11/23/2015
The offshore financial industry shows resilience as demand stays robust
The high level of secrecy it provides is sometimes seen as helping to hide wealth from spouses or business partners and to launder illicit money.
11/19/2015
Despite increased media attention, Belize remains as perhaps the best kept secret in the Caribbean real estate market.
11/19/2015
The Benefits Of Establishing An Offshore Presence
At some point in a company's life cycle may surface the curiosity whether the company, its subsidiary or any of its assets should be offshore.
11/12/2015
The climate for new hedge fund launches remains upbeat and confidence has improved over the summer as we continue to see a steady stream of instructions from both new and existing clients
11/11/2015
Last month the Bahamas Supreme Court approved a request from EXIM, Baha Mar’s primary financier, to appoint Deloitte and Touche as the project’s receiver.
11/11/2015
Wealth-X has identified more than 211,000 ultra high net worth individuals globally – defined as those with US$30 million and above in net assets – and 79% of them own two or more residences.
11/10/2015
Shift in European fund managers’ attitudes towards AIFMD
The attitudes of fund managers in Europe towards the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive are continuing to evolve as managers increasingly get to grip with risk management and reporting
11/09/2015
During the two-day conference itself, the BDA booth saw a lot of traffic.
11/08/2015
Ongoing challenges include linking strategy and risk, and addressing growing cyber security risks
11/06/2015
The mega-haven
This unique index combines a secrecy score with a weighting to create a ranking of the secrecy jurisdictions and countries that most actively promote secrecy in global finance.
11/06/2015
Occasionally Bermuda does lead the world
More than two thirds of the world’s total $25 billion of ILS capacity was issued from Bermuda, according to Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) figures.
11/04/2015
HDFC sets up firm to launch offshore realty fund
HDFC Capital Advisors, the new fund management company set up by HDFC, plans to raise offshore fund
11/04/2015
‘New normal’ interest rates fuelling mortgage applications from overseas buyers and expats
“A large proportion of British expats will ultimately return to the UK at some stage and, understandably, would like a home to go back to.
11/04/2015
OECD-UNCTAD report on G20 investment measures
Expressed in numbers, well over 80% of newly-taken measures specific to foreign direct investment were liberalising in nature.
11/03/2015
U.S. Placed Above Cayman Islands in Financial Secrecy Blacklist
Singapore and the Cayman Islands were placed fourth and fifth in the TJN rankings
11/03/2015
The detailed report also includes data on the regulation of labour markets
11/02/2015
The United Nations runs a quality of life index, which also takes account of literacy, longevity, infant mortality and the like.
11/02/2015
There are over 13,000 people working in the Irish investment funds industry, working on over 13,000 investment funds of which around 6,000 are domiciled in Ireland.
11/01/2015
Only 6% of board directors and 3% of CEOs of leading banks have professional technology experience;
11/01/2015
Challenges to becoming a customer-focused digital enterprise include digital strategy ownership, organizational readiness, and establishing metrics to measure digital success