Treasure Islands

In recent years, Channel Islands-based trust companies have faced increasing pressure from beneficiaries of trust structures, who are concerned by inferior investment performance, particularly against the backdrop of poor investment markets between 2001 and 2003. In order to help alleviate this problem, an increasing trend among those trust companies has been to employ investment analysts or 'gatekeepers' to assist with the supervision of the trustee-appointed investment manager, who may have failed to spread risk sufficiently or adhere to the agreed investment strategy. In some cases, ...