On home soil your options are limited, but once you emigrate, you’re entitled to cash in and transfer your retirement annuity funds abroad. Here’s what expats need to know about…
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Many South Africans living abroad and in South Africa hear the term ‘financial emigration’ and are not quite sure what it means and are worried that if they financially emigrate…
Until recently the South African Reserve Bank used the term “blocked rand account” to refer to the special bank account allocated for your assets when you financially emigrate from South…
South African immigration to Australia is becoming more challenging due to changes to the immigration and citizenship programme in late 2017, which have made it a lot harder for expats…
FNB has recently released their House Price Index for August 2018 and the results show a strong upward trend in people selling their homes in order to emigrate. The House…
Mauritius is reporting a dramatic increase in the number of expats moving to the country after the Mauritian government relaxed the rules over property and residency. The new laws include…
The decline in South Africa’s GDP of 0.7% in the second quarter of this year indicates that South Africa has just entered a technical recession. This decline follows hot on…
According to census-based research, the Netherlands is one of the countries that are popular with South African expats, coming in at third place when it comes to popular South African…
There are many South Africans living all over the world and the reasons they have left South Africa are as varied as the countries they are currently living in. However,…
When it comes to exchange control and tax law, things can get confusing quickly. Especially when these laws change. That’s why we thought it would be useful to take a…