Overstretching overseas

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As more companies look to employ people overseas, Julian Webb looks at the challenges this can place on pension arrangements

Globalisation is a complex web of patterns and trends that, because of our natural desire to simplify things, we neatly wrap into a one-word concept. It might even be a reason to have a productive conversation, right now, with those clients who have employees in more than one market. You may be able to save them time and money. Globalisation's impact has been huge and, depending on which camp you pitch your tent in, has either worsened or bettered the world's economic ills. One trend that is undoubtedly a result of globalisation is the rise in the numbers of mobile, sometimes nomadic, emp...

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