Even before you moved to Hong Kong, you may have heard about the highly unaffordable rent in the city, which always ranks top among the world’s most expensive housing markets. This perennial problem has become so extreme that a resident needs to spend 19.4 years without any other expenditure in order to be able to...

As a globe-trotting expat you have many financial matters to monitor – particularly your taxes. But you must also cope with spending and saving in foreign currencies, writes Iain Yule. The itinerant expat needs to juggle a number of currencies quickly, efficiently and cheaply. So a number of offshore banks have...