Henry Freeman recently joined We Are Guernsey as a
strategic adviser alongside other non-executive and advisory roles.
In this article he reflects on what keeps Guernsey's finance
industry at the vanguard of finance centres
globally.
As an investment manager and then an investment banker, I've
spent the bulk of my career in London but have also been based
across the Channel Islands at various points and now settled in
Guernsey. Throughout my career, I have worked with managers and
service providers from across the world as a corporate broker which
focused on London Stock Exchange listed investment companies.
A key attraction moving back was the quality of the finance
industry here. Simply put, the pool of expert and experienced
service providers in Guernsey is deep – be they lawyers,
accountants, fund administrators, fiduciaries, insurers... the list
goes on. This rich finance industry ecosystem, developed over
more than 50 years, has enabled Guernsey to become
