Guernsey has developed a suite of products appealing to managers and investors which demonstrate the island's strength as a centre for alternative investment funds, and its flexible, regulatory regime. The current trend for migrations to satisfy the demands of economic substance has focused thinking on what managers are really looking for in today's climate. This session will be moderated by James Bromley, Partner in the London private funds group at law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges....
Nov 04, 2020•48 min•Ep. 17
We will also discuss the implications for the global fund community and the investment landscape, including issues like managing investor activism and how managers can demonstrate resilience. Guernsey has the infrastructure to tackle issues around sustainability and proven resilience, as evidence through the island's handling of the Covid crisis. This session will be moderated by Miles Celic, Chief Executive of TheCityUK.
Nov 04, 2020•57 min•Ep. 16
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Oct 26, 2020•22 min•Ep. 15
The theme for this year's event is 'Emerging from Crisis - Reshaping Family Offices'. To state that 2020 is a year of uncertainty is an understatement. Against a backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic, political turmoil in Hong Kong, the US elections and the threats of kidnap or cyber-attack, family offices are reflecting and preparing for a new operating environment. They may be embracing the opportunities provided by remote working or dealing with the challenges that this might pose, considering...
Oct 16, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 14
Dr Andy Sloan, Deputy Chief Executive, Strategy at WE ARE GUERNSEY will be moderating a panel discussion with viewer questions to follow. The panel consists of: - Kate Hodson, Head of ESG Funds at Ogier in Hong Kong - Iain Henderson, Managing Director at ADM Capital - Tracy Wong Harris, Deputy Secretary General of the Hong Kong Green Finance Association, and - Kevin Smith, Director of Ocorian in Guernsey
Oct 08, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 13
Guernsey has now for many years offered certainty and continuity to ILS managers and their funds, with a bespoke regulatory regime that has been specifically designed for the sector. Our experience and expertise in both investment funds and insurance are combined in our ILS offering, as fund managers and promoters with capital to deploy are brought together with transformation managers who understand insurance risk. DISCLAIMER- *In between eight and 11 minutes during the webinar there were some ...
Jul 08, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 12
We Are Guernsey's annual investment funds flagship event usually takes place in London. This year's webinar features two Guernsey-based speakers taking part in a virtual fireside chat, focusing mainly on the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and the potential routes for recovery. Turnaround expert Jon Moulton has called the pandemic "the biggest disruption of my working life". Independent director Andreas Tautscher says the issues being faced, and the potential recovery solutions, look ...
Jun 24, 2020•54 min•Ep. 10
Guernsey Green Finance Chair Dr Andy Sloan caught up with Tim Hames, former Director-General of the British Venture Capital Association (BVCA) to review Guernsey Sustainable Finance Week, and go over some of the key themes about the roles of private capital, family offices and private equity in greening the global economy.
Jun 24, 2020•34 min•Ep. 9
Hear how the captive insurance industry is innovating in response to a fast-changing world, and about Guernsey’s strengths in the market, in our webinar with a panel of speakers who have wide experience of international corporate insurance and the captives industry. Audio taken live from our webinar in June 2020.
Jun 24, 2020•58 min•Ep. 11
Sabine Döbeli, Managing Director of the Swiss Sustainable Finance Initiative, with a European perspective on sustainability in the Covid-19 environment.
Jun 24, 2020•37 min•Ep. 6
In the third of We Are Guernsey's Sustainable Finance Week webinars, Dr Andy Sloan was joined by Richard Burrett, Chief Sustainability Officer to fund manager Earth Capital, Fellow at University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and former Chair of the UNEP Finance Initiative; Gurpreet Manku, Deputy Director General and Head of Policy at the British Venture Capital Association (BVCA); and Divya Seshamani, Managing Partner of Greensphere LLP and Member of the UK Government’s Co...
Jun 24, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 4
Stephen Nolan, managing director of the UN's Financial Centres for Sustainability (FC4S), offers a global take on the impact of Covid-19 on the sustainable finance agenda.
Jun 24, 2020•49 min•Ep. 5
Emilie Shaw, Portfolio Director and Sustainability Lead, outlines Cazenove Capital’s sustainable investment priorities and how private capital can be used to build back better post the Covid-19 crisis.
Jun 24, 2020•47 min•Ep. 8
The sustainability view from Asia, with lawyer Ben McQuhae, Founder and Co-Chair of the Hong Kong Green Finance Task Force.
Jun 24, 2020•42 min•Ep. 7
In the second episode of We Are Guernsey's Sustainable Finance Week webinars, Dr Andy Sloan was joined by David Bain, Editor of Family Capital magazine; Taeun Kwon, Head of Private Wealth Programmes at the University of Zurich’s Centre for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth; and Guernsey resident turnaround investor Jon Moulton, an active investor in sustainable finance for decades.
Jun 24, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 3
In We Are Guernsey's first Sustainable Finance Week webinar, one of the UK’s eminent sustainable finance thinkers, Ben Caldecott, founding Director of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme, and strategic adviser to the UK Green Finance Initiative’s Chief Executive, takes us through a provisional assessment on the structural impact of Covid-19 on financing climate action. Ben was joined by Anjalika Bardalai, Chief Economist & Head of Research at TheCityUK.
Jun 24, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 2
Dr Andy Sloan outlines Guernsey's positioning in green and sustainable finance and the story of how We Are Guernsey reached Sustainable Finance Week.
Jun 10, 2020•23 min•Ep. 1
