The Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) Regulatory Authority on Monday issued proposed rules governing collective investment / asset management schemes.  According to 1.3 of Consultation Paper 2010/05,  the proposed rules cover the  following:

• allowing certain authorized firms to operate non-QFC schemes;
• establishing a regime for QFC retail entities;
• allowing certain non-QFC schemes to be marketed to the retail sector;
• allowing the independent entity of a QFC scheme to also perform certain administrative functions for that scheme; and
• proposals to develop specialist scheme arrangement.