Category: Finance & Business

Chartered Surveyors and Property Consultants, Jones Watts Limited, has recently strengthened its professional team with the appointment of Chartered Commercial Property Surveyor, Wing Lai MSc MRICS, and Graduate surveyor Nicole Ozanne MPlan. Wing joins the firm having qualified as a Chartered Surveyor in 2009 whilst working as an Asset Manager for Bruntwood Limited, one of [...]

Kleinwort Benson has been appointed fund administrator for a market-leading Guernsey domiciled fund, with a launch value of US$150 million. Kleinwort Benson (Channel Islands) Fund Services Limited has helped Prosperity Capital Management (“Prosperity”) Limited to successfully launch its fourth Guernsey domiciled closed ended fund, Prosperity Quest II Unlisted Limited, demonstrating Guernsey’s position as a robust [...]

Collins Stewart Wealth Management (“CSWM”) is pleased to announce the appointment of Christopher Sherwell as a Non-Executive Director (NED) of Collins Stewart (Channel Islands) Limited (“CSCI”) with immediate effect. Mr Sherwell has extensive business and board room experience, holding NED positions on a number of investment related companies offshore. In a wide-ranging career, Mr Sherwell [...]

GUERNSEY’S only provider of full outsourced HR services is celebrating three successful years in business. Katie Vidamour and Becky Machon founded Focus HR Solutions in 2007 when they were just 24 years old, to capitalise on what they saw as the future of the industry in Guernsey.  Their original aim has remained unchanged. “With the [...]

TWO students have won bursaries from Butterfield Bank and gained top grades at A-level. Elizabeth Wray achieved two A*s and an A in Biology, Chemistry and Maths and Jessica Webb received two As and a B in English Literature, Religious Studies and French. Ladies’ College pupil Miss Wray has achieved a place at Durham University [...]

BARCLAYS Wealth has strengthened its captive team and is reviewing its processes to meet the needs of its growing client base. The Guernsey-based team has appointed Jo Walker and Claire Blondel as relationship managers. They join manager Dave Bartram and the team is supported by Laura Malden. ‘The first six months of 2010 have seen [...]

THE States of Guernsey and the States of Jersey are looking for high-calibre people to represent the Channel Islands in Europe. They will shortly be advertising the posts of “Director of European Affairs” and “European Affairs Adviser”, both of whom will operate from the new Channel Islands Brussels Office, which is due to open in [...]

The results of a new survey by Lloyds TSB, released today, show that for those living in Guernsey, the most stressful part of getting married is organising the finances.  With over half of all those living in the Channel Islands estimating their ideal wedding would cost between £10,000 and £19,999, those looking to wed also [...]

HIGHLY-respected Royal Court Judge Russell Finch will be the keynote speaker at the third AO Hall Fraud Conference in October. Judge Finch will be joined by speakers from Guernsey, London and New York at the biennial event, which is held in conjunction with GTA University Centre. ‘We are delighted that Judge Finch has agreed to [...]

In September, the States will debate the first annual review of the States Strategic Plan (SSP). The SSP was approved last October as a replacement for the Government Business Plan and it was described at the time as a real breakthrough for government in Guernsey bringing together policy and financial planning for the first time. [...]