The Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC) is working closely with its Guernsey counterpart and in parallel with US regulators against wound-up financial services firm Providence Global.
Wednesday’s vote by the upper house of the Brazilian senate to impeach Dilma Rousseff is being seen as a significant step forward for the country, but could well be the end of the road for contrarian investors.
The Royal Court of Guernsey has ordered the winding up of Providence Global Ltd, the parent company of locally registered Providence Investments Funds and its manager Providence Investment Management International.
Emerging markets are back in favour, but are investors going back in on solid fundamentals or blind hope?
US athletes could be on track to see their Olympic and Paralympic gold, silver and bronze medals shine more brightly with Congress expected to make tax breaks for winners a ‘top priority’, according to media reports.
The Royal Court of Guernsey has appointed Deloitte as administration managers to Providence Investment Funds and its manager Providence Investment Management International Ltd (Pimil) after all of the directors of both companies resigned last week.
A double whammy of political change and an upswing in commodities is a huge boost for the investment case for Brazil, according to BlackRock’s Will Landers.
Recent high yield bond market gains may dwindle due to volatility and weak global growth, according to Nicolo Carpaneda, investment director, fixed income at M&G.
What a difference a year makes. In the first quarter of 2015, the top 10 funds were a mixture of Japanese equities, Russian equities, and biotechnology funds, with a frontier markets fund rounding things out.
Residents of Brazil with undeclared offshore assets can now voluntarily declare and regularise their tax affairs without facing criminal prosecution and only face a one-off charge and penalty.
The chief executive and chairman of Latin America’s largest independent investment bank, Grupo BTG Pactual, resigned on Sunday after he was jailed the previous week as part of a sweeping corruption probe, reports Reuters.
Brazil’s federal government has submitted a bill to the Senate to establish a voluntary disclosure programme that would allow companies and individuals to regularise any undeclared offshore assets without facing criminal prosecution.
