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Jersey embraces flexibility in order to evolve with international funds landscape

Jersey will be well positioned to grow its alternative funds business when the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive comes into place, according to expert speakers at a conference organised by Jersey Finance in London last week. An audience of almost 300 fund professionals at Jersey Finance’s London Funds Conference, held

PE volumes continue to rise with steady multiples, says BDO

BDO’s Private Companies Price Index (PCPI) has seen price/earnings (p/e) multiples paid by trade buyers for private companies fall from an average multiple of 12.1 in Q4 2011 to 11.5 in Q1 2012, but is up from an average multiple of 9.0 seen in Q1 2011. The number of trade

Silicon Valley VC confidence surges in Q1

The Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index for the first quarter of 2012, based on a March 2012 survey of 34 San Francisco Bay Area venture capitalists, registered 3.79 on a 5 point scale (with 5 indicating high confidence and 1 indicating low confidence.) This quarter’s index rose significantly from

Dillon Eustace opens Cayman office

Irish law firm Dillon Eustace has opened an office in the Cayman Islands. The new office makes Dillon Eustace first European Union legal firm to establish a fully-serviced practice on the islands. The office opening reflects the firm’s view that while the impact of the introduction of the Alternative Investment

Matthäus Den Otter, chief executive, SFA

Swiss fund market takes pause

In March 2012, the volume of assets placed in the investment funds covered by the Swiss Funds Assiciation (SFA) climbed to around CHF648 billion, an increase of CHF1.4 billion month-on-month. There were inflows of assets for bond funds (+CHF2 billion), products in the “other funds” category (+CHF0.5 billion) and equity

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BVI funds required to file annual returns by 30 June

All private, professional and public funds in the British Virgin Islands are required to submit a Mutual Fund Annual Return (MFAR) to the BVI Financial Services Commission (FSC) no later than 30 June 2012 in respect of the calendar year ending 31 December 2011. Funds and their service providers must

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Reform will unlock China’s growth potential

The transition to a new party leadership in 2012 should facilitate bolder reform and further unlock China’s growth potential, says Yiqian Jiang, fund manager, DWS Invest Chinese Equities fund… 
We believe that fears of an economic hard-landing will prove unwarranted as the Chinese economy is poised to complete the last stage of

US VC investment off to a slow start in 2012

US-based companies raised USD6.3 billion through 717 venture capital deals during the first quarter of 2012, an 18% decline in capital and 9% decline in deals from the same period last year, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. "The declines were pretty evenly spread across industries so there weren’t any big

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Guernsey’s zero-10 regime viewed as harmful

Guernsey’s zero-10 corporate tax regime has been deemed harmful by the EU’s Code of Conduct Group on Business Taxation. The Code Group had previously ruled similarly in relation to both the zero-10 regimes of both Jersey and the Isle of Man. Guernsey had argued that the offending element from the

Bob Jolly, Head of Global Macro, Schroders

Global macro outlook and tactical approach

Amidst ongoing Eurozone concerns and uncertainty surrounding Spain, Schroders’ Head of Global Macro, Bob Jolly, discusses his tactical approach in light of his outlook for the global fixed income markets… The risks to growth expectations could go either way, so we expect markets to remain nervous and levels of volatility to remain elevated.

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