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Updated March 28, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Investing can see complicated for expats, as many don’t know where they will be next. Whether you are in Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Singapore, Qatar or various European countries, you might not know where you will fly to next or whether you will be home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is where my expertise can come in. I help people with expat investments<\/a> that are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Portable <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As an expat, you don’t know where you will be next. The days of the career expat are largely gone. Therefore, it is essential that you have a portable solution, which isn’t linked so heavily to your current residency and can be topped up and continued globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Make use of ETFs <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Good-quality ETFs can lower your costs, and increase your performance, if you use them in the right way, with regular rebalancing and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Portfolios like the ones below, can be tailored to your attitude to risk and situation in life:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Making use of alternative investments within the same portfolio<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For a few investors, it can make sense to hold alternative investments within the same portfolio as ETFs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keeping to an 80:20 principle. 80% in safe and long-term assets like S&P500 and MSCI world and 20% in “sexier” assets which you can’t easily buy directly yourself and which most banks require $1M+ deposited to give you access to such asset classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Profitable <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Nobody can predict what will happen to markets in the years ahead, What we do know, however, is that you give yourself the best chance of success if you:<\/p>\n\n\n\n