Safekeeping duties with regard to assets held in custody - AIFMD Provision: Difference between revisions

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This stands to reason, but it can lead to complexity: If the AIF feeds into a fund alongside other offshore feeders that aren’t AIFMD regulated then the {{aifmdprov|depositary}}’s obligations, strictly speaking, apply to the extent of any assets in the master fund attributable to the AIF. Of course, if they’re held, as you would expect them to be, in a single account in the master, that's not really practicable, but no Depositary will want to be liable for assets it doesn’t have to be responsible for, so expect efforts to run segregated accounts inside the master fund. daily rebalancing of the segregated portfolios will become quite a trick, for no good reason.
This stands to reason, but it can lead to complexity: If the AIF feeds into a fund alongside other offshore feeders that aren’t AIFMD regulated then the {{aifmdprov|depositary}}’s obligations, strictly speaking, apply to the extent of any assets in the master fund attributable to the AIF. Of course, if they’re held, as you would expect them to be, in a single account in the master, that's not really practicable, but no Depositary will want to be liable for assets it doesn’t have to be responsible for, so expect efforts to run segregated accounts inside the master fund. daily rebalancing of the segregated portfolios will become quite a trick, for no good reason.
Note: the obligations that apply are not the actual safekeeping ones of {{aifmdprov|21(8)}} — that unregulated fund may well have its own custodian, and may accept subscriptions from non-AIF feeders and other investors who do not require it to have a depositary — but of responsibility under the Delegated Regulation. So you have to accept responsibility for whichever schmuck the master fund appointed, and keep it honest.
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*{{tag|AIFMD}} Art. {{aifmdprov|21(8)}} — Depositary’s safe-keeping function
*Delegation of safekeeping function under Art. {{aifmdprov|21(11)}}