Gibraltar News

The annual Cardboard Boat Race has traditionally been one of Ocean Village’s biggest crowd-pulling events. This year’s contest, on Saturday 3 September, will once again see dozens of brave mariners negotiate a tough 1,000-metre course.

Denmark may be far from tropical, yet it has produced one of the finest steel bands on the circuit – the “Steel Hammers”. The 12-piece ensemble will be bringing a flavour of the Caribbean to Gibraltar’s Ocean Village on Monday 18 July at 9pm.

This new initiative offers "an exciting product with broad appeal for the more thoughtful investor who wants to see healthy returns",

An article discussing the potential benefits of QROPS for expats living in the UAE

Chesterton’s MD, Mike Nicholls, and Lettings Manager Jacky Lyden, present a cheque for £1,000 to Liz Quinn and Kerry Peters, of Quest Insurance

As carbon professionals we wish to alert potential investors to the misrepresentations regarding the carbon credit investment opportunity..............

At first glance, 59m Calixe looked like ‘just’ another superyacht in the conveyor belt of beauties that continue to grace the waters of Gibraltar’s Ocean Village. However she was known to be a bit different for she is in fact owned by a woman.

From now on we can offer clients their own sub accounts on one of the major carbon registries AT NO ADDITIONAL COST!

Green investment opportunity for companies / brokers wishing to offer their clients additional SRI products.

Owning third place in May’s Sunday Times Rich List, Roman Abramovich has amassed a £10.3 billion fortune – £3 billion up on 2010. Amongst his assets is 162.5m ‘Eclipse’ – recently anchored in waters off Gibraltar’s Ocean Village.

Pen the dates of the Gibraltar-Morocco Rally into the diary – Friday 24 to Monday 27 June. Dubbed 'the world's most sociable yacht rally', the event departs from Ocean Village gets non-racing sailors and motorboaters together on the water.

BUYERS BEWARE! As carbon professionals we wish to alert potential investors to the misrepresentations regarding the carbon credit investment opportunity..............

We are now able to accept Carbon Credits via SIPPs (Self Invested Pension Plan) , SSAS (Small Self Invested “Pension” Scheme), QROPS (Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Plan) or QNUPS (Qualifying Non UK Pension Scheme)

Offshore IFAs are expecting an increase in QROPS business over the coming year, according to new research.

Kicking off last weekend, huge crowds gathered to take part in Ocean Village's Festival of the Seas offering a wide variety of activities from a Yacht Rally to a Dragon Boat Race and organisers even managed to book spectacular sunny weather.

Since launch in May 2010, Ocean Village’s new Premier Berths have an occupancy of an incredible 70 - 80%. For that Ocean Village can credit its keen pricing strategy with a maximum of £4 a metre charged per day for even the largest megayacht.

Four step guide to invest in Carbon Credits utilising a Single Investment SIPP

STM Group believes that the Prudential funds are the perfect complement to the QROPS market. Previous experience of investing clients’ funds with Prudential has provided STM with the confidence to offer a scheme limited solely to their funds.

On 5 May Leisure Island Business Centre, Ocean Village, was once again hosting high profile guests. 400 delegates occupied the exhibition hall-style space for the Gibraltar Finance Centre Annual Conference with an impressive roll call of speakers.

Chesterton’s MD, Mike Nicholls presents a cheque for £700, and the ‘Chesterton Cup’ to Mrs Barbara Sellors, the Event Organiser, on behalf of Childline Gibraltar.

There is nowhere better to be than Gibraltar’s Ocean Village this May. Packed with land- and water-based fun for all, the Festival of the Seas runs from Saturday 14 May to Sunday 22 May and is quite simply unmissable.

David Erhardt, Pensions Director of STM Group has designed a new Gibraltar QROPS scheme which we are pleased to announce

“Carbon will be the world’s biggest commodity market, and it could become the world’s biggest market overall” Barclays Capital

STM Fidecs, the Gibraltar-based trust company and pensions administrator, has developed a QROPS scheme that has been approved by both Gibraltar’s Income Tax Commissioner and HM Revenue & Customs...

The Gibraltar 2011 Property Market Review by Bray Properties

For British expatriates, a QROPS can be a fantastic way of getting the most from your pension. Free of UK income and inheritance taxes, it’s a flexible scheme which allows you to invest any class of asset and can be passed on to your beneficiaries.

Chesterton announce appointment of John Mckillop Smith FRICS FBEng FBIFM as Managing Director of Chesterton Property Management and Chartered Building Surveyors in Gibraltar.

An article exploring the potential pitfalls of choosing the wrong QROPS provider. The article explains the importance of choosing a fully independent Trustee with schemes in multiple jurisdictions, a solution offered by the STM Group QROPS Wrap.

Lakshmi Mittal is the wealthiest Indian according to the Forbes list of World Billionaires for 2011. Worth 31.1 billion USD it’s little wonder that he has a megayacht to match and his 80m was spotted in Gibraltar’s Ocean Village marina last week.

Chesterton Gibraltar announce appointment of John Mckillop Smith FRICS FBEng FBIFM as Managing Director of Chesterton Property Management and Chartered Building Surveyors

At 8.30pm on Saturday 26 March, Ocean Village will be joining one billion people in 130 countries around the globe in the big Earth Hour switch-off - a bold reminder that we can take personal responsibility for the future of the planet we live on.

Chesterton Gibraltar announces the appointment of John McKillop Smith FRICS FBEng FBIFM as Managing Director of Chesterton Property Management and Chartered Building Surveyors.

As the curtain comes down on another MIPIM, the first public unveiling of World Trade Center Gibraltar was deemed a resounding success. Holding centre stage on the World Trade Centers Association stand, the Gibraltar project attracted vast interest.

Guernsey was the only option for expatriates transferring their pension scheme to a QROPS. STM Group QROPS Wrap, provides multi jurisdictional QROPS with no exit or transfer fees.

MIPIM 2011 is about to descend on Cannes. Running from 8 to 11 March, the occasion gathers together key players in the global real estate industry and Gibraltar’s World Trade Center is preparing for its MIPIM debut.

Since 2006, people with UK pensions who are, or who will become, non-resident in the UK for tax purposes have been able to move their pension benefits to a Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Scheme (QROPS).

In 2010 a handful of apartments in Gibraltar’s Ocean Village marina were released back to the market. Seven sold within the first week meanwhile, across a three week period in 2011, a further three properties have been snapped up. Why? Location.

The liquidators of Madoff Securities International are selling the fraudster’s superyacht in a bid to recoup a fraction of the victims’ lost money. Currently lying in Gibraltar waters, ‘Bull’ is expected to receive offers over 3mn euros.

There are now around 100,000 foreclosed homes on the market in Spain according to Madrid-based Pisos Embargados de Bancos. They estimate this figure will triple to 300,000 in 2011. But who is responsible? The answer may lie at sub-national level.

As the £100 mn terminal nears completion, easyJet has announced its brand new route into Gibraltar Airport from Liverpool’s John Lennon. The three times a week service starting March will complement easyJet’s existing London Gatwick schedule.

Mike Nicholls, Managing Director of Chesterton Gibraltar, handed over a cheque of 1,000 GBP to Maruchi Risso JP, Chairperson of the Gibraltar Corona Society who organise the Christmas Party for Gibraltar´s deserving elderly individuals.

In a very rare opportunity, a handful of high floor two and three bedroom apartments in Ocean Village’s Grand and Majestic Ocean Plazas have been released back to the market for sale and are priced to sell from just £295,000.

Having left London’s Tower Bridge one month previously, the Big 5 Kayak Challenge team paddled and peddled almost 2,000 miles to make it to the five star comfort of Gibraltar’s Ocean Village Marina at 7.42pm on Tuesday this week.

Gibraltar’s Ocean Village has won Best High Rise Development Europe and is now in the running for the World’s Best final in November. This gives the resort the chance to become the Best High Rise Development in the World–the ultimate accolade.

Guitar lessons are now available at Street Guitar School Gibraltar.

A £30m World Trade Center (WTC) is to be built in Gibraltar to help bring global recognition for the British Overseas Territory and ensure sufficient top quality office space is available to meet growing demand.

On Monday 25 October, Ocean Village will be welcoming members of the ‘Big 5 Kayak Challenge’ team en route from London's Tower Bridge to final destination Marrakech which also signals the end of the ‘Big 5’ for 2010.

Manuel Fauste, senior private banker at SGPB Hambros in Gibraltar, handed over a cheque for GBP 300.- to Jamie Pratts on behalf of The Multi Sclerosis Therapy Centre and GBP 300.- to Jean Penney on behalf of the Dyslexia Support Group.

Manuel Fauste from SGPB Hambros won the MN Associates World Cup Competition which was jointly sponsored by Chesterton and Quest Insurance Group.

A World Trade Centre (WTC) is being planned for Gibraltar to help bring global recognition for the jurisdiction and ensure sufficient top quality office space is available to meet growing demand.