{"id":10003,"date":"2009-03-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"row-over-salmond-advisers-hedge-fund-in-the-caymans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2009\/row-over-salmond-advisers-hedge-fund-in-the-caymans.html","title":{"rendered":"Row over Salmond adviser&#8217;s hedge fund in the Caymans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Times Online &#8211; Alex Salmond is under renewed pressure over his links with Sir George Mathewson, the former HBOS chairman, after it emerged that Sir George&#8217;s investment group&#8217;s hedge fund is running businesses from the Cayman Islands. <\/p>\n<p>John McFall, the Labour chairman of the Treasury Select Committee, questioned Mr Salmond&#8217;s continuing use of Sir George as his chief economic adviser yesterday following the revelation. <\/p>\n<p>Mr McFall said: &ldquo;I am highly surprised that someone who appears to be avoiding paying tax in this country is an adviser to Alex Salmond. It is not in Scotland&#8217;s interests and sends very mixed messages to both bankers and the Scottish public.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/uk\/scotland\/article5828255.ece\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Times Online &#8211; Alex Salmond is under renewed pressure over his links with Sir George Mathewson, the former HBOS chairman, after it emerged that Sir George&#8217;s investment group&#8217;s hedge fund is running businesses from the Cayman Islands. John McFall, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8384,7330,7506,752,507,6473,2919,7980,6471,8385,7982,8387,8386,7981,6279],"class_list":["post-10003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-alex-salmond","tag-cayman-islands","tag-economic-adviser","tag-hbos","tag-investment-group","tag-john-mcfall","tag-labour","tag-mathewson","tag-mr-mcfall","tag-mr-salmond","tag-revelation","tag-scotland","tag-scottish-public","tag-sir-george","tag-treasury-select-committee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}