Help will be on hand for Emerald Financial Group Ltd. clients at an information session held at the Chamber of Commerce today.

The session, which will take place between 5.30 p.m. and 7.30 p.m. in the Chamber boardroom, will be hosted by Bermuda Offshore Investment Services Ltd. (BOIS) to assist all the Bermuda-based investment firm's customers with their accounts.

Petitions to wind up Emerald Capital International Ltd., Directrade Ltd., Emerald Financial Ltd. and Emerald Investment Management Ltd. were launched in Supreme Court last month.

But KPMG Advisory Ltd., agents for the Official Receiver, which is working on the winding up of Emerald Financial Group is "hopeful" that many investors will get their money back.

In a criminal case heard in Magistrates' Court in July, Antoinette and David Bolden were charged with stealing more than $300,000 from Emerald Capital International Ltd.

For more information contact BOIS on 296-7247 or email info@bois.bm