Island maintains edge in global marketplace
Guernsey offers an excellent infrastructure in terms of the services it can bring to private equity fund promoters, stretching from its legal framework to the providers of legal, accounting and adm
Guernsey offers an excellent infrastructure in terms of the services it can bring to private equity fund promoters, stretching from its legal framework to the providers of legal, accounting and adm
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Contributed by Barclays Wealth and Economist Intelligence Unit
Three of the five hedge fund strategies published by Dow Jones Hedge Fund Indexes posted negative returns for the month of March.

Peter Moore (pictured), head of regulation and compliance at UK compliance consultancy, The IMS Group, responds to yesterday’s EU agreement regarding regulation of credit default swaps (CDS) and short selling… The ban on naked sovereign CDS is not consistent with
The people that inhabit the imposing physical mass of the Rock of Gibraltar, standing at one of the southernmost points of Europe with the mountains of Morocco clearly visible to the south, have ov
Gibraltar’s fund industry is benefiting from a steady increase in international acceptance of the jurisdiction, the result of a range of factors that include increased marketing efforts and a broad
Early estimates indicate the Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index will finish up 0.86 per cent in March, based on 55 per cent of assets reporting.

By Hans-Jörg Baumann – For many decades alternative investments have been gaining increasing attention in the financial world, with politicians, with the public, the press and, not least, regulators. They have been recognised as an important element of diversified portfolio
History suggests that periods of market dislocation such as the present produce shifts in returns such that it is impossible to predict with any ce