For weeks now the liberal world media dutifully has been repeating dire threats against so-called “tax havens” from the big spending, high taxing, anti-tax competition likes of Germany’s Merkel and France’s Sarkosy.

Even President Obama allowed his less than impressive Secretary of the Treasury to make some noise against tax havens.

The orchestrated battle of words hurled at offshore financial centers got so heated that British PM Gordon Brown felt obliged to demand for “the end of tax havens.”

This belated anti-tax haven baloney comes from Her Majesty’s first minister whose government is in charge (and has been for a decade) of the United Kingdom’s many tax havens in its overseas territories (Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, the Turks & Caicos) and its Crown Dependencies (the Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey and the Isle of Man), plus Gibraltar.

Does the Rt. Hon. Gordon believe that the

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Bermuda Hedge FundsBermuda Hedge Fund Guide

Here is a short collection of articles on the hedge fund industry in Bermuda. I am always looking for more valuable online tools and resources to add to these geographical hedge fund guides to the hedge fund industry. If you have a white paper or PowerPoint that I can include here please send me an email and I will post it for everyone's benefit.Hedgeweek Special Report on Bermuda Hedge Funds Services 2008. This report features several articles touched on various aspects of Bermuda’s Hedge Fund industry. It also analyzes the trends of globalization and institutionalization of the hedge fund industry. Regulations regarding funds’ performance, such as the level of manager access and transparency and investor protection are emphasized.Island

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Financial NewsJason Corcoran in Moscow 16 June 2008 The Russian securities market has attracted substantial inflows from western investors in the past few years but the infrastructure to support the growth is only slowly catching up.The average daily volume of transactions of Russian stocks stands at $6.1bn (€3.9bn), which includes $5bn traded on domestic stock exchanges with the remainder traded on foreign exchanges, according to investment bank Troika Dialog. Investors have recognised some improvements over the past few years, but still regard dealing in Russian securities as a transaction, settlement and custody risk. Most Russian investment offerings to non-Russian investors are domiciled in the Cayman Islands or in Guernsey, and often administered in Ireland. Global custodian State Street administers Prosperity Capital and Hermitage Capital, the two largest equity funds investing into Russia, from Dublin. Damian McEvoy, ...

Financial NewsJason Corcoran in Moscow 16 June 2008 The Russian securities market has attracted substantial inflows from western investors in the past few years but the infrastructure to support the growth is only slowly catching up.The average daily volume of transactions of Russian stocks stands at $6.1bn (€3.9bn), which includes $5bn traded on domestic stock exchanges with the remainder traded on foreign exchanges, according to investment bank Troika Dialog. Investors have recognised some improvements over the past few years, but still regard dealing in Russian securities as a transaction, settlement and custody risk. Most Russian investment offerings to non-Russian investors are domiciled in the Cayman Islands or in Guernsey, and often administered in Ireland. Global custodian State Street administers Prosperity Capital and Hermitage Capital, the two largest equity funds investing into Russia, from Dublin. Damian McEvoy, ...