Offshore law firms, Appleby Spurling Hunter and Jersey-based Bailhache Labesse, have formally completed their merger. First announced in May 2006, the combined group is now called Appleby Hunter Bailhache and is the only offshore provider of legal, fiduciary and administration services with a major presence in four of the world’s leading offshore business centres – Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands and Jersey – as well as offices in London and Hong Kong. It boasts significant collective resources, including 45 partners and approximately 600 employees worldwide. ‘Appleby Hunter Bailhache offers improved services to both existing and new clients.

Credaris, the credit-specialist asset manager, has appointed Bob Buhr as the company’s Head of Credit Research.

MPC Investors, the independent asset manager, has appointed Dan Mannix as Head of Sales.

Thomson Financial has signed a strategic enterprise agreement with Tullett Prebon Information, a leading provider of real-time and end-of-day price information from the wholesale, brokered

All fund servicing centres – Dublin, Luxembourg, Guernsey, Cayman – have capacity issues, but of the genuine island offshore centres, Jersey is not only most populous but the best established in te

John Monnelly describes Martin Currie’s investment processes and the use of the ‘Dynamic Stock Matrix’. John Monnelly joined Pilkington plc in 1978 as a research scientist and progressed to senior technologist by 1988. In 1990 he became a UK portfolio manager and in 1996 was appointed deputy to the CIO, with responsibility for global bonds and US equities. John joined Martin Currie’s pan-Europe team in 1999 as the manager of the UK Growth product. In 2001 he joined the team of sector managers to research and recommend technology stocks. He moved to the UK active team in 2003 to work