Kate Clouston, Deputy Chief Executive at Guernsey
Finance, explains the unique advantages that make Guernsey an
appealing base from which to do business, and a respite from
Brexit-related uncertainty.
Periods of global volatility – political and economic
– offer both challenges and opportunities for fund managers.
While the current political climate leaves much to be desired, the
show must go on, even – or indeed, especially – amid a
major crisis, such as Brexit.
This has undoubtedly driven some US managers and investment fund
specialists to examine their options for diversification –
both of investments and investors. Last year Bain & Co's
Global Private Equity Report quoted private equity firms as facing
a "shifting and perilously uncertain landscape," and it
would be difficult to argue that the intervening period has
provided any stability whatsoever. So where and how should the
discerning manager source new opportunities?
