Investment

The Private Investment Fund Summary The Guernsey Financial Services Commission is today launching its regime for Private Investment Funds. This concludes its evaluation of the responses to the consultation process. The Commission is very grateful to all who responded and will be writing in due course to all who did so. The Applications Process The duration of the applications process would be one...

The Guernsey Financial Services Commission is consulting on proposals to introduce a regime for private investment funds. Background This consultation is the evolution of discussions held by the Investment Supervision and Policy Division and industry, commencing with the Manager-Led Product. These discussions acknowledged a gap in the current suite of investment products within the Bailiwick...

Investment Audited Financial Statements (Funds) – Return Form 143 Investment Audited Financial Statements (Non-Guernsey Schemes) Return 143 should be completed by all licensees for whom it appears on their Online Submissions Timeline. Online Submission Form 200 should be used by licensees responsible for submitting Non-Guernsey Scheme accounts to the Commission until such time as a dedicated...

The Commission wishes to remind all financial services and prescribed businesses, together with personal fiduciary licence holders, that the Financial Crime Risk Return is due for submission by 31 October 2016. The Return can be found through the Commission’s Online Submissions Portal, located here: https://submit.gfsc.gg/ Further information on the background to the Return, as well as guidance on...

Further to the Commission’s news release of 25 July 2016, the Commission would like to advise that Return 141a has now been released to the relevant licensees' timelines for the submission of Q3 statistical returns. Should a licensee wish to make use of a multi-scheme Designated Manager Quarterly Return, it may do so by completing the Form 141b spreadsheet which can be found here . Guidance Notes...

Investment Funds. The net asset value of total funds under management and administration has increased in Sterling terms over the quarter ended 30 June 2016 by £9 billion (3.8%) to £247.1 billion. For the year since 30 June 2015, total net asset values increased by £27.1 billion (12.3%) . Open-ended Funds . Within these totals Guernsey domiciled open-ended funds increased by £0.9 billion (2.2%)...

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1518, as implemented in the Bailiwick by the Iraq (United Nations Sanctions) Channel Islands Order 2000, has been amended. The effect of the amendment, which is automatically effective in the Bailiwick, is to remove nineteen entities from the list of persons subject to financial restrictions under Resolution 1518. Further details about the amendment are...

The Financial Services Commission (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 1987 as amended (“the Financial Services Commission Law”) The Protection of Investors (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 1987 as amended (the “POI Law”) Louvre Fund Services Limited – (“Louvre”) Mr Kevin Paul Gilligan– Executive Director (“Mr Gilligan”) Mr Charles Peter Gervais Tracy - Executive Director (“Mr Tracy”) (together “the Directors...

​ISIL (DA’ESH) AND AL-QAIDA NETWORK This Notice is issued further to a previous Sanctions Notice issued in relation to the updating of information about an individual on the list of persons associated with ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida maintained under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1267 (the listed person). Please be advised that a corresponding change has now been made to the list...