British and American critics of the European Commissions draft directive aimed at regulating alternative investment funds gained an important and not-unexpected ally, after Swedish policymakers reco
Children whose parents take them abroad to live are typically reluctant, at first, to leave their friends and the security of their home culture and language. But data compiled as part of a larger rep
Abbey International (AI) has boosted the interest rates it pays to sterling customers of its so-called Gold current accounts.
Switzerland has agreed a tax information protocol with the UK, as it moves to reinvent itself ahead of the next G20 symposium in a little over two week’s time.
IFA firm International Financial Services (IFS) has opened a Qatar office, its first outside the Far East.
Jupiter’s Ben Surtees has taken over management of the firm’s £46m Asian Fund from Philip Ehrmann, who will focus solely on the China Fund.
Thousands of expatriate Britons now await a decision by European human rights judges in Strasbourg that will affect how much state pension they are to receive in years to come, following a key hearing
The OECD has claimed a “revolution” in its bid to eradicate tax evasion through banking secrecy, saying it will soon add “teeth” to measures designed to ensure members deliver on promises to share fin
Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (Swip) has launched four funds into its Luxembourg Sicav, three with emerging market strategies and the fourth a UK equity 140/40 portfolio.
Vistra, the Geneva-based international trust and corporate services provider with roots and offices in London and Jersey, has sold a majority stake to IK Investment Partners, a Scandinavian private eq
Britannia International, the Isle of Man-based offshore subsidiary of what is now known as the Co-operative Bank, has launched a second issue of its six-year Guaranteed Capital Bond, and an eighth iss
Sales of overseas-domiciled funds in the UK market leapt in July, the Investment Management Association(IMA) reported, touching their highest monthly total since it began publishing data in 2007.
