VAM Funds ramps up distribution strategy
VAM Funds has ramped up its distribution capabilities, creating a new director of sales role and appointing a Far East-based distribution partner.
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Jersey rejects claims it will seek UK bailout to plug deficit
Jersey has denied it is suffering similar financial problems to the Cayman Islands, which has had a request to increase borrowing denied by the UK government.
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Sweden critical of proposed EU regs on alternative funds as Myners meets with lawmakers in Brussels
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
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Expat parents think their children gain from living abroad: NatWest International study
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
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Abbey Intl boosts sterling rates for account holders
Abbey International (AI) has boosted the interest rates it pays to sterling customers of its so-called Gold current accounts.
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Switzerland agrees to exchange tax data with UK
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.
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Guernsey Finances Niven speaks out on his Resolution, F&C directorships
Guernsey Finance chief executive Peter Niven told International Adviser on Friday that he did not see a conflict in his role as a non-executive director of Guernsey-domiciled Resolution the company
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Advisory firm IFS opens for business in Qatar
IFA firm International Financial Services (IFS) has opened a Qatar office, its first outside the Far East.
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Jupiter hands Surtees onshore Asian fund
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.
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Decision awaited in expat pension battle
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
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OECD proclaims ‘revolution’ in tax evasion battle
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
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SWIP launches GEM funds and UK active extension product in Sicav
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.