As we noted yesterday, it’s emerged that UK Chancellor Philip Hammond’s unexpected 25% tax on most overseas transfers, taking effect the day after his 8 March announcement, has already had a major effect on many offshore advisory firms, some of which had been relying more on their pension transfer business as a source of income than […]
Peter Emblin, a senior executive with the Bangkok-based MBMG Group, is leaving the company to take a role with one of the company’s clients, MBMG said on Wednesday. It didn’t name the company he is joining, but a company spokesperson said Emblin is joining a family office that is “primarily based in Bangkok, with business interests […]
In our latest edition of International Investment, Helen Burggraf talks to MBMG’s co-founder about how he remains faithful to his original vision after 22 years of “blood, sweat and tears” as a wealth manager in Thailand. During the 22 years that Paul Gambles and Graham Macdonald have worked together as wealth managers in Thailand, they […]
Thailand’s Securities Exchange Commission is seeking public feedback on a number of changes to the rules having to do with initial public offerings, and the approval processes for so-called private funds (PFs) and derivatives funds (DFs). The SEC said the changes to the IPO rules are intended to prevent “disproportionate share allocation to patrons and related […]
David Shelters, a member of the corporate advisory team of Bangkok-based expat advisory specialist MBMG Group, is stepping back from his full-time role there, but will continue with the company as an external consultant, following the publication of a book on technology start-ups. Shelters’ book, his second, is called Bootstrapping Strategies for Tech Start-ups, and […]