The Hansard Group develops, provides, supports and services life assurance products for financial institutions and other independent financial intermediaries around the world.

Hansard Financial Trust Limited is the Group Holding company based in the Isle of Man who administer funds topping $1.25 billion for over 1,000 financial intermediaries with clients in 170 countries.

Hansard International Limited is the international life assurance company based in the Isle of Man. Hansard Europe Limited is based in Dublin and is a European “freedom of services” life assurance company.

They are an independent, management-owned group focused purely on their own business. In some 30 years of operation they have established excellent standings with the relevant regulators as well as with clients. The executive group has more than 100 years of experience in the company. There are no other influences on activities, performance and results. They concentrate wholly on financial intermediaries in the chosen markets. It is Hansard’s commitment to build their brands.

The Isle of Man advantage

From its Isle of Man base Hansard International Ltd complies with financial regulations similar to those of the UK. Equally important, the Isle of Man has the only statutory policyholders compensation scheme of any offshore centre. Hansard International funds grow virtually free of tax. In the Isle of Man business is conducted in an environment that respects privacy.

“Freedom of Services” advantage

Every day financial advisers bring these tax and investment advantages to their clients through Hansard policies. Being based in Dublin gives Hansard Europe Ltd a significant benefit – a passport to many millions of potential clients for financial intermediaries. This is owing to the EU’s decision to facilitate the pan-European delivery of financial services from one supervisory location. Approval by a single European Union regulatory authority enables financial intermediaries to operate cross-border with one suite of multi-language, tax-favoured products.

Bringing new, customised products, advanced systems, and constant, up-to-the-minute market information to financial intermediaries all over the world, is a critical element in Hansard’s success.

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The most striking result of Hansard’s innovative approach is Hansard OnLine – a 24/7 internet service. This award-winning extranet gives an unprecedented depth of information and range of tools to help maintain an immensely effective client-servicing system and portfolio of products. Genuinely unique and thoroughly secure, it gives financial intermediaries a clear, competitive edge and working intimacy with their clients. It is the most tangible example of how they maintain a single-minded focus on our target market.

Hansard’s ongoing consultative process and market-leading provision of data and information enables financial intermediaries to make carefully considered portfolio recommendations to their clients. Every day Hansard publishes the prices of some 200 asset classes to which most of our contracts can be linked. Of these links that are rated for risk adjusted performance by S&P, approximately 80% have a Star Rating of 3 or greater within their sectors and around 20% have a rating of 4 or greater. Hansard is highly sensitive to data security, and our systems are subject to regular intrusion testing. These processes indicate how Hansard has responded to changes in the operating environment and typifies the Group’s distinctive approach to management. Like every aspect of their operation these processes are designed to support and build the businesses of financial intermediaries.

If they are successful, Hansard is successful.

Winning Ways

Over the years Hansard has received some 68 awards from Micropal, S&P and other international financial analysts, and most recently:

• International Investment ‘Best Internet Service Award 2003’
• International Investment ‘Best Internet Service Award 2004’

Standard & Poor’s Offshore Fund Awards 2004

• 1st Place over 5 years in the Equity North America sector out of 22 funds
• 1st Place over 1 year in the Equity China sector out of 10 funds.

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