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Interesting curation of Blacktower Financial Management news

Here is an interesting curation of Blacktower Financial Management web pages with financial advice and news mostly for expatriates seeking to grow and protect their wealth.

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Do you have a Final Salary (Defined Benefit) UK pension scheme?

Is your final salary scheme safe?  Are you aware that many of these schemes are seriously underfunded? What is the exact deficit of your final salary scheme? Brexit and the BHS scandal have brought the pension deficit story in to the media spotlight again. However, the issues with defined benefit schemes have been brewing for some time. The UK faces a very real pension crisis with several schemes close to collapse unless serious steps are taken to address the growing problem.

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Netherlands Ranked First for Pensions

WindmillFew financial decisions are as important to an expat as the question of how and where they invest into a pension scheme.

This is why the Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index is so useful in terms of assessing the adequacy, sustainability and integrity of different nations’ pension systems. The 10th edition of the index was recently published and makes for interesting reading from an expat pension perspective.

The top spot in the list of 34 national pension systems was gained by the Netherlands having scored 80.3 – just a tenth of a point ahead of last year’s winner, Denmark.

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