In the current market environment, alternative investment funds are trying to find new ways to attract capital ...

More than 1 billion people - representing about 15.7% of the world's population - regularly use the internet. This is an increase from 45 million in 1995 and 420 million in 2000. It is predicted that at least 2 billion users will be online by the year 2011.

In 1971, the Government of the Cayman Islands enacted the Registered Land Law. This Law introduced a system of land registration which is accurate, efficient, and simple. This system is similar in a number of ways to the registered land system in the United Kingdom and to the Australian Torrens System (invented by Sir Robert R. Torrens, an Australian who on the 27th of January, 1858, introduced a bill in South Australia which later became in Australia The Real Property Act).

Most regulated sectors in the Cayman Islands have continued on a steady path over the last 12 months with Private Funds up 3.4%. Funds may have previously been discouraged to set up...

When a Canadian hedge fund manager has built up a successful track record using a domestic Canadian fund vehicle, as a logical next step it may wish to use the same investment strategy to attract international investment.

A unit trust is a form of collective investment scheme, designed to create a pool of assets for investment purposes and usually (but not always) to provide some liquidity to investors by permitting them to redeem their units.

What is the legal system (civil law, common law or a mixture of both)? The Cayman Islands are administered as a British Overseas Territory, but have a significant degree of internal self-government. The Cayman Islands have a combined common law and statute based legal system. English common law is of persuasive authority.

Over the past 25 years, the Cayman Islands has become a pre-eminent jurisdiction for the formation of alternative investment funds, with around 12,000 regulated open-ended funds and 12,000 regulated closed-ended funds.

This update takes a look back at the key legal and regulatory developments which occurred during 2023. It also considers key legal and regulatory developments which will affect persons...

The Securities Investment Business Law (the "Law") came into effect on 22 July 2003 was consolidated and revised in 2004 and was passed in order to regulate the business of securities investment in the Cayman Islands.

More than 1 billion people - representing about 15.7% of the world's population - regularly use the internet. This is an increase from 45 million in 1995 and 420 million in 2000. It is predicated that at least 2 billion users will be online by the year 2011.

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