A team from Guernsey Finance has been taking part in the Val des Terres Everest Challenge to achieve three aims.
They set out to improve their fitness levels, stay connected while working from home and raise funds for the Smile for Georgie Foundation.
Team members have been spending their lunchbreaks scaling Le Val des Terres and challenged themselves to complete as many laps as possible in an hour.
Guernsey’s ‘pioneering work’ in the sustainable finance sector has made it the jurisdiction of choice once again for Gresham House, with the specialist alternative asset manager launching its second sustainable infrastructure fund in the island.
Gresham House British Sustainable Infrastructure Fund II LP (BSIF II) has secured a £100 million first close and has a target fund size of £500 million. It is a continuation of the first BSIF infrastructure fund and seeks to invest in sustainable infrastructure solutions that directly address key environmental and societal challenges.
Henry Freeman recently joined We Are Guernsey as Strategic Adviser alongside other non-executive and advisory roles. In this article he reflects on what keeps Guernsey’s finance industry at the vanguard of finance centres globally.
As an investment manager and then an investment banker, I’ve spent the bulk of my career in London but have also been based across the Channel Islands at various points and now settled in Guernsey.
While many of us in the Northern hemisphere were winding down in December, WE ARE GUERNSEY’S South Africa Business Development Representative Grant McLeod was as busy as ever. In his latest blog, Grant provides an update on his activities in the run-up to Christmas…
Over the last few weeks of 2021 I’ve been focusing on what more I can do to promote Guernsey in the region, as well as the usual numerous business development meetings and introductions with Guernsey and off-island service providers and potential clients in South Africa.
In my opinion, the most effective way to do that is face to face, so it was great to be able to host two (socially-distance and masked) networking breakfasts in Cape Town and Johannesburg at the end of November.
Guernsey Finance has strengthened its Strategy & Technical team, appointing Henry Freeman as Strategic Advisor.
Henry started his role towards the end of 2021 and will work alongside the promotional agency’s Strategy & Technical team, Executive team, and the Board of Guernsey Finance, assisting with high level strategic matters.
He has held several senior and board level roles over a 20-year career in investment banking, fund management and fintech in London and the Channel Islands.