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What If You Couldn’t Work Tomorrow? A Financial Check-In for Indian Expats in Singapore

What If You Couldn’t Work Tomorrow? A Financial Check-In for Indian Expats in Singapore

by Global Financial Consultants

By Rohit Singh Nobody plans for the phone call that starts with “the doctor wants to run some more tests” or the fall down a flight of stairs that ends in a cast and months of physio. Health scares don’t arrive on schedule. Picture this: What if one day you’re heading into the office as usual, and the next you’re lying in a hospital bed wondering how long you’ll be out of action, and what that means for everything else. For an Indian expat in Singapore, that question carries a bit more weight than it might for someone who calls…

Beyond the Numbers: 5 Key Questions Australian Expats in Singapore Should Ask About Retirement

Beyond the Numbers: 5 Key Questions Australian Expats in Singapore Should Ask About Retirement

by Global Financial Consultants

By Jarrad Brown Funny thing about retirement: most of us plan our next holiday with more care than we plan for it, even though it’s likely to be the longest one we ever take. Part of that is timing. A holiday is close enough to feel real. Retirement always seems to sit safely over the horizon, so it’s easy to tell yourself you’ll get to it later. Part of it is also that holidays are enjoyable to plan, while retirement forces you to confront questions you’d rather not think about, with no guarantee any of it works out as expected….

5 Money Mistakes British Expats Make After Moving to Singapore

5 Money Mistakes British Expats Make After Moving to Singapore

by Global Financial Consultants

By John Whittaker Moving to Singapore gives you plenty to think about. Where to live, how much everything costs, which MRT exit you should actually be using and why a five-minute walk somehow leaves you looking like you’ve run a half marathon. Your finances tend to come further down the list. That is understandable, but it can also get expensive. The UK financial system does not suddenly forget about you because you have got on a plane, and some of the decisions you make in the first few years overseas can follow you around for a long time. These are…

What Are You Really Working Towards? 5 Things That Will Make You Rethink Retirement as an Indian Expat

What Are You Really Working Towards? 5 Things That Will Make You Rethink Retirement as an Indian Expat

by Global Financial Consultants

By Rohit Singh There’s a good chance you haven’t properly thought about retirement in a while. Not really. You know it’s out there somewhere, the way you know you should probably see a dentist soon, but between work, the kids, the in-laws, the next home leave and whatever visa paperwork is due this year, it keeps getting pushed to “later.” That’s fair enough. Life abroad has a way of filling every spare hour. But retirement doesn’t wait politely for a quiet moment to bring itself up. And if you’re an Indian expat, the questions it raises aren’t quite the same…

Are you an Aussie Expat in Singapore Turning 40 Soon? 5 Retirement Decisions You Should Consider Making Now

Are you an Aussie Expat in Singapore Turning 40 Soon? 5 Retirement Decisions You Should Consider Making Now

by Global Financial Consultants

By Jarrad Brown There’s something about the big 4-0 that makes people suddenly look up from the day-to-day grind of work, school runs and weekend catch-ups and start wondering about the bigger picture. For most people, this decade tends to bring in the highest salary of their working life so far, and it’s also roughly when retirement stops feeling like a someday thing and starts becoming a project with an actual timeline. For an Australian living in Singapore, that project comes with a twist. You could end up retiring in Singapore, back in Australia, somewhere else entirely, or bouncing between…

The 5 Things British Expats Forget to Bring With Them to Singapore Financially

The 5 Things British Expats Forget to Bring With Them to Singapore Financially

by Global Financial Consultants

By John Whittaker By the time you land at Changi Airport, tax is probably the last thing on your mind. Fair enough. There’s a home to find, a new job to settle into, and a city to figure out. But while you’re busy getting used to the heat and the hawker centres, a few money matters back home keep quietly ticking along whether you think about them or not. Left alone too long, they can turn into something far more costly than they ever needed to be. Here are five things British expats in Singapore often forget, and why they’re…

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