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VG expands Employee Benefits team

VG has expanded its Employee Benefits team as part of a focus to enhance their offering of complex, bespoke and regular solutions for employee incentives plans.

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Jersey remains the ideal location for real estate investment structures

Jersey remains robust in the face of pressure and the industry continues to thrive, particularly for investment holding structures where real estate is a major asset class.

Ashley Le Feuvre and Trevor Norman

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Revenue Jersey ruling on Murabaha contracts

VG, working with other interested parties in Jersey, has successfully obtained a ruling from the tax authorities in Jersey that profits arising from commodity Murabaha contracts in an Islamic financing transaction are not subject to Income Tax in Jersey.

 

Trevor Norman

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VG named on Top Trust Companies 2019 list

Jersey fiduciary and administration company VG has been named as a Top Tier Independent Trust Company in the annual eprivateclient Top Trust Company rankings, one of the industry’s most prestigious directories of private-client solutions providers across the globe.

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Substance in Action 2004

In what promises to be a landmark decision, an Upper Tribunal has reversed the findings from a decision issued in August 2017 which argued that several Jersey companies administered by VG in 2004 were tax resident in the UK.

Trevor Norman and Simon Perchard, Directors

Insight

UK real estate structures – time for a health check?

Now is the time to consider submitting commercial property structures to a health check.

Trevor Norman, Director

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Waiting for the lightning bolt!

If you wait for the ‘giant leap for mankind’  you are very unlikely to recognise the ‘small step for man’ with which the journey of transformation begins....

Mark Hucker, Managing Director

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Mark Hucker

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International Savings Plans

Launched in Jersey on 1 January 2019, the international savings plan (ISP) is a new way for employers to establish a savings plan product in a highly reputable and very well-regulated jurisdiction.

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Trevor Norman

Director – Islamic Finance and Funds Group

+44 (0)1534 500418

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VG partners with Jersey Finance to highlight island's strengths in Islamic Finance

 

 https://www.jerseyfinance.je/our-work/jersey-for-islamic-finance/

 

 

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VG strengthens funds team

VG has made several personnel hires and promotions to support the development of its funds offering into new regions and asset classes. 

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Funds

Whether you are an investment manager or a sophisticated investor, your needs come first and we can tailor our fund solutions to what you need. We cherish our relationships with our clients and our experience and expertise in fund establishment and administration enable us to integrate seamlessly with your team.

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Simon Perchard

Director

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VG awarded Islamic finance hat trick

VG was recognised at the Global Islamic Finance Awards (GIFA) on 29th September 2018, when the company was named Best Islamic Trust Formation Services Provider for the third year running.

 

 

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Islamic Finance

Our forward-thinking clients benefit from our expertise and understanding of Islamic finance and culture, which result in deep and long-lasting relationships built on trust.

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Richard Fagan

Director

+44 (0)1534 712438

rfagan@vg.je

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Private Client

The head of every successful family wants to grow, protect and ultimately distribute his or her wealth. VG will partner with you and your advisers to help you achieve those aims in the most efficient and cost effective ways.

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Mark Healey

Director

+44 (0)1534 500452

mhealey@vg.je

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VG promotes Claire Malkoun to the board

VG is delighted to announce that Claire Malkoun, Director of Business Development, has been promoted to Board level, bringing the total number of VG main Board members to ten.

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Family Office

Successful families need efficient and effective help to ensure their goals are achieved. We add value by becoming a trusted adviser and an integral part of the family’s support network.

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Iain Mason

Director

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VG introduces Mental Health First Aid team and raises funds for Mind Jersey

VG has created a dedicated Mental Health First Aid team as part of its investment into employee wellbeing.

 

 

 

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Corporate

Whatever the size of your business – from lone entrepreneur or family-run business to blue chip and major international corporation – we can provide a range of administration, financial reporting and governance services that suit your needs.

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Faith value

An insight into the latest developments in Shariah-compliant alternative investments from Trevor Norman and Dominic Coyne of VG’s Islamic finance team in this month’s STEP Journal, Volume 19, Issue 7. www.step.org/journal/step-journal-april-2018-full-issue/faith-value.

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Real Estate

Whether you invest in international real estate for residential use or as an investment in a corporate or fund structure, VG is able to create and manage efficient property holding entities that are right for you.

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Employee Benefits

As the world’s fiscal position continues to change, employers are continually looking for flexible and tax-neutral structures to help reward, incentivise and retain key employees.

News

EBTs: A question of sport?

For anyone even remotely interested or involved in employee benefit trusts (EBTs), you would have to have been castaway on a remote island to miss this July’s Supreme Court judgement in favour of HMRC in relation to Glasgow Rangers Football Club.

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Structured Finance

Since the late 1980s we have worked with blue chip and multinational corporate clients to support their business needs by establishing and administering vehicles that are used in a range of capital market transactions for financing, balance sheet management or tax planning reasons.

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VG’s Ben Schofield named in ‘Top 35 Under 35’

VG is thrilled to announce that Senior Trust Officer Ben Schofield has been named in the inaugural ‘Channel Islands Top 35 Under 35’ list published by eprivateclient.

News

When is a fund not a fund?

This may sound like the first line of a joke but in fact it highlights a very real question for the fiduciary sector about how to distinguish between private client services, corporate structures and funds and whether, in fact, it makes any sense to even try to do so.

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