March 26, 2015
It’s a real honour to be nominated for the 2015 Ops Business Person of the Year award by FTF News. It is in recognition for my work in campaigning against the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, or FATCA.
These awards recognise the work and achievements accomplished by finance professionals, service providers, regulators and industry experts throughout 2014, and to be nominated alongside other such leaders within the financial services industry is something of
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March 25, 2015
It was announced this week that deVere Group has been helping to expose an alleged monumental investment fraud in order to protect investors and try to recover assets.
As a company we have provided information to US-based OffshoreAlert, an influential financial news service run and managed by investigative journalist, David Marchant, evidence of what we believe could be serious misconduct and gross negligence by Mauritius-based Belvedere Management Group.
It was announced this
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March 25, 2015
The government’s mismanaged and rushed pension reforms could see up to half a million people affected as a result of the imminent unlimited access to pension pots.
With the general election looming, which in my view is intrinsically linked to the government’s haste to roll out these changes, individuals will be given unrestricted access to their pension savings in just two weeks’ time. The government’s mismanaged and rushed pension reforms could see up
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March 19, 2015
This year’s Budget, last of this current parliament, has been branded in today’s Telegraph as ‘a triumph of electioneering over economics.’
And I can see why. The Chancellor wheeled out a series of policies aimed at the over 55s - who are those most likely to vote in the election and those who are, coincidentally, most likely to vote Conservative. This year’s Budget, last of this current parliament, has been branded in today’s Telegraph as ‘a triumph of
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March 17, 2015
It’s St. Patrick’s Day and, in a timely fashion, Johnny Isakson, a Georgia-based Republican Senator, has come out in praise of Ireland for nurturing economic growth through its competitive tax policy.
Mr Isakson, a member of the U.S. Senate finance committee which draft U.S. tax laws, commended Ireland’s 12.5 per cent tax rate and encouragement of businesses to establish operations in the country.
It’s St. Patrick’s Day and, in a timely fashion, Johnny Isakson, a
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March 11, 2015
It’s a step in the right direction to see the financial services industry almost universally backing proposals by the UK’s Work and Pensions Committee for just one regulatory body to oversee pensions.
Most people in the industry are welcoming the plans for a single regulator that were again yesterday put forward by the influential group of MPs. The plans had been previously been mooted and subsequently rejected by the government back in 2013.
It’s a step
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March 4, 2015
deVere Group has recently published results of a survey which reveal that an increasing number of Britain’s over-50s are tempted by a move overseas.
This latest poll showed that 59 per cent of those surveyed have ‘seriously considered’, ‘are thinking about’, or ‘would be tempted’ to live abroad during their retirement. This is just under a 10 per cent rise on the results of the same deVere poll carried out 12 months ago.
deVere Group has
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