IDC Webinar: MiFID II Investment Research Requirements: An Overview for Fund Directors

The EU Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II), which will take effect on January 3, 2018, includes new requirements that will affect how asset managers and their clients, including registered funds, pay for investment research. This webinar provided an overview of the MiFID II investment research provisions and their implications for global fund managers, as well as a discussion of matters that may come before boards in connection with MiFID II compliance.

Highlights

The webinar covered the following:

• MiFID II investment research provisions requiring unbundling of execution and research
• extraterritorial reach of the requirements
• potential matters coming before boards in connection with compliance

Featured Speakers

ANNETTE CAPRETTA, Moderator
Deputy Managing Director
Independent Directors Council

DARRELL BRAMAN
Vice President and Managing Counsel
T. Rowe Price and Associates, Inc.

JENNIFER CHOI
Associate General Counsel
Investment Company Institute

DOUGLAS DICK
Partner
Dechert LLP

EVA MYKOLENKO
Associate Chief Counsel
ICI Global

Materials

• Archive recording
• Slides (pdf)

This webinar was closed to the media and regulators.