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  • In this issue, we have included: 
     

    Top Headlines
    •            Base Erosion And Profit Shifting (BEPS): Key considerations
      for real estate funds
    •            The Paris Agreement: Moving from climate conscious to climate
      compliance. What does this mean for Pension Fund investors?
    Australia
    •            New Australian foreign investment regime impacts investors in
      real estate
    China
    •            PRC update on VAT for real estate
    •            AMAC publishes draft rules on private fund offering
      activities and draft guidelines for private fund contracts
    Hong Kong
    •            Strengthening Hong Kong’s role as an asset management
      centre – the FSDC’s recommendations
    • Bill to introduce open-ended fund company structure in
      Hong Kong gazetted
    •   Hong Kong Inland Revenue Department’s approach to
      residence certificates
    •  SFC seeks to abolish non-reliance clauses with new suitability
      requirement
    India
    • Draft guidelines on determining tax residency
    Japan
     •      Use of partnerships to invest abroad
    Singapore
    •    New Luxembourg-Singapore agreement for the avoidance
      of double taxation
    • MAS updates guidelines on licensing, registration and conduct
      of business for fund management companies
    AIFMD
    •   AIFMD guide for Asian fund managers marketing non-EU AIFs
      in the EU
    •   Extending the AIFMD marketing passport to non-EU AIFMs


    Lastly, we would like to thank our working group who helped putting together the Newsletter.

    For details of this working group, please click here

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