You wrote a will and assumed it settled everything. In France, Spain, Italy and much of Europe, it doesn't work that way: local "forced heirship" law can hand fixed shares of your estate to your children, whatever you intended. Here's how it works — and the little-known clause that takes back control.

Educating children abroad is one of the biggest costs of expat life, and one of the most predictable. International school fees climb 5–8% a year, university abroad can cost several times the home rate, and the families who cope best start planning years ahead. Here's what's coming, and how to get in front of it while you still can.

Since the strikes on Iran began at the end of February, around 30,000 Britons — roughly one in eight of the UAE’s British community — have left. Most aren’t heading home: Switzerland, Spain and Portugal are absorbing the wealthier end of the wave. The reasons are part security, part tax — and the lessons apply to anyone living overseas.

On the 13th of May, the US Senate confirmed Kevin Warsh as the new chair of the Federal Reserve in the closest vote of the modern era — and a wholesale inflation reading landed the same afternoon at nearly three times what economists had expected. The bond market noticed. Your portfolio probably should too.

From 6 April 2026, voluntary National Insurance from abroad changed in two ways. The cost change is in every headline — and for most British expats, isn't the story at all. The quieter change to who can apply at all is the one that actually closes the door for some people.

Portugal's biggest expat tax change in fifteen years happened quietly in 2024, when the Non-Habitual Resident regime closed to new applicants. The replacement is much narrower than the marketing suggests. Add in last April's UK move to residence-based inheritance tax, and several guides still in circulation are now misleading new arrivals in important ways. Here's the current picture.

Cyprus's biggest personal tax reform in years took effect on 1st January 2026, and the UK's residence-based inheritance tax regime took effect last April. Several Cyprus tax guides still doing the rounds online predate both. Here's a clean, current picture of how Cyprus actually taxes expats in 2026 — and where the older guides go wrong.

Most expats who hold a "global tracker" think they're diversified. In 2026, more than a third of the S&P 500 sits in just seven names — and three of the biggest private companies in history may IPO before year-end at trillion-dollar tags. Worth opening the bonnet.

With the Iran conflict sending oil prices surging, tariff policy in flux, and the S&P 500 sitting 7% below its recent peak, it's no surprise that investor nerves are fraying. But reaching for the sell button could cost you far more than riding out the storm. Here's what the data actually says about panic selling — and why expats have even more reason to stay the course.