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The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire

And the trust is a veryslippery, complicated and devious mechanism

And the trust is a very
slippery, complicated and devious mechanism

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And the trust is a very slippery, complicated
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and devious mechanism.
Duration
8 seconds
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18
Timestamp in Movie
00:16:57
Uploaded
Oct 30, 2025
Genres
documentary
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Movie Summary

How Britain transformed from an imperial power to a financial power.
Trusts emerged, the legend has it, from the time - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:13
Trusts emerged, the legend has it, from the time
What trusts do, ultimately, is they play - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:06
What trusts do, ultimately, is they play
So the settlor, the knight in this case, - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:12
So the settlor, the knight in this case,
Nobody's gonna find anything - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:06
Nobody's gonna find anything
- [Narrator] In Britain's offshore jurisdictions, - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:08
- [Narrator] In Britain's offshore jurisdictions,
Anyone can set up a trust and act as a trustee. - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:06
Anyone can set up a trust and act as a trustee.
There are no bodies to certify that a trust has been set up. - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:07
There are no bodies to certify that a trust has been set up.
- The only persons who know about the creation - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:08
- The only persons who know about the creation
There is no financial reporting obligation of trusts. - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:06
There is no financial reporting obligation of trusts.
They're not required to put annual statements - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:07
They're not required to put annual statements
So actually trusts are, to all intents and purposes, - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:08
So actually trusts are, to all intents and purposes,
- [Narrator] Economist John Christensen - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:09
- [Narrator] Economist John Christensen
We're talking now about trillions, - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:10
We're talking now about trillions,
For tax purposes and for other purposes, - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:06
For tax purposes and for other purposes,
Everything, works of arts, gold bullion, - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:17
Everything, works of arts, gold bullion,
Now think that one through, 'cause we are talking - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:13
Now think that one through, 'cause we are talking
- Well, the Cayman Islands are among several - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:11
- Well, the Cayman Islands are among several
The countries are now required - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:09
The countries are now required
- It's important that the Cayman Islands - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:11
- It's important that the Cayman Islands
And I think this importantly reflects - The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 00:13
And I think this importantly reflects