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July 2014: How to protect your South African inheritance when living in Australia?

"It's important for South African expats to emigrate in order to protect their South African inheritance"... is the advice of ...

July 2014: The smart way to move your personal wealth abroad

For our forefathers to have moved their assets around there was no mountain high enough...they loaded the ox wagons, gathered ...

July 2014: 60 is the new 40. Retiring is a yesteryear concept

Cost of living, coupled with longer life expectancy and the continuing depreciation of the South African Rand relative to major ...

June 2014: Home is where your money is!

South Africans are lekker people who live and work in really lekkerplaces - London, New York, Perth, Ontario and Hermanus ...

June 2014: Where there’s a will, there’s no complication

"It's important for South African expats in Australia to have an Australian will"... is the advice of Estate Planning Specialist ...

June 2014: The red kow says…”Nòù gaan ons braai!”

There's only one nation on the planet that speaks "braai"...It's theone passion South Africans share - irrespective of where they ...

June 2014: South African Mobile Bank Account – less than $10 a month

If you're one the lucky fishes living and working abroad who have still to decide exactly where in the world ...

June 2014: Where there’s a will, there’s no complication

Our new website - more than just a facelift. It now explains, in simple English, what it is we do, ...

June 2014: Why should I?

Thousands of South African expats have asked the question: why should I use finglobal.com? The short answer: we're South Africa's ...

June 2014: South Africa’s got talent

At finglobal.com we may not be able to sing but we know how to make South Africans happy... It's with ...

April 2014: Steve Hofmeyr tour June 2014

finglobal.com and Grant Kaplan Immigration are the proud sponsors of legendary South African musician Steve Hofmeyr's 2014 Canada and USA ...

April 2014: Grant Kaplan Immigration

Business Owners If you own a business in your home country or are employed in a senior capacity you may ...

April 2014: your PPS advisory service

finglobal.com is an accredited advisor of Professional Provident Society(PPS). If you're a PPS member, living and working abroad - we're ...

February 2014: Will I lose my citizenship?

Is the fair, and generally first, question people want an answer to when financial emigration comes up for discussion... The ...

February 2014: Blocked rand account is good!

While these may sound like words from Confucius' mouth let's clarify a generally misunderstood concept. Let's start at the beginning ...

February 2014: Make Tax Treaties work for you

Also known as double tax agreements, they're designed to resolve issues involving double taxation of active and passive income. Their ...

February 2014: Too good to be true

And inevitably too little too late because the money boomerangs inevitably break down just before investors expect a great return! ...

February 2014: What is your tax status?

As an expat, still holding assets and other interests in South Africa, it's in your interest to know your SARS ...

February 2014: Living in the USA?

Under the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) agreement, governments of 42 countries will share information on taxpayers' bank ...

February 2014: Don’t delay. Arrest investment decay!

Many South African expats left their pensions, policies and other financial assets behind when they upped and offed to go ...

February 2014: A most remarkable South African

3 March 2014: a memorial service held in honour of former South African president Nelson Mandela at London's royal church, ...