Offshore Banking, Offshore Investment & Financial News For Expatriates

A lead article in the Daily Mail’s Money section has the headline ‘Four million expats want to come home as savings and income plunge along with the pound.’  Whilst some of the facts and statistics cited and quoted in the piece are close to accurate, the most hard hitting, attention grabbing of the lot, i.e., the fact that 4 million Brits are about to repatriate, is so incredibly untrue it’s actually laughable.

However, when someone pens and publishes a piece such as that, it is scaremongering and serves to put people off their dream, or feed all those who like to do down anyone who has ambition with lies to spout and rubbish to disseminate.

4 million Britons are not planning on repatriating – and as we will show, we have very good reasons for hating scaremongering headlines such as the one in the Daily Mail.  People are still moving abroad to find a better life, it is still possible to afford a home overseas, and if you are abroad and struggling financially, there are options and alternatives to repatriating.

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Are you a so called ‘trailing spouse’ or accompanying partner, are you moving abroad for the sake of your family, have you taken time out of your career to help your husband and family move abroad to find a better life?

If so, you’re a woman who cares more about others than yourself – and this is absolutely typical of most women.  We will put our careers on hold to help our husbands – and we’d put our whole lives on hold if it helped our children…

However, the trouble is, in so doing we damage our long-term financial health.  So, in this report I’m going to show you how we can stop expatriate women getting the worst financial deal, without undermining their integrity or asking them to turn their backs on their family.  If you’re a woman or you’re the significant other of an expat woman, this article is for you – it will show you how expatriate woman can still get a better deal when it comes to retirement than their onshore counterparts.

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There are those of us who move abroad to find better paying employment opportunities, who realise that as an expatriate we become less restricted by the fetters put upon us in our own home nation where everything seems to be regulated, even the amount we can perhaps earn…

However, building up a successful career can take time – what’s more, some of us are moving abroad simply to find a better work-life balance, or even to retire.  So in other words, we are all likely to be in very different financial positions when we relocate.  This fact alone has to be taken into consideration when penning an article such as this, because I’m about to talk about the expatriate insurances you shouldn’t leave home without.

However, I am also aware that not everyone can afford health insurance, life insurance and travel insurance…so I am going to look at what you really need as a bottom line, how you can cut your costs, and answer the question posed by this article, namely ‘can you afford to go abroad uninsured?’

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