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Latest news | 29 Nov 17
The year of reckoning in the UAE… or not?
A lot of gloom is found in Insight Discovery’s flagship Middle East Investment Panorama (MEIP) for 2017, says its chief executive Nigel Sillitoe. Some 63% of advisers saw their clients’ lack of willingness to invest as a threat. Meanwhile, there were not many optimists. Only 18% of advisers saw their clients’ readiness to invest as an opportunity.
Best Practice | 29 Nov 17
What is the value of financial advice?
If an adviser’s ultimate aim is to run a practice where clients will cheerfully pay the fees, the first step must be to counter some false truths about value, says Phil Billingham.
Offshore chiefs bid to avoid EU blacklist
Island jurisdictions including Bermuda, Jersey, Guernsey and Cayman have been making last ditch efforts to avoid being blacklisted by the EU.
Best Practice | 28 Nov 17
Honest taxpayers in HMRC’s sights
Steeper fines under HM Revenue & Customs’ requirement to correct (RTC) regime are just the start of changes that could catch out law-abiding taxpayers, according to KPMG’s head of tax investigations.
Two charged in $150m Providence scam
The chief executive of Providence Companies Group has been federally indicted, along with its chief operating officer, for orchestrating a $150m (£112.5m, €125.8m) fraud that saw the firm’s operations in Guernsey and a Jersey-based IFA firm shut down in 2016.