UK tax transparent funds: Five years on from the first launch

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UK tax transparent funds: Five years on from the first launch

July 10 2019
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Five years after the launch of the first UK authorised contractual scheme (ACS) – also known as the UK tax transparent fund (UK TTF) – in 2014, there are 22 UK TTFs in the market, with 172 sub-funds amounting to billions of assets under management. Mariano Giralt, Christopher Mitchell and Gildine Cassou look at the scheme’s impact.

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