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Financial Education: 8 Tips to Teach Your Kids How to Manage Money
Beacon Financial Education was created with the purpose of providing individuals with the information they need for financial control, stability and simplicity. Educating yourself and making sure you know what’s going on in the “world of finance” is a good way of showing your children how to acquire and maintain financial health. BFE provides you […]
How to financially prepare for your children’s future
Baby on the way? Congrats! This is an exciting and also somewhat overwhelming time. Being pregnant in a foreign country, with different customs when it comes to child birth and raising children, information and assistance in another language. Yes indeed, becoming parents takes a lot of preparing, both emotionally, practically as well as financially. Beacon […]
Concierge Tax Service
Jimmy Sexton, LL.M., Founder and CEO of Esquire Group, has been a leader in the international tax community for nearly two decades. After noticing the sub-par quality of US international tax preparation services, he created a Concierge Tax Service catering to discerning clients. With our Concierge Tax Service, Esquire Group’s licensed international tax consultants will […]
How to achieve financial freedom and live the life you want
Beacon Financial Education aims to help people with their financial well-being and provides individuals with the information they need for financial control, stability and simplicity. Becoming – and staying – financially independent means something different to a teenager or a student than to someone in his / her 30s starting a family or a retiree. […]
Americans Expats and U.S. Connected Persons Face Investment Challenges Across the Globe
Expats face unique financial challenges living outside their home country. Americans & U.S. connected persons face even tougher challenges with regard to their investments – many financial institutions in their new local country no longer allow U.S. connected persons to hold investment products and increasing numbers of U.S. financial institutions are closing brokerage accounts for […]
The 3 Key Items to Know when Opening and Maintaining a Foreign Bank Account
A successful stay abroad comes with lots of preparation. The longer the stay, the more the preparation. And If you are planning on putting down roots in Europe, make sure you understand the European financial system as it relates to the American version. America has tons of regulation that is different than anywhere else in […]
Staying Financially Literate – for the Old and Young
Financial literacy and a financial education go hand in hand. The truth is that understanding finances and how it affects you starts at an early age but must managed throughout time and especially as you get into an older age. While the actual understanding of financial information changes with age & time, the need for […]
3 Ways to Manage your Savings Account as a U.S. Based Expat Living Abroad
As an expatriate living in another country, you may have worked long and hard in the U.S. before beginning a journey overseas. If this is the case, you most likely accrued retirement savings in a 401k or Roth IRA. These savings programs are monumental in the U.S., with a large majority of Americans choosing to […]
A guide to currency exchange
Are you relocating? As well as moving your property and family you will also need to transfer dollars into pounds or euros. Moving is complicated enough, without fluctuating exchange rates to worry about. Setting up an account with ease and getting the best exchange rate will have a big impact on your move so it […]