Continuing Series Bermuda Investment Primer Chapter 3: Bonds
When is a bond not a great investment? When the bond issuer defaults on repayment of the principal.
Investors value stocks based upon thei...
Bermuda Investment Primer Chapter 2 1 Stocks
On Wednesday, Facebook, supported by a retinue of investment bankers and advisers, filed papers with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission f...
Right, so in spite of everything or perhaps because of everything in your career, you have arrived at a retirement decision. Make that semi-retire, because if you are like many close-to-retirees inter...
The Bermuda National Pension Scheme (the Plan), while brilliant in conception and as currently in force, is not meeting the needs of older workers in our public workforce during this unprecedented de...
This is an update for Bermudian nationals (and others, UK, Canadian) who are dual citizens with the United States; Bermudians who overstay their United States presence triggering US residency for US i...
This is Part Three of a pension/retirement series based upon two hypothetical gentlemen (John Contribore and George Benefine), both aged sixty and ready to retire. For background, see Part One, Define...
Christmas is over. You are still basking in the good feeling of family celebrations, wonderful gifts, and neighbourhood spirit of giving. But, now it is back to the ordinary, mundane chores, and the d...
We humans know that we are anything but ordinary creatures. We experience emotions galore.
According to respected psychologist Paul Ekman, the basic emotions are: sadness, happiness, anger, fear, disg...
On December 3, we followed the hypothetical cases of two gentlemen, Mr. John Contribore and Mr. George Benefine, employed in Bermuda in two different sectors of the economy.
They are both age 60, both...
Tax news specific to Bermudian residents with United States passports, i.e. dual citizens of the US/other countries and US citizens living abroad, who for various reasons such as ignorance of US tax l...