Alternative investment fund
AIFMD Anatomy™
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An Alternative Investment Fund, a concept of great interest and relevance to those who manage alternative investments and want anything to do with the EU, for this is a key concept of creation of the AIFMD, a fledgling anatomy for which you might find here: AIFMD Anatomy.
Compare and contrast UCITS funds which are retail targeted investment funds. The regulations are in some ways converging, but there are still a lot of qualitative differences in the types of risks that an AIF can take that a UCITS cannot.