Teaching in Asia: a unique opportunity to save for retirement
Teaching in Asia is often viewed as the preserve of gap year students wishing to fund a year in an exotic location but, in actual fact, many professional teachers move to Asia looking for new challenges, others are expatriate spouses who are looking to further their own careers having moved for the sake of their partner. Some of the most prestigious schools operate satellite establishments in Asia including Harrow in Bangkok, Hong Kong and Beijing, Dulwich College in Singapor
Are you on track for a comfortable retirement?
Whatever your age, whether retirement is round the corner or decades away, you really should be asking yourself this question. You don’t have to search very far on the internet to ascertain that a pensions’ timebomb is ticking in almost all of the world’s developed economies. Economists are predicting a crisis in the US, Canada and Australia but apparently the UK comes top for pension-unpreparedness with the average retiree predicted to run out of money after 7 years even tho
Will your children pay higher university fees because they are expats?
As a British citizen living abroad, I had assumed that children, who are British citizens even though they were born outside the UK, choose to attend a UK university, that they would pay the same fees as those who were born in the UK and have always lived there. A little research revealed that this is categorically not so. British universities are undoubtedly feeling the pinch and face funding gaps. The vice-chancellor of Oxford University claims that the tuition fees of £9,0
A private school education: investing for your child’s future
A private school education: investing for your child’s future We all know that a private school education doesn’t come cheap but is it worth the money? Sending a child to private school in the UK for the duration of their education is now estimated to cost over a quarter of a million pounds, significantly more if the child boards. This represents a fourfold increase over the last quarter century. Whereas in 1990 a doctor would have spent around 17% of their income on private
