Framont Management

Framont & Partners Management Ltd is a Maltese fund management company that gives asset managers, family offices and investors a regulated route into European markets. It is licensed by the Malta Financial Services Authority and works from the Dragonara Business Centre in San Ġiljan, better known to visitors as St Julian's. It operates as a platform: you bring the investment strategy and it supplies the licence, structure and compliance machinery.

Its material is aimed at professional clients and eligible counterparties, not at the general public, so this page is most useful to fund promoters, family offices and business owners who are weighing up Malta. The firm appears in our directory of financial advisors in Malta, and our overview of financial services in Malta explains the wider sector.

Regulation and background

The company is licensed by the MFSA under the Investment Services Act 1994 and qualifies as a UCITS management company under the UCITS Directive and as an alternative investment fund manager, or AIFM, under the AIFMD. In plain terms, it can manage the regulated investment funds that European rules call alternative investment funds, which cover assets such as property, private equity, hedge-fund style strategies and digital assets.

The leadership team has more than 30 years of combined experience in asset management. Gianluigi Montagner is chief executive, with over 35 years in financial services that began in Italian private banking. Marzia Biasibetti is an executive director who joined in 2015 and has worked on company secretarial, anti-money laundering and fund set-up duties. Ciro Lauro heads onboarding and customer service, and Francesco Maggioni is the portfolio manager, with 25 years in the industry across consulting firms and banks.

EU fund vehicles through one platform

The core offer is three regulated entry structures that run on the firm's MFSA-authorised platform. A promoter who would otherwise need its own AIFM licence, a process that can take far longer, delegates the regulatory layer to Framont and keeps investment decisions within the delegation rules of the directive.

The first structure is the alternative investment fund, in a notified form for smaller managers, which carries an EU marketing passport for qualified investors across the 27 markets of the bloc. The target launch window for a new fund is 30 to 60 days, subject to the regulator's processing times, and sub-funds can be launched under the firm's existing umbrella in around 30 to 45 days. Suggested assets under management start at €3M, depending on the strategy.

The second is the actively managed certificate, a listed security that tracks a portfolio the manager continues to run with full discretion, issued under existing listing programmes on recognised exchanges, so no separate fund authorisation is required. The third is the exchange traded instrument, a securitised listed product regulated under Maltese investment services law, aimed at wide distribution to institutional and, where permitted, retail investors, and suited to tokenised or systematic strategies. Both listed routes can be arranged in a matter of weeks and do not require an EU entity of your own.

The firm has tested the platform on varied mandates, including a dedicated Italian real estate fund for a family, a Malta SICAV for a trading family office, a listed instrument for a group of options and equity traders, and a certificate for Caribbean real estate. For the tax background on Maltese structures, read our explainer on Malta's corporate tax structure.

Malta is positioned as a proportionate regulatory environment for managers of this size, with a double tax treaty network covering more than 70 jurisdictions. Any tax treatment of fund income, gains or rental income depends on the law and your circumstances, and independent tax advice is recommended before you commit.

Who the platform is for

The platform serves five client profiles: external fund managers who have a strategy but not a licence, managers relocating an existing structure without losing their investors, EU-based family offices and wealthy individuals wanting an institutional vehicle, real estate developers raising capital from European investors, and non-EU managers and families wanting EU regulatory credibility.

Strategies already structured include real estate, private equity, liquid strategies such as long and short or multi-asset approaches, and digital assets, using Malta's DLT framework. The team has operational experience in Malta, Italy, Luxembourg, Dubai, Spain and the Caribbean, and in investor markets across Eastern Europe, the Gulf, Africa and South East Asia.

For a non-EU manager the appeal is straightforward. European allocators increasingly ask about the wrapper as well as the track record, because a structure authorised or supervised in the EU brings a depositary, a defined reporting regime and regulator oversight. A Gulf, Asian or Latin American manager with European interest in a strategy can therefore structure through the platform instead of relocating, licensing and waiting out a long authorisation process, and can later move from a listed instrument towards a full fund if the relationship grows.

Wealth strategies and portfolio management

Alongside the platform, Framont offers wealth strategies designed to preserve and grow assets, investment advice, portfolio management and investment portfolio analysis that explains how a portfolio is performing and where adjustments may be needed. Setting up certificates and exchange traded instruments is also listed as a service line.

Readers moving to Malta from the UK may want to consider the personal side as well, and our guide to Malta tax for UK nationals and UK guide to relocating to Malta are good starting points. For company and relocation support, you can compare CLA Malta, our featured adviser.

Compliance and the AIFMD II framework

The directive known as AIFMD II, which is in force in 2026, tightens rules for funds, including liquidity management tools such as gates, notice periods and swing pricing, stricter oversight of delegated work and fuller investor disclosure. The platform runs these controls centrally alongside anti-money laundering and know-your-customer checks, tax reporting under FATCA and CRS, sustainability disclosures and regulatory reporting. Fund promoters keep their own investor-facing duties.

The cost model is shared: audit, legal and regulated infrastructure are spread across the funds on the platform, and cost illustrations are provided on request.

An ESG policy and sustainability disclosures are available on the site, which also carries news articles on topics such as raising capital from European institutional investors as a real estate developer and what non-EU asset managers need to reach European investors with a regulated product.

Offices and getting there

The office is on the fifth floor of the Dragonara Business Centre on Dragonara Road in San Ġiljan, in the St Julian's area. Visitors who want to stay nearby can look at our guide to hotels in Sliema and St Julian's, and our introduction to Malta covers the islands more broadly. If a meeting leaves time to explore, our Valletta guide and our list of things to do in Malta cover the sights, from the capital's fortifications to the coast. Both are handy for turning a business trip into a short stay.

The phone line is staffed Monday to Friday, 9:00 to 17:30 Central European Time, and consultations are available in English and Italian.

Starting a conversation

The firm offers a free initial consultation of about 30 to 45 minutes. It looks at your strategy, investor profile, assets under management, preferred structure and target markets, followed by a term sheet and proposal within about five days. Documentation and filing take a few weeks, followed by authorisation or listing and the operational launch.

Documents differ by structure. For funds they include offering documents, investor disclosures, the chosen liquidity tools and constitutional papers, which Framont prepares and files with the MFSA and then follows through to authorisation. For certificates and instruments they include term sheets, issuance documents, the exchange listing application and an investment management agreement. At launch, funds also need a depositary, bank accounts, net asset value calculation and investor onboarding.

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