Committee of European Securities Regulators have issued "A consumer's guide to MiFID. Investing in financial products". This guide explains the basics of a new piece of European legislation called Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) and how it affects concumers when dealing with firms that provide investment services in Europe.

On the 1st of March, 2008 new amendments of the law shall open new opportunities for the specialised investment funds in Lithuania. These funds include private equity (risk capital), real estate, alternative investment (hedge) funds and other specialized collective investment undertakings (SCIU), both close-end and open-end. SCIU can be registered as investment funds (fund assets legally belong to the unit holders but not the fund manager) or investment companies (investment company is organized in form of a public limited liability company). One of the main SCIU merit is tax advantage: SCIU is exempt from corporate income tax. Investment income (returns from investments), dividends and other distributed profits received by investment funds is non-taxable income under the Law on Corporate Income Tax.