By Mark Colton at BWCI mark.colton@bwcigroup.com “No bank maintains sufficient capital to pay all its depositors at once.” Like a tabloid journalist’s headline, “CoCo pops” was inevitable, albeit a million miles away from the sugary breakfast cereal. “CoCo”s are a type of investment, and some of them have imploded spectacularly. What are CoCos? A “CoCo” is… Read More »
Anna Gray We are delighted to announce the appointment of Anna Gray as a director within our Guernsey fiduciary business. Anna has extensive experience in the pensions and trust industry. She brings with her a wealth of knowledge and experience, with over 15 years’ practising as a lawyer in the UK and subsequently Guernsey. During… Read More »
By Michelle Galpin at BWCI michelle.galpin@bwcigroup.com “there are some concerning trends emerging.” Covid news still features prominently in the headlines on a regular basis, despite it being more than three years since the first Covid lockdown was announced. The Continuous Mortality Investigation (“CMI”) analyses the death data in England and Wales published by the Office for… Read More »
By Mike Freer at BWCI mike.freer@bwcigroup.com Guernsey’s Secondary Pensions system is edging closer to being launched. After the States debate was unexpectedly deferred for 6 months from May to November last year, a draft of the Secondary Pensions law¹ was finally debated and agreed at the end of 2022. This was followed by an… Read More »
By Mark Colton at BWCI mark.colton@bwcigroup.com “The sheer scale of the problem caught pension schemes off guard” The now infamous “Mini Budget” in September 2022 sparked chaos in UK financial markets. The headlines were filled with dire warnings of pension schemes becoming insolvent, yet many schemes’ funding levels have actually benefited substantially as a result of… Read More »