Trends for expat jobs and benefits across Asia

Recently Hays released their The 2014 Hays Asia Salary Guide outlining the recruitment trends they foresee across Asia over the coming year. They surveyed over 2500 employers across Asia and 63% said that business activity has increased over the ...

Canada continues to attract British and Irish expats

As Canada struggles to fill job positions within its trade industries the number of British and Irish citizens moving to Canada continues to rise. With an estimated 114,000 additional trade positions needing to be filled in Alberta by 2021 alone a...

Expats are becoming more demanding of their employers

A recent survey by Cigna and National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC) has shown that expats are proving to be harder to satisfy and that this is causing a drop in employers' return on investment in them. The Expatriate Trends Study was originally r...

Shanghai proves to be the most popular city for expats in mainland China

A recent survey of 72,000 expatriates in mainland China either by in-person questionnaires or a poll run on the China Daily website has shown Shanghai to be the highest rated city followed by Beijing and Tianjin. The top ten cities were as follow...

Top ten relocation challenges for international companies revealed

  New research has shown that North America (51%) has moved into first place as the region most critical to future business success, narrowly edging out last-year's top-ranked region Greater China (49%). This research is among the findings...

Rising rents in Dubai start to outpace allowances

  While rents in Hong Kong and Singapore fall, Dubai has joined Bangkok with rents increasing on average 15% in the last year. As the central bank has imposed tighter restrictions on mortgages to try and cool the housing market the reboundi...

QROPS changes and how to roll with the punches

With the HM Revenue and Customs list due to be published tomorrow, November 15th, investors are waiting to see how updates will affect pension transfers. Since early October, several schemes across the Caribbean Islands, Bangladesh and Malaysia have ...