Retirement

Retirement | 20 Sep 13

British expats are embracing social media and digital apps as a means of sorting out their finances, with 75% using these platforms for practical purposes such as currency conversions and 38% making active use of banking apps, a new survey reveals.

Retirement | 18 Sep 13

Two UK MPs have agreed to help expat pensioners in their latest fight to gain the right to have their state pensions increased in line with inflation, the way they are for pensioners who remain in the UK.

Retirement | 12 Sep 13

Sovereign has launched two Isle of Man-based QROPS, making it the only pensions trustee with a QROPS in Gibraltar, Malta and the Isle of Man.

Retirement | 7 Sep 13

A group of financial advisers, pension consultants and others is discussing the creation of an international code of conduct for those who advise on QROP schemes.

Retirement | 20 Aug 13

A group representing British pensioners abroad has called for the UK to be suspended from the Commonwealth until its members are handed inflation-linked rises to their state pensions, the Daily Telegraph is reporting.