The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission released its quarterly statistics bulletin for the first quarter of 2025 for the collective investments sector, reporting 322 supervised management companies and undertakings of collective investments and total assets under management (AUM) of EUR 10.7 billion. The supervised population fell from 328 a year earlier, while AUM increased by 6.64% compared with the fourth quarter of 2024; the net asset value of UCIs managed by management companies reached EUR 9.9 billion. The 322 entities comprise 223 externally managed UCIs, 30 internally managed UCIs and 69 external fund managers; management companies include 45 alternative investment fund managers (AIFMs), 46 sub-threshold AIFMs, three UCITS management companies and five dual-licensed entities. AUM is split across AIFMs (63%), dual AIFM and UCITS management companies (17%), sub-threshold AIFMs (9%), UCITS management companies (10%) and regulated UCIs managed by foreign fund managers (1%). UCITS portfolios were mainly invested in transferable securities (86.7%), while AIFs, AIFLNPs and RAIFs were allocated primarily to private equity (31%) and real estate (16.6%), with the bulletin adding a first-time deeper breakdown of private equity and the “Other” category. The bulletin also reports that 162 UCIs invest in Cyprus, with Cyprus investments totalling EUR 2.9 billion (27.19% of AUM), and provides investor and sectoral AUM breakdowns, including shipping (EUR 657.3 million) and energy (EUR 497.0 million).

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