Jersey’s finance industry is going on an overseas charm offensive in the last quarter of 2005 to highlight new business opportunities to fin...

Jersey’s finance industry is going on an overseas charm offensive in the last quarter of 2005 to highlight new business opportunities to finance and legal professionals in key markets around the world. New York, Hong Kong and Singapore have been targeted along with a seminar in London in which hedge fund professionals will be invited to hear about Jersey’s growing emergence as a location for hedge fund business. The visits are to be organised by Jersey Finance and will bring together industry representatives from the banking, funds, trusts, legal and accountancy sectors. The programme will begin on September 27 with the London seminar creatively titled “What you Always Wanted to Know about Hedge Funds in Jersey, But Were Too Busy To Ask.” It will be hosted by Phil Austin, chief executive of Jersey Finance and Gary Clark, chairman of the Jersey Funds Association. The Jersey participants on the panel will be Helen Hatton, deputy director general of the Jersey Financial Services Commission, Martin Paul, a partner at Bedell Cristin, Wendy Dorman, director of tax, Deloitte, and Richard Boleat, principal, Channel House Group. The New York visit will take place in the week commencing 3 October and will include a Jersey Finance presentation and reception. An industry delegation will then visit Hong Kong and Singapore for the first time during the week commencing 28 November. "The delegations will showcase the range of financial services and will do so confident that the island offers an ever more competitive business environment, with enhanced regulations implemented or planned to back up the skills and proven expertise of our legal and financial services organisations,” said Mr Austin in a statement.