02/10/2016
Pension assets relative to GDP reached 80% in 2015, which represents a decrease of 4% from the 2014 ratio of 84% The largest pension markets are the US, UK and Japan with 62%, 9% and 8% of total pension assets in the study, respectively
02/09/2016
Locate Jersey, the team responsible for inward investment and high value residency within the Economic Development, Tourism, Sport and Culture Department, has released figures for 2015 which show sustained interest in the number of businesses and high net
02/09/2016
The company did not reveal the cost of the remediation plan or how it would be funded.
02/04/2016
Islamic finance continues to grow in the British Virgin Islands
BVI companies are commonly used as holding companies for cross-border investments into many developing markets, including those where Islamic financing is increasingly popular.
02/04/2016
Shaking Up Global Finance
Online investment platform Bnk To The Future uses bitcoin to do business differently
02/03/2016
ARC Charity Indices Results & Commentary
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be" - Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
02/02/2016
Time to quit Wall Street for a job in the Caribbean? South America?
Want a job in the Caribbean or somewhere else with a warm climate?
02/02/2016
How and Why To Move Your Assets Offshore Before the Financial Collapse
TDV Offshore has a significant service to tell you about.
02/01/2016
Well you really could not make it up! by Justin Urquhart Stewart
Life in the Oil Vortex
01/29/2016
Business activity was also strongly positive, up 31% on the previous quarter and returning to a level similar to that seen during the first six months of last year.
01/29/2016
The Swiss Bank Program was agreed in August, 2013, following intense diplomatic negotiations between the two countries.
01/28/2016
No, write Art Durnev, Tiemei Li and Michel Magnan; but onshore firms are valued higher if they have offshore subsidiaries
01/27/2016
"Organic growth options are limited and scale and diversification are driving a rapid pace of M&A activity for Bermuda insurers and Fitch expects industry consolidation to continue," said Brian Schneider, Senior Director, Fitch.
01/27/2016
Correspondent banks are those that allow Bahamian financial institutions to provide services in their home countries, using their physical and electronic banking.
01/27/2016
Private equity funds distributed a record US$475 billion back to investors in 2014, and returned a further US$189 billion in the first half of 2015.
01/26/2016
Such comments do not bode well for the Bahamas or other IFCs, and Dr Mansharamani backed this nation’s strategy of seeking out new financial services markets.
01/25/2016
Business as a force for good. Millennials continue to hold business in high regard; three-quarters (73 percent) maintain that it has a positive impact on wider society.
01/24/2016
Who’s afraid of cheap oil ?” asks ‘The Economist’ on its front page this week. Judging by the last fortnight in the stock market, just about everybody is.
01/23/2016
Mark Carney has this week yet again postponed the likelihood of an interest rate rise, due to the turmoil in the global economy and weaker UK growth.
01/21/2016
This has led to an increase in the use of reserved powers in trusts notably with regard to investment and, for very wealthy families, the creation of private trust companies.