Offshore Investment

Adrian Corkill, Canada Life International's marketing manager explains how the principles of pound cost averaging can provide opportunities in the downturn.

Baring Asset Management is to launch a Dublin-domiciled Middle East and North Africa (Mena) fund, managed by the group's regional specialist Dr Ghadir Abu Leil-Cooper.

Lazard Asset Management has been granted a licence to open a representative office in Bahrain.

HSBC Global Asset Management has widened the pool of investors who can access its New Frontiers fund to include institutions and high net worth investors.

Barclays Capital has launched two new structured deposits designed for offshore bond investors, principally those using wrappers from the Isle of Man or Channel Islands.

Net sales of overseas domiciled funds in the UK were £421.6m in May, according to latest figures from the Investment Management Association, reversing the falling trend seen earlier in the year . Of this total, the amount attributable to retail sales...

Allianz Alternative Asset Investment is set to launch its new fund of hedge funds investment company, Peletier Absolute Limited.

A number of investment organisations and business groups have written to the Treasury Select Committee on the issue of offshore financial centres, ahead of yesterday's deadline for comment.

The Association of Investment Companies (AIC) has written to MPs on the Treasury Select Committee in support of the Channel Islands' position as a financial centre.

Fidelity International's Fidelity Active STrategy (FAST) funds range has been converted to UCITS III, creating wider access for European investors.