AIMA

AIMA’s Government and Regulatory Affairs Department aims to represent the voice of the hedge fund industry to policy makers, legislators and regulatory authorities around the world.  The team, drawing on the expertise and diversity of AIMA’s membership, engages proactively and constructively in shaping the global financial markets reform debate. We aim to promote the best interests of the industry and to enhance understanding of alternative investments. AIMA’s Government and Regulatory Affairs Department invests its time in direct contact and advocacy with key governments and authorities, responding to proposed legislation and consultations. We regularly host events and briefing sessions aimed specifically at policymakers to ensure that AIMA's voice is heard.

We also strive to keep members abreast of relevant developments which might affect their business. We do this by various means, including by:

• summarising important legislation and regulatory developments from across the world;
• producing guidance notes for our members on a variety of topics;
• displaying member firms’ client alerts on specific hot topics; and 
• providing links to the more important open consultations on matters relating to hedge funds.

AIMA seeks to maintain good relations with regulatory, fiscal and government authorities around the world and now has over 900 regulatory and policy contacts at more than 200 different authorities, to whom all AIMA educational material, responses, summaries and Guidance Notes are sent free of charge.

The Department is headed by Jiri Krol and is composed of three teams which are dedicated to Asset Management, Markets Regulation and Tax Affairs.