Disclosure
Tax & Regulation | 19 Aug 14
Criminalised offshore regions increasingly
The impacts of HM Revenue & Customs plans to criminalise offshore tax evasion are looking increasingly severe, as nearly 40% of advisers with clients holding offshore assets claim their customers now prefer to invest into non-disclosure jurisdictions.
Tax & Regulation | 9 Feb 14
australia govt to seek to water down
Financial planners in Australia will “once again be able to earn commissions for selling a wide range of investment products” if a government plan to “water down investor protection laws” goes through, one of the country’s leading financial publications reported over the weekend.
hk commissioners letter reignites issue
A letter sent last week by Hong Kongs Commissioner of Insurance to Hong Kong’s insurance industry practitioners has sparked surprise and frustration among many independent insurance brokers and IFAs, with its implication that commission disclosure is to be fully compulsory within two months.
skandia broker in hk commission case win
Royal Skandia and a local insurance broker have won a High Court case in Hong Kong over commission disclosure that is seen as having potentially significant, and positive, repercussions for the jurisdictions insurance brokerage and advice industries.
Tax & Technical | 27 Jun 11
Building an all-weather IFA business
FPI’s Hong Kong sales director analyses the benefits commission disclosure has brought to IFAs