Tobias Moroni

Managing Director
Institutional Investment Partners

About the author

Tobias Moroni ist Managing Director Fund Platform in der Institutional Investment Group. Davor war Tobias Moroni bei Hauck & Aufhäuser, zuletzt als Mitglied des erweiterten Vorstands (Executive Board) für das Kerngeschäftsfeld Asset Servicing in Deutschland & Luxemburg und zuvor Leiter der rechtlichen Einheit der Depotbank von Sal. Oppenheim.

tobias.moroni@2ip.de

About the company

Institutional Investment Partners (2IP) bündelt innerhalb der Institutional Investment Group (2IG) relevante Leistungen für institutionelle Anleger mit dem ausschließlichen Zweck, gerade im Zusammenspiel mit den Immobilien- und Infrastruktur-Managern den maximalen Mehrwert im Mandat auszuschöpfen.

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Author's posts

Energy transition in open-ended real estate funds – classification of the innovations in the Economic Development Act (StoFöG)

Open-ended real estate funds have been encountering legal grey areas in the integration of renewable energies for years. With the new Location Promotion Act (StoFöG), the legislator wants to eliminate these uncertainties.

Fund Risk Limitation Act: Conflict of Interest Directive for Service and Master AIFMs – and the interests of investors are already protected?

In future, investment management companies (KVG) that set up or manage funds on the initiative of third parties will have to explain to BaFin in detail how they identify, prevent, manage and disclose conflicts of interest.

Institutions for Occupational Pensions and Alternative Investments: Impact of EIOPA’s Technical Input of 8 September on the Development of this Asset Class

The aim is to overcome the fragmented internal market for occupational pensions and to channel the capital of pension institutions more towards long-term investments such as private equity, infrastructure, private debt and real estate.

Liquidity – protective shield in the storm – or just a promise of good weather?

With a whole toolbox of liquidity management tools (LMTs), the regulation aims to create more stability for open-ended investment funds in the future. But are they really a protective shield in the crisis – or in the end just a promise of good weather?

ELTIF vs. LTAF – Brussels builds motorways with a forest of signs, London lets the Jaguar roll in the roundabout

The sales apparatus in Europe has enthusiastically pounced on the ELTIF 2.0. This makes it all the more interesting to look over the fence: With the LTAF, London is showing that retail investors can organise access to illiquid investments in a completely different way.

Fund Risk Limitation Act: Government draft promotes system convergence from asset management companies to credit institutions

While the fund industry is taking significant improvements in product law as a cause for celebration, regulation for asset management companies (KVGs) continues to tighten – and is moving them ever deeper into the orbit of the banking world.

The electronic age for fund units has begun

Electronic fund units have been a topic in the fund industry for some time, although interest in them is only just beginning to awaken. Many isolated pilot projects in the area of so-called crypto fund shares can currently be observed.

Regulatory Base

Proposals of the EU Commission for amended implementing provisions of the Solvency II Directive: What is included for ELTIFs and other “Lower Risk” funds as preferential “Long-Term Equity Investments”

Following the EIOPA drafts published on 10 July 2025, the EU Commission has now also submitted its proposals for amended Level II implementing provisions to the Solvency II Directive for consultation on 17 July 2025.

Insurance companies: Clarity on the use of the infrastructure quota under the Investment Regulation

In its new FAQ of 14 July on the collective ruling of 19.3.2025, BaFin has clarified how insurance companies subject to the Investment Ordinance (AnlV) can allocate infrastructure investments to the new infrastructure quota as part of their reporting.

Tenant electricity from photovoltaics: Answers to readers’ questions

After the publication of the column "Tenant electricity from photovoltaics: possibilities and models from the point of view of the property owner", the author received a lot of feedback – especially from institutional investors.

Call from Brüssel

Call from Brussels – Please pick up!

With the "Call for Evidence for an Impact Assessment", the European Commission has called for participation in constructive criticism of the SFDR. Under scrutiny: Articles 8 and 9, the disclosure requirements and the famous principal adverse impacts.

ELTIFs als verbindendes Element in Europa

ELTIF: European Success Stories – Also for Germany?

"The knot has burst," states the introduction to the broad-based study on the ELTIF market by the analysis firm Scope. In fact, ELTIFs have become the trendsetter of recent years.

Ekklesia

Co-determination of investors in special funds in danger?

The draft of the BaFin leaflet on the influence of investors on investments and divestments of investment funds provides an opportunity to sharpen understanding of the traditional role-playing game with a long history of investors and capital management companies.

Nudging

ESG: Have we been “nudged”?

Started with enthusiasm and now at a dead end? ESG is still the right thing to do – whereby it depends on the value-creating implementation and goal with the fund strategy.