UCITS Management Companies
A UCITS Management Company is a company whose regular business is collective portfolio management of UCITS funds.
A UCITS Management Company is a company authorised under the European Communities (Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities) Regulations 2003, as amended (“the Regulations”) to engage in the management of UCITS and other collective investment schemes in the form of either unit trusts, common contractual funds or investment companies or any combination thereof.
Self-Managed Investment Companies
A Self-Managed Investment Company (SMIC) is an authorised UCITS investment company which has not appointed a management company and which complies with applicable provisions set down in the Regulations in relation to capital requirements and organisational structure.
A complete list of UCITS Management companies authorised to conduct business in Ireland can be accessed from the Registers section of the website.