Top 10 stories of 2017
By Kirsten Hastings, 20 Dec 17
Expat taxes, Qrops shocks and DB pension transfers were major stories covered by International Adviser in the past year. Scroll through the slides below to see the 10 most clicked articles of 2017.
DeVere Group founder and chief executive Nigel Green hit back at attempts to discredit the firm’s “enviable reputation” in South Africa back in January 2017.
He claimed that his financial advisory firm was “under attack” in the country after it was discovered that a website falsely claimed its investments were underwritten by deVere.
Describing the site as “incredibly amateur”, he added: “Besides the nonsensical investments, there is, for instance, not even the correct spelling of ‘deVere’, there are multiple examples of incorrect grammar, and it is vague in a way that a professional investment firm never would be.
“Yet despite the fact it is rather crude in every aspect, there is a very real danger that it could defraud the public, as well as bring the wider financial services industry in South Africa into disrepute.”
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