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Odey closes global fund as investment wanes
London-based Odey Asset Management, whose founder Crispin Odey ... The firm’s Tactical Advantage Fund, run by Suren ... It was a global long/short fund, aiming to ... Stewart said: "There was a lack of critical ... The fund only reached about $8m (€6m), but ... Patel is no longer listed on the fund's...
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Comment: The UK, its tax havens – and Switzerland
In the new era of financial morality – ... In an interview in the Observer, a UK ... Switzerland has become an easy target for politicians. ... Politicians - and the Western media - are ... Switzerland’s confidential banking system also provides easy pickings ... But the UK might be well advised to...
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Coutts under shadow of state control
There have been two consistencies in Coutts & ... It is perhaps ironic that after a history ... RBS has received £20bn (€22.7bn) of state support, ... Some observers believe that majority state ownership sits ... Alexander Hoare, managing partner of one of Coutts’...
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Diamonds are an investor's best friend
A fund offering access to physical diamonds is ... The KPR diamond fund capitalises on the price ... The diamond fund aims to provide returns which ... The fund, which is part of KPR Fund, ... The move comes weeks after Alfa Capital, the ... Giovanni Pennetta, chief executive of Goldwinds Asset Management,...
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Letter from the City: UK plans amnesty program for offshore bank accounts
In these lean times, governments are facing pressure ... The UK Treasury will launch an amnesty for ... A similar plan in 2007 brought in around ... The move comes as the UK and other ... Timms said the new plan gives offshore-account holders ... The tide is fast turning against offshore financial...
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Pressure mounts on tax havens
If offshore financial centres were under any illusion ... It emerged last week that Raoul Weil, a ... Grace Perez-Navarro, a deputy director at the Organisation ... In 2000, the Paris-based inter-government agency, the Financial ... There are now just three countries still on...
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Funds of funds take drastic steps to cope with Madoff
Funds of hedge funds entangled in products managed ... Nicola Horlick, manager of fund of funds Bramdean ... Bramdean had about 9.5% of its assets in ... Separately another feeder fund into Madoff, Fairfield Sentry, ... Investors have initiated a class action in New ... Another US fund which invested money with Madoff...
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Cayman Islands hedge funds may suspend redemptions
Investors in Cayman Islands hedge funds may not ... The Cayman Islands Court of Appeal passed the ... The ruling includes the right to "suspend the ... For a decade the Cayman Islands have been ... Nearly 10,000 of the world’s Investment Funds are ... Previously, it had been thought that an investor...
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Wealth adviser builds in Cayman
International wealth adviser Maitland has hired lawyers Magda ... The three individuals will join the team headed ... Magda Embury, who will help up finance and ... Carey has joined from Henry Davis York in ... Maitland administers assets worth $70 billion on behalf...
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Safe havens face crackdown
Offshore financial centres are braced for a mauling ... They can argue that poor onshore bank governance ... German finance minister Peer Steinbrück has called for ... He alleges local investment conditions have encouraged German ... following probes into accounts held in neighbouring Liechenstein....
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