The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission published its quarterly statistics bulletin for the third quarter of 2025, reporting that it supervised 312 Management Companies and Undertakings of Collective Investments and that total assets under management rose by 7.5% quarter on quarter to EUR 11.4bn. The supervised population was down from 323 in the same period of the previous year, while the net asset value of UCIs managed by Management Companies stood at EUR 10.1bn. The 312 entities comprised 217 externally managed UCIs, 29 internally managed UCIs and 66 external fund managers, with Management Companies including 46 alternative investment fund managers (AIFMs), 44 sub-threshold AIFMs, two UCITS management companies and three dual-licensed entities. AUM was primarily attributable to AIFM-managed assets (63%), followed by dual AIFM and UCITS management companies (17%), UCITS management companies (10%), sub-threshold AIFMs (9%) and regulated UCIs managed by foreign fund managers (1%). UCITS AUM was invested mainly in transferable securities (85.8%), with 10.9% in UCITS and other UCIs and 3.2% in bank deposits; for AIFs, AIFLNPs and RAIFs, 30.7% of AUM was in private equity, 17% in real estate, 14.5% in hedge funds, 9.7% in funds of funds and 28.1% in “Other”. Of total AUM, 69.7% was held by 205 Cyprus-domiciled UCIs, and 165 of 230 UCIs with operations invested in Cyprus partially or entirely for over EUR 2.8bn (24.8% of total AUM), mainly in private equity (71.1%) and real estate (12.8%); the bulletin also reports investor composition and sector exposures including shipping (EUR 581.8m), energy (EUR 471.6m), fintech (EUR 106.9m) and sustainable investments (EUR 97.9m).

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