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Today sees the publication of the 2019 eprivateclient Guernsey Report – a whistle-stop analysis of the private wealth sector in Guernsey

Winckworth Sherwood has promoted ecclesiastical lawyer Darren Oliver to become a partner in the firm

A global recovery in equity and real estate markets has resulted in a record global high net worth population in 2012, according to the latest World Wealth Report produced by Capgemini and RBC Wealth Management.

Jersey’s finance industry has reported a positive first quarter of 2013 right across its different sectors, with the levels of bank deposits rising and the value of funds being administered increasing to their highest level in four years.

An 84-year-old grandmother of four from Florida has won the largest unshared jackpot in US lottery history - a prize of $590m (£383m).

Financial Planning Standards Board (FPSB), owner of the international certified financial planner (CFP) certification program, has reported that the global number of CFP professionals grew by more than 8,000 last year (for an annual growth rate of 5.7 percent), from 139,818 at year-end 2011 to 147,822 at year-end 2012.

The late artist Lucian Freud has expressed his gratitude to Great Britain for welcoming his family when they arrived in the country as refugees, by leaving a treasured Corot portrait to the nation under the Acceptance in Lieu scheme.

Having children has never been more expensive, with the cost of bringing up a child in the UK until he or she is 21 at an all-time high of £222,458. This is more than £4,000 up on last year and £82,000 (58 percent) more than ten years ago, when the first annual Cost of a Child Report from protection firm LV= was published.

Speaking this morning (24/01/2013) at the 43rd World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, British Prime Minister David Cameron reiterated the need for unity between jurisdictions in the fight against tax evasion and aggressive tax avoidance.