By Ben Robins (pictured far right), Partner and Global Practice Leader for Mourant’s global funds practice, and Geoff Cook, Chair at Mourant Consulting
This year has already presented its fair share of challenges for investors, but an area that continues to boom, for a number of reasons, is p...
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By Mourant on
31 August 2022
Amid criticism that the financial sector has been slower than most to embrace ESG, pressure is mounting on alternative fund managers to scrutinise their investment activities. And science-based targets (SBTs) could be poised to fill the gap left by the lack of a universal framework in the sustainabl...
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By Gill Wadsworth on
29 August 2022
Paul French, Senior Client Advisor at UBS Global Wealth Management in Jersey, shares UBS’s view of potential scenarios that will drive the market in the second half of 2022
Equity and bond markets are driven by stories, hopes and fears about the future path of growth and inflation.
The...
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By UBS on
26 August 2022
As change grips the financial world, the future of funds is not immune to progress. So what’s hot and what’s not in the funds world, where is investor interest headed – and what does it mean for Jersey and Guernsey?
The funds arena has seen some notable trends in recent times, not...
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By David Burrows on
25 August 2022
Suzanne Pritchard, Junior Product Manager at TrustQuay, explains software-as-a-service and why it’s a game-changer for corporate services and trust administration
The technology industry is renowned for its acronyms. Many have heard of them without necessarily knowing what they actually stand...
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By TrustQuay on
24 August 2022
As sanctioned Russian oligarchs begin to vacate London, Chinese wealth holders with changing investment attitudes and a desire for more stable opportunities overseas are stepping in to fill the gap
It might only feel like yesterday, but it’s 21 years since Goldman Sachs produced a seminal pie...
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By Alexander Garrett on
22 August 2022
Amid rising turbulence and uncertainty across many of the world’s major financial markets, the Channel Islands are proving they are an increasingly secure and stable partner to City firms
As the world grapples with rising costs, interest rate hikes and the impact of the Russian invasion of Uk...
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By David Burrows on
19 August 2022
With a strong business infrastructure, excellent connections to other major business centres, and a friendly, safe, cosmopolitan community where traditional values sit at the very heart of a contemporary lifestyle, Jersey offers the chance for a genuine work-life balance
A longstanding reputation f...
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By Locate Jersey on
18 August 2022
Locate Guernsey is a government agency providing free and impartial advice to businesses and individuals looking to move to Guernsey. Established in 2015, the agency acts as a single point of contact within government, offering guidance on many aspects of island life to help prospective residents an...
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By Locate Guernsey on
17 August 2022
Green finance has multiplied more than 100-fold in the past 10 years but still represents only around 4% of the overall financial markets. The Channel Islands’ financial services sector is at the heart of efforts to drive further growth
London has for some time been considered a global powerh...
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By Steve Falla on
15 August 2022
Simon Guilbert, Audit Director at KPMG in the Crown Dependencies, examines some of the key takeaways around the Securities and Exchange Commission’s recent proposed rule changes for private fund advisers
In February, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed regulatory reforms tha...
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By KPMG on
12 August 2022
Women held just 5% of CEO positions In financial services firms in 2021, 19% of c-suite roles and 21% of board seats. So what’s being done to rectify this – and how can firms bring about real change? Part of the answer lies in a change to the language of diversity
In March this year, th...
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By Sophie McCarthy on
10 August 2022
Michael Caetano, a founder and Senior Investment Director at TMGA Wealth Management, discusses the importance of diversification and how this is especially critical in the current investment landscape
In our last article, ‘Negotiating a VUCA world’, we discussed the importance of having...
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By TMGA on
9 August 2022
As the stock market grabs the headlines of the business pages with billion-dollar valuations, investment scandals and failed IPOs, away from the spotlight – and the volatility – private equity is recording ground-breaking results
Some of the figures around private equity (PE) activity a...
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By Marco de Novellis on
8 August 2022
Spring IM Chief Executive Simon O’ Donoghue and Head of Investment Solutions Carmen Tyler on an investment platform for all
We live in exciting times – the evolution of technology knows no bounds. Artificial intelligence and machine learning, robotic process automation, edge computing, ...
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By Spring IM on
5 August 2022
Amid an increasingly complex financial environment, the demand for Channel Islands-savvy lawyers is surging among City firms. Many jersey and guernsey law firms are finding value in putting people on the ground in the City, while others are focusing on finding ‘jurisdiction-agnostic’ tal...
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By Gill Wadsworth on
5 August 2022
The UBS Global Financial Intermediaries team in Jersey (FIM Jersey) has been providing a dedicated offering to discretionary fund managers/external asset managers, family offices and funds for more than 15 years
the FIM jersey model creates a triangular arrangement between the end-client, the discr...
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By UBS on
3 August 2022
Ten years ago, the Channel Islands witnessed a flurry of management buyout activity across fiduciary services. Today, the growing need for expert and secure services means fiduciary providers are
Cast your mind back a decade or so and, if you were a participant or observer of the fiduciaries ...
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By David Stirling on
1 August 2022