Fund Advisers publishes useful offshore investment guide
The Geneva-based wealth management company, Fund Advisers, has published the first in a series of offshore investment guides for clients.
With many customers now demanding clear, independent advice on this increasingly complex subject, Fund Advisers has chosen the EU Savings Directive as the theme for the first of its guides. With the aim of helping investors retain their privacy, protect their assets, and secure their ongoing financial development, the new 12-page guide provides detailed information on this recently amended directive and presents a number of ideas about how to invest efficiently “within the spirit” of it.
The European Savings Tax Directive (ESD) is one of three measures relating to tax, which together are known as the EU Tax Package. The ESD is an agreement between the Member States of the European Union (EU) to automatically exchange information with each other about customers who earn savings income in one EU Member State but reside in another (the automatic exchange of information option). The aim of the ESD is to ensure that citizens of one member state do not evade taxation by depositing funds outside the jurisdiction of residence and so distort the single market.
All Member States of the European Union are subject to the ESD. The EU hoped that non-member states, particularly those that are considered tax havens, would also sign up to the principles, if not the details, of the ESD.
Are you a solo-entrepreneur who feels overwhelmed by all the Social Media options that are supposed to help you with your business? Or do you have a nice website but don’t know how to use it to grow your e-mail list? These are just some of the issues facing “solopreneurs” such as coaches and other independent practitioners in our region.
Local entrepreneur and knowitall.ch blogger, Sarah Santacroe, is offering a free, one-hour, webinar to anyone interested in finding out more about using online marketing in their business. Through her company, Simplicity, she will talk you through the main Online Marketing channels that are available to you and will give you 3 very practical tips for each.
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Have you ever met someone going through a serious life crisis, who was managing it with incredible grace and strength, and wondered how they did it?
Niamh Kromodimedjo, Founder of Manage With Clarity, told knowitall.ch that she once had a friend in this situation, who explained that her clear, positive and empowered attitude was a result of something called “The Work of Byron Katie”. This “fluke” encounter sparked Niamh’s interest in The Work and resulted in a new career and a dramatically improved life, which she now manages with much greater clarity and confidence than before. It also helped her enormously to deal with some life crises of her own, including the passing of her father after an 18 month illness with cancer and the decision and process of donating a kidney to her sister.
Following a three-year intensive training with Byron Katie's Institute for The Work, Niamh became a Certified Facilitator of The Work in January 2012 and shortly afterwards set up her own business in Geneva, called Manage With Clarity, to use this process with her clients. Describing the key elements to us, Niamh said, “The Work is a simple, yet astoundingly powerful process of inquiry, which questions people’s beliefs about any stressful situation and enables them to see things from a completely different perspective “without the blinkers”. They also learn practical ways to develop themselves, applying what they have learned from the inquiry.”
A website helping Swiss start up companies advertise job vacancies for free has just been launched on the internet.
Called Jobooh.ch, the site will prove invaluable to new companies starting up in Switzerland, who often have limited resources and can find it difficult to recruit new personnel when faced with costs of approximately Fr. 500.- per month for one job advertisement - a typical fee for advertising new positions through jobhunters or expensive job portals.
For those looking for a new job, the site is very simple and divides jobs into two categories: “Techie” and “Non-Techie”. It is possible to see at a glance those jobs which are full-time, part-time or freelance, and also how many applicants have applied for each job via the site.
Over 150 business leaders and guests attended the inaugural British-Swiss Business Awards ceremony, held at the Hotel Beau Rivage, Geneva on Wednesday 30th November 2011, to celebrate the success of some of the British-Swiss business community's most innovative companies in 2011.
5 organisations and individuals were recognised for their contributions to business success in Britain and Switzerland, including Withers LLP who won the Company of the Year award. Most Promising Business/ Entrepreneur, was won by Avaloq UK. Avaloq recently announced that it is to set up a new Scottish base, creating about 500 jobs over the next five years.
La Cote International School in Gland won the Excellence in Customer Service award; HSBC Private Bank came away with the trophy for Corporate Social Responsibility and journalist Ellen Wallace triumphed in the category of Unsung Hero.
Videos of the 15 finalists can be viewed on the Business Awards website - www.britishswissbusinessawards.co.uk
About the British-Swiss Business Awards
The British-Swiss Business Awards were launched for the first time in 2011 with the aim of becoming the premier business awards within the British-Swiss business community. The mission of the annual Business Awards is to recognise the achievements of companies who have made an outstanding contribution towards bilateral trade and investment between the UK and Switzerland. The Business Awards are organised by the British-Swiss Chamber of Commerce and sponsored by Lloyds TSB Private Banking.
