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Financial Services (Investment Business (Qualifying Segregated Managed Accounts - Exemption)) (Jersey) Order 2014

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A decision made on 25 November 2014:

Decision Reference: MD-C-2014-0186

Decision Summary Title :

Financial Services (Investment Business (Qualifying Segregated Managed Accounts – Exemption)) (Jersey) Order 201-

Date of Decision Summary:

21 November 2014

Decision Summary Author:

 

Financial Services Unit

Decision Summary:

Public or Exempt?

(State clauses from Code of Practice booklet)

Public

Type of Report:

Oral or Written?

Written

Person Giving

Oral Report:

 

Written Report

Title :

Financial Services (Investment Business (Qualifying Segregated Managed Accounts – Exemption)) (Jersey) Order 201-

Date of Written Report:

21 November 2014

Written Report Author:

Financial Services Unit

Written Report :

Public or Exempt?

(State clauses from Code of Practice booklet)

Public

Subject:

Making of the draft Financial Services (Investment Business (Qualifying Segregated Managed Accounts – Exemption)) (Jersey) Order 201-.

Decision(s):

The Chief Minister made the Financial Services (Investment Business (Qualifying Segregated Managed Accounts – Exemption)) (Jersey) Order 201- (the “draft Order”).

Reason(s) for Decision:

Pursuant to the Financial Services (Jersey) Law 1998, as amended (“FS(J)L”) parties are required to be licensed/registered by the Financial Services Commission (the “Commission”) in order to conduct financial services business, of which there are several distinct types as referred to in Article 2(1) of FS(J)L.  In particular, the undertaking of segregated managed account work requires an operator to be licensed/registered to conduct investment business (“IB”) pursuant to Article 2(2) of FS(J)L.

 

The draft Order exempts an operator of a qualifying segregated managed account from the requirement to be IB-licensed in respect of discretionary investment management (as set out in Article 2(2) of FS(J)L), subject to satisfaction of carefully prescribed provisions, including that the operator must be a hedge fund manager that is authorised to conduct fund services business under FS(J)L as either a manager, investment manager, trustee or general partner.  The draft Order preserves certain supervision and enforcement powers under FS(J)L in respect of the given activity. 

 

The policy as detailed in the draft Order has been subject to consultation with the industry by the Commission.  The responses received demonstrate a strong degree of support for the policy contained in the draft Order. The majority of questions posed in the consultation received unanimous consent. 

 

The Jersey Financial Services Commission has provided its recommendation to the Minister that the draft Order be made.

 

Resource Implications:

 

There are no resource implications for the States of Jersey as a result of this decision. 

 

Action required:

 

That the Minister sign and seal the draft Order and it be returned to the States Greffe for immediate publication. The Greffier of the States to be requested to arrange for the making of the Order to be notified to the States.

Signature:

 

 

 

 

Senator I. J. Gorst

Position:

 

 

 

 

Chief Minister

Date Signed:

 

 

Date of Decision (If different from Date Signed):

 

 

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