Rosie is a Director and has been with Funds-Axis for 10 years. She heads up the Relationships team and has a Law degree from the University of Aberdeen. She is an Associate of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment.
Pieter joined Funds-Axis in 2013 and manages the Regulatory Research team. He has a particular specialist focus on shareholder disclosures, as well as fund regulations including PRIIPs, UCITS and AIFMD. Pieter has a Law Degree, LPC Diploma and LLM in Globalisation and Law specialising in Corporate and Commercial Law.
Darren is the founder and Managing Director of Funds-Axis. He has 20 years financial services and fund management experience, including Big 4 Accountancy firms & leading depositary banks. He has specialist, industry-leading knowledge of the UCITS and AIFMD requirements.
Fund liquidity, like a mirage in the desert, can disappear in an instant if not monitored and managed correctly. Events throughout this year have brought fund liquidity to the forefront – as we approach the end of 2019, it is…
New rules and prescribed responsibilities on assessing value for money now apply to UK Authorised Fund Managers in respect of their management of authorised open-ended collective investment schemes. Whilst UK AFMs are currently busily engaged in the process of preparing…
With the FCA derivative use reporting deadline fast approaching, it’s the perfect time to discuss the reporting requirements and how Fund-Axis can assist you in making your filings. In 2016, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) made changes to its…
The FCA’s terminology is “Assessment of Value”, a shift from the earlier terminology of “Value for Money” which the FCA felt focused too much on the AFMs costs. Therefore, the focus from fund managers needs to be on the full…
In this, the second of our series on FCA Assessment of Value, we consider whether the FCA Assessment of Value process will lead to real change in product governance processes for the benefit of investors, or if firms will use…
Following on findings of weak price competition in the Asset Management Market Review, on 5 April 2018 the FCA published 18/8: “Asset Management Market Study remedies and changes to the handbook – Feedback and final rules to CP17/18.” The first…
Fund liquidity, like a mirage in the desert, can disappear in an instant…
New rules and prescribed responsibilities on assessing value for money now apply to…
With the FCA derivative use reporting deadline fast approaching, it’s the perfect time…
The FCA’s terminology is “Assessment of Value”, a shift from the earlier terminology…
In this, the second of our series on FCA Assessment of Value, we…
Following on findings of weak price competition in the Asset Management Market Review,…
Today we attended this year’s autumn careers fair at the University of Ulster…
Closet trackers, also known as closet indexing or index hugging, refers to the…
It was another busy week for us this week that included attending an…
We are delighted to announce that we have partnered with AlphaWeek which is…
Funds-Axis, a provider of investment compliance, risk and regulatory reporting solutions to the…
Our Director Rosie is spending 3 days in Luxembourg this week as we…
Funds-Axis are among three companies shortlisted for the One to Watch Award, part…
We are delighted to have been selected to take part in the UK…
This week we spent a few days in Paris meeting with existing clients…
As we approach Christmas and the end of 2018, we would like to…
Following 4 years of consultations and several minor revisions, the Monetary Authority of…
The Funds-Axis Fund RunNURS are pleased to have raised over £800 for @CashforKidsNI and @NIHospice.…
Funds-Axis have attended a number of recruitment fairs in the last few weeks.…
We were delighted to once again be sponsoring a finance course at Queen’s…
On Friday we held our first company town hall event at our Belfast…
We are delighted to announce the creation of 29 new jobs with the…
Datactics, an award-winning provider of data quality and fuzzy matching software, is today…
We believe it is important that staff continually receive training to ensure they…
Our fundraising efforts continued yesterday in glorious sunshine when our team of volunteers…
We are pleased to announce that we are taking part in the UK…
We had more staff carry out Prince2 training this week. Senior Risk and…
We had our own version of the Great British Bake Off in the…
We were proud to sponsor and exhibit at the International Fund Management Conference…
Our UCITS IV and AIFMD Derivatives and Risk Management training course was held…
We held our first training course of the year on UCITS Investment and…
At Funds-Axis we think it is important to provide university students with the…
Our team at Funds-Axis towers has been growing significantly over the past year…
We have been selected as one of only four companies to take part in…
We are keen for staff to undertake training that would be beneficial to…
At Funds-Axis we are keen to encourage young people to achieve the best…
We are heading to New York this week as part of Invest Northern…
Fund managers are having to deal with an increasing amount of regulation which…
We would like to thank all of our clients for your ongoing support…
We are pleased to announce that we have got our first Canadian client;…
