Gibraltar
Retirement | 23 Mar 17
Gibraltar names date for Qrops test regulations to go live
Gibraltar’s government has revealed that it will put in place personal pension regulations “on or before 31 March”, enabling the jurisdiction’s Qrops to retain their status.
Best Practice | 21 Mar 17
Gibraltar ‘in danger’ of losing Qrops status
Gibraltar must put in place a system for regulating personal pensions in just over two weeks to enable the jurisdiction’s Qrops to retain their status and continue to operate in the market.
PEOPLE MOVES: Cigna, Lombard Int’l, Woodford
Global health insurer Cigna has boosted its distribution platform in Asia Pacific with two senior hires. Lombard International Assurance has appointed a head of France, while Woodford has raided his alma mater Invesco Perpetual to find a head of third party relationships.
Castle Trust launches multi-jurisdictional Rops
Gibraltar-based Castle Trust Group has launched the Centurion Retirement Plan featuring recognised overseas pension schemes (Rops) in Gibraltar and Malta that allow free switching between the schemes and jurisdictions to suit clients’ changing needs.
Gibraltar must ‘be very ferocious’ in Brexit talks
Former UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has said Gibraltar must be “very ferocious” in its demands ahead of the Brexit negotiations, warning that the British overseas territory’s fate “will be at the very bottom” of prime minister Theresa May’s list of priorities.