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November  2023  (8)

• In conversation: Gary Maclachlan, Deloitte

  Gary Maclachlan is an Associate Director in Deloitte’s Guernsey tax team What is your focus and specialism?  I have been working in the financial services industry in Guernsey for the past eight years, and during this time, my focus has shifted more and more to the funds sector.  ...     [read more]

  By Deloitte on  29 November 2023 

• Responsible investing

  The increasing importance of ESG in investment fund decision-making The funds industry continues to push ahead with the implementation of increasingly onerous sustainable reporting and compliance measures – against the backdrop of a volatile geopolitical setting and fragile macroeconomic outl...     [read more]

  By Dr Desne Masie on  27 November 2023 

• Ensuring ongoing success in the Channel Islands

  Zedra Funds Director Mark Cleary and Guernsey Head of Funds Damien Fitzgerald on why the Channel Islands have always faced robust competition from other jurisdictions for their share of the international funds market – and this will remain the status quo in the future   The bai...     [read more]

  By Zedra on  22 November 2023 

• Asset management in the age of uncertainty

  Steve Stormonth, Audit Partner at KPMG in the Crown Dependencies, offers some tips for navigating current market turbulence These are interesting times. Central banks have been raising interest rates aggressively and, coupled with low investor confidence, equity and bond markets have been heavily i...     [read more]

  By KPMG on  20 November 2023 

• Out of the ordinary

  A fund focused on national security, crime prevention and public safety… a systematic venture capital fund relying on system-based scoring rather than manager discretion… demand for new investment opportunities is driving an increase in unusual and unique solutions  With a team c...     [read more]

  By Gill Wadsworth on  16 November 2023 

• Gateway to Europe

  A look at Why US fund managers are choosing the Channel Islands For decades, when US fund managers looked offshore, they would head to their own ‘back yard’ – Delaware, the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands. But in recent years, a growing number have been shifting operati...     [read more]

  By Len Williams on  13 November 2023 

• Ocorian: the funds landscape

  Alternative fund managers expect a dramatic rise in inflows from pension funds and private banks over the next 18 months Inflows from pension funds predicted to rise The fund management industry has endured a difficult period, with fewer funds launched and the amount of capital raised at some of t...     [read more]

  By Ocorian on  8 November 2023 

• Funds in focus

  Following a period of huge turbulence across global markets and economies, how has the funds sector performed? And what’s on an upward trajectory as we look forward? Investors and fund managers have had to deal with considerable volatility and uncertainty during the past 12 months. The conti...     [read more]

  By David Stirling on  6 November 2023 

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