Offshore Investment

A new corporate structure for Irish SICAVs that meets United States check-the-box taxation rules has been given the backing of the Minister for Finance which, in principle, will see the development of legislative proposals.

The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) has issued an alert to advisers and their investors of a current fraudulent e-mail scam facilitated through [email protected] which is claiming to be sent by His Excellency Abdullah Mohammed Saleh,...

Royal Bank of Canada's global wealth division, RBC Wealth Management, is set to acquire the Latin American, Caribbean and African private banking business of Coutts, the wealth division of Royal Bank of Scotland Group. The business has client assets...

Fairbairn Private Bank has appointed Richie Griffiths as private banker focusing on business development based in Jersey.

Clear signs of deficit reduction and economic growth could see Ireland move ahead of more troubled economies such as Portugal and Greece.

The latest Double Tax Agreement is the Island's third extensive DTA - the other two being with the UK and Jersey - and the first to be based on the OECD model convention.

Global investment management firm, PIMCO, has launched an Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) that provides investors with physical access to the short maturity sector of the high yield universe.

Providers agree that while final legislation announced in the Budget will not have a material impact on UK expats retiring overseas, there will be increased obligations on providers and QROPS jurisdictions.

Pictet Asset Management, the asset management arm of the Swiss private bank Pictet & Cie, has launched a tactical global asset allocation fund.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Singapore Exchange (SGX) today jointly signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to speed up the process for secondary listing applications. Malaysia and Thailand are also signatories.