Five top tips for retiring abroad

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Fancy spending your twilight years away from the UK? David Fuller of currency exchange specialist Halo Financial shares five tips to consider before emigrating.

This article first appeared on Your Money. Can you move? A desire to emigrate will not always be enough. Some countries simply do not offer emigration routes for retirees. While British citizens should be able to live in any other EU country, they will need to show they have the financial resources to be self-supporting and not dependent on the welfare state of that country. This could be proof of pension or other savings and investments. They would also need to take out private health insurance. Australia is one of the few non-EU countries to offer retirees an emigration route - b...

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