Investment

​The Guernsey Financial Services Commission has today issued a revised guidance note on Qualifying Investor Funds . The definition of Professional Investor has been widened to include an individual investor who invests a minimum of US$100,000 in the fund. The revised guidance note also re-emphasises the due diligence obligations which Guernsey Licensees undertake when submitting applications for...

​The practice, where a person makes an unsolicited call to a potential investor seeking to sell them investments during the course of that call, is known as "Cold Calling". Firms that wish to conduct investment business within the Bailiwick must be licensed by the Commission in order to do so. Cold calling organisations may not have the necessary licence and may even be involved in illegal...

27 April 2005 Representatives of the finance sector in Guernsey have requested clarification of the Commission's policy on certain aspects of introduced business. Accordingly, following consultation with the Joint Money Laundering Steering Group, the Commission has today issued Statement No. 2 on introduced business to the finance sector . Enquiries should be made to: Sylvia Sirett Senior Analyst...

​In the second half of 2004, the Guernsey Financial Services Commission announced that it was consulting on proposals to streamline the approval process for both open and closed ended funds aimed at professional, experienced and knowledgeable investors. Following wide spread support for the proposals set out in the Commission's paper, the Commission has today introduced the new regime with...

INTRODUCTION The GFSC has been conducting an investigation into the activities of certain Guernsey-based fund managers and brokers within the split capital investment trust ("splits") sector between September 2000 and February 2002. The United Kingdom Financial Services Authority ("FSA") and the Jersey Financial Services Commission have also been conducting their own investigations into the splits...

​Press Release - Anti-Money Laundering Standards for Existing Customers 30 June 2004 Following the issue of revised Recommendations by the Financial Action Task Force in 2003, the Commission has issued a statement on anti-money laundering standards for existing customers (available here as a PDF document). The statement requires financial services businesses to assess the risk of each business...

​The Commission has today published a statement on interviews conducted under section 21B(1) of the Financial Services Commission (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 1987, as amended. The purpose of the statement is to set out the Commission's policy on the conduct of interviews under the Financial Services Commission Law to assist a foreign authority to carry out its functions. The statement on...

​The Guernsey Financial Services Commission conducted a consultation exercise between November 2003 and January 2004 on certain aspects of hedge fund operation. It has today published a document - Hedge Funds: Flexible Approach to Authorisation Policy - setting out the main policy conclusions it has reached from that consultation exercise. The full text of the framework policy document can be...

​ The Commission has published a revised version of Appendix C of the Guidance Notes on the Prevention of Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism. Guernsey Financial Services Commission January 2004