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March  2017  (7)

• The new face of the private client

  Wealthy individuals are spread around the world as never before, AND HAVE a whole host of different demands to boot – which means private client firms  are having to work hard to keep up What do Chinese property moguls, Middle Eastern families and African mining magnates have in common? ...     [read more]

  By Dave Waller on  27 March 2017 

• The interview: Jo Stoddart

  As managing director of Quintessential Relocation Consultants, Jo Stoddart helps individuals, families and businesses move to the Channel Islands. She tells BL who’s coming and why, what the islands have to offer and what they could do better Before you started Quintessential Relocation Consu...     [read more]

  By Nick Kirby on  20 March 2017 

• Cracking the digital code

  Guernsey and Jersey have both nailed their colours to the digital mast – but are they focusing on the right areas or do they need to rethink their technological ambitions? The Channel Islands have had a stop-start relationship with the global technology industry. Twenty years ago, the tiny is...     [read more]

  By Kirsten Morel on  16 March 2017 

• What’s the future for forecasting?

  Used for decades to predict the future of markets, economies and even fashion trends, has forecasting become nothing more than an exercise in futility? For Andy Haldane, Chief Economist at the Bank of England, the fact that economists didn’t predict the 2008 financial crisis was a ‘Mich...     [read more]

  By Alexander Garrett on  13 March 2017 

• Is banking at breaking point?

  Just when we thought everything was tickety-boo in the world of banking, a new series of shocks suggests we’re heading into another crisis Remember how adverts for banks used to sound so reassuring? Midland was the ‘listening bank’, Lloyds the ‘thoroughbred bank’, NatW...     [read more]

  By Dave Waller on  9 March 2017 

• 2017: the year of sharing

  CRS is here, and it will have a big impact on the Channel Islands’ financial services sectors. The question is, how big? The Common Reporting Standard (CRS) for the automatic exchange of financial institutions’ client information was approved by the OECD in July 2014. Its origin was the...     [read more]

  By Richard Willsher on  6 March 2017 

• Corporate or private clients: the investor’s dilemma

  There’s a theory that investors prefer corporate businesses over private client firms, but is that perception remotely accurate or is the thinking flawed? Whether they’re the man on the street choosing which retail funds to invest in, or institutional types looking to buy into a busines...     [read more]

  By Chris Wheal on  2 March 2017 

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