Cayman investment management & governance

Senior-led Cayman solutions, built around your structure, not a platform.

From CIMA-regulated investment management appointments to independent directors, Economic Substance and BVI Approved Manager support: one experienced team, scoped to what your fund actually needs.

Cayman investment manager

A CIMA-regulated Cayman presence, without building one yourself.

Artemis holds the Cayman investment management role while your onshore team continues its agreed investment functions. Discretion, oversight and governance sit in Cayman; the functions delegated to your team are defined in writing. A clean delegation framework everyone, fund, counsel, service providers, can point to.

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What Artemis does

Senior-led Cayman investment management and governance, scoped to your structure. Below are the areas we typically support, though no two engagements are the same. Speak to us about what you’re looking to achieve.

Cayman investment manager

Our lead offering. A CIMA-regulated Cayman investment manager that holds discretion and oversight, with agreed investment functions delegated to your onshore team.

Independent directorships

Board-level judgement for a broad range of entities, with operations spanning investment funds, digital assets, finance and leasing, and established corporate groups. Real engagement, documented decisions and challenge where it’s needed.

Economic Substance directorships

Cayman-resident director involvement scoped to the relevant activity, so governance, decisions and records genuinely sit on-island.

Economic Substance solutions

Practical help assessing, implementing and evidencing Cayman substance: activity, people, premises and core income generating activities, sized to the entity, not the checklist.

BVI Approved Manager support

Cayman-based support for Cayman funds using a BVI Approved Manager, including the appointment process and ongoing obligations, where the structure fits and counsel confirms the route.

Outsourced investment & risk

Independent investment and risk oversight, including functional separation of portfolio and risk management where required, with proportionate reporting and records.

Common questions

Common questions

A few of the questions managers, counsel and service providers most often bring to us before an engagement. If yours isn't here, ask us directly.

A Cayman-based investment manager may be appropriate where a structure needs Cayman presence, discretionary investment-management responsibility and oversight that can be evidenced. The point is not to build a full local team where one is not needed, but to create a workable Cayman role that fits the fund, the manager, counsel and the wider service-provider structure.
Artemis has two directorship offerings: independent directorships and Economic Substance directorships. An independent directorship can help fill a board with specific skills, experience and judgement. An Economic Substance directorship is similar in governance standard, but the role is performed in Cayman to help meet Cayman Economic Substance requirements for the relevant activity.
Cayman Economic Substance is not a black-and-white checklist where an entity simply scores enough points. The focus is whether the entity has appropriate Cayman activity, expenditure, people and premises, governance and records for the relevant activity.
A BVI Approved Manager may be relevant where a manager or adviser is operating below the applicable thresholds and wants a lighter-touch regulatory route than a fuller licensing framework. It can be particularly relevant where a structure uses a Cayman fund, but the investment manager is structured as a BVI Approved Manager.
This may suit an individual, sponsor or investment team launching a fund or running a structure that needs experienced risk oversight or outsourced CIO-style input without hiring a full internal function. Artemis can provide senior investment and risk input where the client wants practical review, manager selection support, due diligence reviews or independent challenge.

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Tell us about the structure. We'll tell you what fits.

Honest advice from the people who'd actually do the work, including when the answer is that we're not the right fit.

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