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With companies having to work so much harder to retain the public’s love, how does a brand come back from the dead once it’s fallen out of favour?
These days, it seems that companies can wreck their reputation with just one ill-judged tweet. For others, it takes slightly more cat...
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By David Burrows on
30 November 2017
That we live in uncertain times is a given, but it means companies are having to reinvent the way they think about the future
It’s now 15 years since former US Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld uttered his infamous musings on uncertainty. “We know there are known unknowns,” he be...
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By Dave Waller on
27 November 2017
Warren Buffett has long held the view that the only thing you can be sure of when it comes to fund managers is their fees. Could robo advisers replace them and provide better value for money?
Research from S&P Dow Jones Indices, among others, regularly concludes that a majority of active fund m...
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By Richard Willsher on
23 November 2017
New research demonstrates that female entrepreneurs attract far less venture capital funding than their male counterparts – so what can be done to remedy the imbalance?
There’s an inconvenient truth that female entrepreneurs will stumble across sooner or later: their gender will co...
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By Emma De Vita on
20 November 2017
As the funds industries in the Channel Islands look to build on their strengths, will they explore new avenues when it comes to fundraising?
The Channel Islands have long been associated with successful funds industries. Both Guernsey and Jersey have considerable strength in alternative asset funds...
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By David Burrows on
16 November 2017
Population controls and on-island education are just two of the challenges facing Jersey and Guernsey when it comes to employing people in their growing funds industries
The funds industries in the Channel Islands aren’t exactly part-time operations. As of June, Guernsey had £271bn of f...
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By Dave Waller on
13 November 2017
A tightening of international corporate tax rules means that managers of Channel Island funds will have to review their business models
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD’s) Base Erosion and Profit Shifting Project (BEPS) has been in the making for years....
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By Richard Willsher on
9 November 2017
Guernsey and Jersey remain cautiously optimistic ahead of Brexit, but just how will the UK’s departure from the EU affect the Islands’ funds industries?
“Where do we go from here?” went the not-so-cheery refrain of 1990s doom merchants Radiohead. “Words are comin...
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By Tom Huelin on
6 November 2017
As Director General of the British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA), Tim Hames has a perfect view of how the funds industry is performing, where money is being raised, and the role of the Channel Islands. He talked to BL about transformative technology, Brexit and the future o...
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By Nick Kirby on
2 November 2017
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