Weighing up your retirement options
By: JOHN WESTWOOD Managing Director, Blacktower Financial Management Group financial@portugalresident.com WHEN IT comes to taking income from a pension plan at retirement, most people’s default option is to buy an
Alternatives to holiday let licensing – Part three
By: DENNIS SWING GREENE International Fiscal Consultant for euroFINESCO eurofinesco@portugalresident.com Hospedagem: the hybrid solution This is the third in a four part series examining different alternatives to Holiday Let Licensing:
Ten ways to defeat inheritance tax
By: BILL BLEVINS Financial Correspondent, Blevins Franks blevins@portugalresident.com UK inheritance tax (IHT) is a worrying matter for more and more Britons as they fall liable to this damaging tax. You
Alternatives to holiday let licensing – Part two
By: DENNIS SWING GREENE International Fiscal Consultant for euroFINESCO eurofinesco@portugalresident.com How to organise under RAU This is the second in a four part series examining different alternatives to Holiday Let
Alternatives to holiday let licensing – Part one
By: Dennis Swing-Green International Fiscal Consultant for euroFINESCO eurofinesco@portugalresident.com Ways of keeping your habitation licence THIS SPRING, for the third consecutive year, inspectors from Autoridade de Segurança Alimentar e Económica
Investment opportunity in emerging markets
By: Bill Blevins Financial Correspondent, Blevins Franks IT HAS been the norm to plump for the known and reliable markets of the US, UK and more recently Continental Europe as
New MD for Jyske Bank (Gibraltar) Limited
Christian Bjorlow (pictured) is the new Managing Director of Jyske Bank (Gibraltar) Limited. Christian, aged 40, who is married with two children, has been the Private Banking Manager in Jyske
Another death knell for banking secrecy
By: Bill Blevins Financial Correspondent, Blevins Franks UNTIL RECENTLY, you could bank on banking secrecy. You knew that if you opened an offshore account in the Channel Islands or Isle
Barclays opens branch in Praia do Carvoeiro
IN LINE with its expansion plans in Portugal, Barclays Bank has opened another branch in the Algarve, this time in the town of Carvoeiro at Estrada do Farol. Branch manager
The heat is rising with increasing interest rates
By: Raoul Ruiz Martinez Investment Advisor Finesco Financial Services Ltd. INTEREST RATE decisions by the Bank of England will already be dominating the headlines in the UK but just how