Gibraltar: Wealth & Asset Management

A lot of us will have had the feeling of having spent the last 20 years on a fast-paced treadmill. Life has been a constant ‘busy'.

Much about the way business is done has changed since the budget a few months ago, and it would be easy to overlook the structural changes announced.

Our history is sometimes not what we think it is, nor as simple as it is portrayed. Let me provide one important example and some commentary around it.

An Excluded Property Trust is brought into being by a valid and legally binding Trust arrangement by which a person, not domiciled in the UK...

Last year, the Gibraltar Government introduced the Private Trust Company Act 2015, which will no doubt prove an especially attractive proposition for Family Offices.

So, The Gibraltar Magazine has completed its twentieth year of continuous publication. Two decades would be an impressive achievement in almost any epoch but, given the digital tsunami that has swept over the publishing terrain in this particular era, it is most definitely something to celebrate.

As professional licensed Trustees, FORM-A-TRUST (GIBRALTAR) LIMITED have the ability to combine integrity, sound Trust knowledge, administrative skills and flexibility. FORM-A-TRUST has a fiduciary duty to its clients that must be balanced against the considerable responsibility and strict rules to be adhered to for both avoidance of any abuse of that confidence, and an application of the stringent controls imposed on us by our Regulators. As Trustees, we have a duty of care to the Beneficiaries

"During the course of 2009 Gibraltar met the OECD’s requirements in relation to the number of TIEAs it needed to have in place so as to be white listed by the OECD as a jurisdiction committed to meeting its international requirements.

There is a mystique which surrounds swap contracts due to lack of knowledge or available information. By explaining the basics of swaps, including how they work and what their purpose is, I hope this will help to clarify them.