Tax & Regulation
Best Practice | 25 Sep 17
Four countries that slash non-dom IHT bills
Four countries have long-established tax treaties that give UK-non-doms from these jurisdictions a hugely advantageous opportunity to minimise paying inheritance tax on their worldwide assets.
Best Practice | 25 Sep 17
Proceed with caution over pension transfers, FCA told
Advisers need clarity and reassurance on defined benefit transfers, the FCA has been told by the pensions industry in response to its consultation on update existing guidelines around advising on DB transfers.
Three ways the UK will go beyond EU insurance sales rules
The main UK regulator has pledged to go beyond the minimum requirements of the European Union’s new Insurance Distribution directive (IDD).
Saudi Arabia gets a new bankruptcy law
Saudi Arabia is planning to follow the United Arab Emirates in introducing a bankruptcy law to help its efforts to boost foreign investment into the oil-dependent economy, according to the Al Arabiya news channel.
Lux fund body hits back at politicised scrutiny of delegation
Growing scrutiny of European fund managers delegating portfolio management to other EU countries is motivated by “political reasons”, the chairman of the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (Alfi) told International Adviser.