Setting up and managing international pensions plans to cover local employees, highly mobile executives and expatriate workers requires expert knowledge of international pension legislation, and a detailed understanding of the tax and benefits system of each country to be covered by any plan.

Bellwood Prestbury’s international pension experts provide a unique pension service. International clients rely on our financial advisors to create cost-effective retirement and savings planning that works within local legislation, whilst enabling expatriate employees to take advantage of attractive offshore international pension schemes.

Understanding the international pensions market

Although the scope of international pensions plans are heavily influenced by legislation in your employees’ country of domicile, there are many ways in which our international pension service can help:

  • Setting up an offshore international pension plan for expatriates, in Guernsey or the Isle of Man for example, can create tax-efficient, highly flexible schemes in the expatriates’ home currency, unaffected by local legislation in the assignment country
  • A multinational pooling review by our experts can significantly improve cost and value by renegotiating terms or switching networks
  • Using multinational pooling arrangements to pull together individual national schemes, we can create significant value improvement, as long as your international pensions plans include some element of life, sickness or disability cover
  • Bringing together local and expatriate schemes in a single, easy to administer wrapper, can help reduce your administrative costs

Independent advice

Bellwood Prestbury is a fully accredited independent advisor, authorised and regulated in the UK by the Financial Services Authority (FSA). We have access to the leading quality international pension providers from all of the regulated offshore financial centres, as well as UK providers.

Get Global Cover from the experts

If you would like to set up or review your corporate international pensions plans, please call us on:

+ 44 (0) 1242 584 558

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