Isle of Man Funds Forum 2010

This year, our Conference was focused on key issues and developments of interest to professional advisors to the funds industry, including lawyers, accountants and other key industry participants. In addition to our keynote speakers, who provided an overview of developments over the past year and their views on what the future might hold, we had two dedicated panel sessions.

The first of these looked at developments in relation to the International Finance Centres over the past year, and where the pressures from the EU, OECD and further afield will take us in the future; it was chaired by Richard Hay. The second panel session, which was chaired by Matthew Jones of AIMA, focused on the draft EU Alternative Investment Fund Manager Directive, and in particular, what impact the Directive will have on fund and fund manager domicile choice in the future.

Key Speakers:
Hon Allan Bell, MHK Treasury Minister of the Isle of Man
Jim Mellon, Charlemagne Capital
Richard Hay, Stikeman Elliot
Matthew Jones, Alternative Investment Management Association