Providing Shelter From The Storm

Managing Director of our Guernsey office, Ben Hill recaps the key discussion points from the second day of We Are Guernsey's Guernsey Funds Forum Webinar held on 5 November 2020. *

For those looking for signs of optimism in what has been a troubling 2020 for many, the week leading up to We Are Guernsey's Guernsey Funds Forum Webinar was one to forget: surging coronavirus cases prompted fresh lockdowns across the world; there were fatal terror attacks in Vienna; and somewhat more predictably, there was chaos and confusion in the form of the US election.

The latter issue has since dissipated - albeit to a Trump Twitterstorm - as the world recognised Joe Biden as president-elect. There has also been a breakthrough in the fight against coronavirus, as Pfizer and BioNTech announced the first effective vaccine that can prevent more than 90% of people contracting coronavirus. Twists such as these have become commonplace in recent months and in a world where the