Malta: Fund Management/ REITs

Ganado Meets returns with a new series exploring Malta's sophisticated funds industry ecosystem. This introduction episode delves into fund administration, legal innovation, tokenisation, digitalisation, private equity, family offices, and digital-asset valuation, showcasing the depth of services that have developed over decades in Malta's financial sector.

Malta has established its first Notified Professional Investor Fund under the Single Family Office Exempt Manager Framework, offering family offices a proportionate regulatory pathway that balances efficient wealth structuring with appropriate oversight. The framework provides an alternative to institutional fund manager requirements, enabling single family offices to manage private wealth through NPIFs with governance structures suited to their scale and operations.

Andrew Caruana Scicluna hosts Riccardo Conti of Fume and Stephen Gauci Baluci of CC Fund Services Limited to examine whether fund tokenisation delivers on its promises of liquidity and efficiency, or simply redistributes existing risks. The discussion explores how atomic settlement, fractional ownership, and smart contracts may reshape the roles of transfer agents, fund administrators, and settlement teams in daily operations.

Over the past 10 years, fund administration has gone through a fundamental transformation, one that is increasingly difficult not to overlook.

For Audentia Capital, the secret to their success is to operate with the mindset of a boutique firm, CEO and founder Alberto Llaneza Martin explains.

Malta's recent revamp of its Shariah-compliant investment funds framework is a strategic move to attract investors and asset managers from the Middle East and North Africa (‘MENA')...

Further to the public statement issued on 14 December 2023, ESMA has issued a final report outlining the guidelines in relation to fund names which utilise ESG or sustainability...

In recent years, Malta has rapidly evolved into a leading hub for fund management and related financial services.

Further to the public statement issued on 14 December 2023, ESMA has issued a final report outlining the guidelines in relation to fund names which utilise ESG or sustainability-related terms (the "Guidelines").