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The Expat Spouse as Household CFO: College Funding for Expat Kids

Aside from planning for retirement or buying a house, saving for your children's college education is one of the biggest expenses most expat familie[...] read more »
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Why Expats Need Estate Plans, and How to Get Started

As a busy expatriate working or living outside of your home country, getting an estate plan together may be the last thing on your mind. If you're a[...] read more »
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Non-Deductible IRA: A Backdoor Roth for US Expat High Income Earners

For the many US expats who are high income earners and therefore effectively shut out from making traditional deductible IRA contributions or Roth co[...] read more »
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Why Expat Investors Should Give Passive Funds a Chance

Choosing the right investment funds for your portfolio is challenging. Faced with thousands of potential fund choices from banks, brokerages, and off[...] read more »
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Creveling & Creveling Private Wealth Advisory

Red chips, BRICs, frontier markets, and now dim sum bonds―at various times, all of these emerging market subsets have been touted as the next great i[...] read more »
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Expat Case Study: Evaluating a Buy-To-Rent Condo Investment

The following case study is intended to illustrate the type of analysis and decision-making that goes into buying an investment property including ho[...] read more »
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US Expat Tax - US Tax Returns Now! ExpatFinder.com

Find professional US expat tax advisers in your area ready to help you file this year’s taxes, handle back taxes, find extensions and get you the mos[...] read more »
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Should Expats Prepay their Home Mortgages?

In many Asian countries and emerging markets, interest rates have been raising to tackle rising inflation and inflating asset bubbles. For expats in [...] read more »
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Creveling & Creveling Private Wealth Advisory

With S&P's downgrade of U.S. Treasury debt, the reigniting of the debt and banking crisis in Europe, and increased talk of a possible hard landing i[...] read more »
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Beware of Safe Havens

While volatility is always part of investing, recent market conditions have been particularly wild and unpredictable. However, many of the so-called [...] read more »
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US Expat Taxes Explained: Managing Accounts in Multiple Currencies

ThThis article will explain the US expat tax implications from holding financial accounts in various countries. read more »
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Franc, Krone, Baht, Dollar: Which Currencies Should Expats Hold?

When it comes to currency, there’s no shortage of options available to expats in terms of where to hold their savings. Many offshore banks offer mult[...] read more »
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Why a Home-Country Investment Portfolio Won’t Cut it for Expats―And What Does

If you live an expatriate lifestyle, your financial interests and obligations may be international or global. To match your situation, you want an in[...] read more »
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Are ETFs Safe for Expat Investors?

The increasing amount of alarming press emerging over exchange traded funds (ETFs) and, in particular, the link between UBS's USD 2 billion loss by [...] read more »
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Caring for Senior Parents From Afar

Caring for parents as they age is never easy, but it can be even more challenging for the expat who may be separated from family members by thousands[...] read more »
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