By wrapping fund choices in an offshore life bond, investors can bypass many tax disincentives and still obtain access to a diversity of products available offshore
It is one of those great popular misconceptions that the UK is a land where free speech is held up as one of our greatest civil rights. In fact, oppressive UK libel laws considerably restrict what can and cannot be said under the banner of free speech. This is doubly so in financial services, as the Conduct of Business and Advertising rules can turn a simple statement into a mass of contradictions, legal jargon and meaningless statutory phrases. (You have no idea how much I had to use the expression freedom of speech to get the above paragraph through my compliance officer). Similarly...
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