Profiles & Comment | 11 Dec 12

Singapore, like Hong Kong, is continuing to benefit from the uncertainty and instability elsewhere in the financial services world, while at the same time struggling to cope with such side-effects of this success as inflation, currency appreciation and a shortage of affordable housing. Helen Burggraf reports.

Tax & Technical | 11 Dec 12

A proper understanding of the inheritance tax regime for discretionary trusts will help you organise the investment bond withdrawals needed to pay tax due.

People Moves | 11 Dec 12

Jool Capital Partner has appointed Hansard International’s former market development manager for Indonesia, Ben Breese as its business development manager for South East Asia.

Retirement | 10 Dec 12

Sovereign has launched a new Malta-domiciled QROPS, its first based in the jurisdiction, as well as a “lite” version of its Gibraltar based Calpe Retirement Benefit Scheme.

Tax & Regulation | 10 Dec 12

Full transparency remains an elusive goal in most countries around the world, according to the latest annual report by Transparency International, which notes that 2012 has been a year of backward movement in many places, including parts of the Eurozone worst hit by the financial crisis.