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Analysis: Reasons to be cheerful for offshore bonds into UK
As the headlines focus on the twists and turns of the Brexit talks, is there reason to be cheerful about offshore bond sales into the UK, and could there even be a renaissance for this long-standing HM Revenue & Customs-approved tax wrapper?
Offshore trusts hit by fresh anti-avoidance measures
Anti-avoidance measures targeting the tax treatment of payments and benefits from offshore trusts will make the use of such vehicles less appealing, says FPI’s Brendan Harper.
Best Practice | 8 Sep 17
No safety net for life policy part surrenders
HM Revenue & Customs will be able to review “disproportionate” tax bills slapped on people who withdraw money from their life policies but “it is crucial that this isn’t seen as a safety net”, warns Old Mutual Wealth tax and financial planning expert Rachael Griffin.
PEOPLE MOVES: Old Mutual Wealth, Enhance Group, LGT Vestra
Wealth management firm Old Mutual Wealth gears up for its proposed demerger and listing on the London and Johannesburg Stock Exchanges next year with a flurry of top level appointments. While Jersey-based wealth consultancy Enhance Group gets a new chief executive and chairman.
Five UK insurers facing FCA review over customer treatment
Old Mutual, Prudential and Abbey Life are among five companies still under investigation by the Financial Conduct Authority over concerns about the transparency of exit and penalty charges in the firms’ closed-book life insurance policies.