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		<title>Retirement shocker as 70 becomes new state pension age</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The likelihood is your life expectancy will have already improved in the few minutes in takes to read this article. Better diet, health care and inflation are playing havoc with economic planning as people are living longer and benefitting from higher than planned increases in pension payments. The need for taking steps to fund retirement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Austere times for Portugal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For Portugal, the question has not been so much whether austerity measures are coming, but when. With an eye watering deficit of 9.4% in 2009, Portugal’s debt laden economy has no doubt given the Portuguese government many sleepless nights as it has promised to reduce that to 7.3% for 2010. The government have predicted that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.qnups.net/austere-times-for-portugal/</link>
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		<title>Indonesia and Mauritius are touting for business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Indonesia’s Finance Minister has announced that he will be giving corporate investors a tax holiday in the hope that this will encourage extra investment. The country has set itself a target of USD 1trillion to find over the next five years, and are looking for a mixture of domestic, overseas, public and private sector money. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.qnups.net/indonesia-and-mauritius-are-touting-for-business/</link>
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		<title>Evasion, avoidance and mitigation: what is the difference?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many offshore investment decisions are driven by tax, or rather the desire to pay less of it. Paying less tax can be many means, but the terminology that is employed by tax authorities includes the words evasion, avoidance and mitigation. So what is the difference, and what is allowed? A species of fraud, tax evasion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.qnups.net/evasion-avoidance-and-mitigation-what-is-the-difference/</link>
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		<title>Malta financial authority gives itself a clean bill of health</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Maltese Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has given itself a glowing review in its annual report. Given the global economic crisis, the MFSA was especially pleased that its financial services sector had “performed extremely well.” Malta has reinvented itself recently as an innovative player on the overseas investment scene. The MFSA granted several new licences [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.qnups.net/malta-financial-authority-gives-itself-a-clean-bill-of-health/</link>
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		<title>Cheers! Fine wines are up again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A common criticism of the pre-crash economy was that people didn’t understand what they were investing in. Reports of complicated strings of deals being unravelled in financial centres all around the world did nothing for the reputation of investment banks, who had previously dazzled the markets with the complexity of their deals. Bonds and other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.qnups.net/cheers-fine-wines-are-up-again/</link>
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		<title>Ethical funds are criticised</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are your investments ethical? These days this does not just involve investments that are legitimate and appropriately taxed. Instead, so called ethical investors want to make sure that their money is only being grown in ways that are environmentally and socially sustainable. Of course, there are varying degrees of sticking to these principles. Most blue [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.qnups.net/ethical-funds-are-criticised/</link>
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		<title>3 reasons why a QNUPS can benefit you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A QNUPS can ensure that your estate gets passed to your beneficiaries in tact When the previous government put forward their pension simplification initiative in 2006, they failed to dot all of the “i”s and cross all of the “t”s. Significantly for pension savers, the government forgot to mention that certain overseas pension schemes were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.qnups.net/3-reasons-why-a-qnups-can-benefit-you/</link>
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		<title>What to expect from a QNUPS adviser</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whilst your pension is something that you may review from time to time, it is unlikely to be something that you consider everything week or month. So if you are thinking about getting a QNUPS, you will no doubt benefit from the experience of an adviser who deals with this sort of thing day in, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.qnups.net/what-to-expect-from-a-qnups-adviser/</link>
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		<title>The importance of relying on your own pension</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Where will the money that will see you through retirement come from? For just over a quarter of the respondents to a survey carried out by the Prudential, that funding would come from their partner. Whilst this may be typical of that kind of age group, a third of those who were going to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.qnups.net/the-importance-of-relying-on-your-own-pension/</link>
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