Fund industry ready to exploit crisis opportunities
The challenges for Guernsey’s hedge fund industry in the coming months and years are slowly emerging from the continued fog that is the current banking and economic crisis.
The challenges for Guernsey’s hedge fund industry in the coming months and years are slowly emerging from the continued fog that is the current banking and economic crisis.
While the much-documented credit crisis maintains a stranglehold on financial markets, the still relatively young alternative investment industry continues to grow.
By the nature of the island, its geography and population, fund service providers in Guernsey have never been geared up to mass-market retail business, a sector now dominated by big global players
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