21, 2024, the SEC Division of Examinations (“EXAMS”) published its annual Examination Priorities...more
As we discussed in our white paper “ESG and Public Pension Investing in 2023: A Year-to-Date Recap and Analysis”, there was a surge in legislative activity in 2023 among red states curtailing the use of environmental, social...more
The ELTIF-RTS, the final piece of the puzzle for the ELTIF framework, have been published in the Official Journal on October 25, 2024 and entered into force on October 26, 2024. This marks the end of a long and complex...more
On 12 September 2024, the UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) published the second of two nearly final policy statements (PS9/24) on the implementation of revisions to the Basel 3 standards, known in the UK as Basel 3.1....more