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Guernsey to the rescue for in-deficit pension schemes

A longevity swap provides both a definitive solution or a useful stepping stone on route to de-risking, depending on the maturity of a defined benefit pension scheme, delegates heard at a Guerns...

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Zone of insolvency – Directors in the firing line

2018 saw a number of high-profile insolvencies around the world. That trend is expected to continue this year with many sectors facing an extremely challenging trading environment and the ...

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Guernsey to the rescue for in-deficit pension schemes

A longevity swap provides both a definitive solution or a useful stepping stone on route to de-risking, depending on the maturity of a defined benefit pension scheme, delegates heard at a Guerns...

Published

28 March 2019

Zone of insolvency – Directors in the firing line

2018 saw a number of high-profile insolvencies around the world. That trend is expected to continue this year with many sectors facing an extremely challenging trading environment and the ...

Published

28 March 2019

Captive provides discrete and complementary solution

Lane, Clark and Peacock, a leading independent, owner-managed pension, investment and insurance consultancy in the UK, published their 2019 report on pension de-risking on 27 March. The repo...

Published

27 March 2019

Guernsey features in new UN green and sustainable finance report

Guernsey is part of an international movement driving the transition to a low-carbon economic model, highlighted at a high-level conference on sustainable finance taking place in Brusse...

Published

21 March 2019

Guernsey satisfies EU business substance requirements

Guernsey’s global competitiveness as a finance sector has been further enhanced following confirmation from the EU Council’s Code of Conduct Group and the European Council of Finance Ministe...

Published

12 March 2019

EU reaffirms Guernsey as a co-operative Jurisdiction

The States of Guernsey has published its own response to the ECOFIN confirmation on Guernsey's response to legal economic substance requirements in tax governance  The Economic and Financi...

Published

12 March 2019

Open Letter to the signatories of amendments NC3, NC4 and NC5 to the Financial Services (Implementation of Legislation) Bill

Guernsey's Chief Minister Gavin St Pier has written an open letter to MPs regarding proposed amendments NC3, NC4 and NC5 to the Financial Services (Implementation of Legislation) Bill De...

Published

06 March 2019

Guernsey offers solution to pension scheme risks

A Guernsey captive-based solution provides a means by which defined benefit (DB) pension scheme deficits can be managed, on-island experts have said. While many predict that up to 40 FTSE 1...

Published

05 March 2019

Guernsey welcomes deferral of the Financial Services (Implementation of Legislation) Bill

The constitutional position of the Crown Dependencies with the UK Government needs to be better understood by Parliamentarians following the UK Government’s decision to defer debate on i...

Published

04 March 2019

Crown Dependencies’ joint response on Parliamentarians’ attempt to impose public registers of beneficial ownership

The governments of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man have raised strong objections to several amendments that are being proposed to the UK's Financial Services (Implementation of Legislatio...

Published

02 March 2019