Ensure a Level Playing Field for ELTIFs to Take Off

With merely 22 active funds, of which just a handful are marketed and distributed to individual, non-professional (“retail”) investors, the EU Long-Term Investment Funds (ELTIF) market is still struggling to develop more than five years after its launch. The uptake of ELTIFs by investors is hampered by similar but more attractive domestic labels, a lack of public promotion, a shortage of “affluent” investors and more stringent investment rules compared to other funds of the same type.

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