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Brett Evans

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1123 total appearances

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The Money Puzzle
Moving money around the world - Your expat explainer

I don't think the jurisdiction that you can make a lot of money and have a high paying salary exists anymore.

The Money Puzzle
Moving money around the world - Your expat explainer

And the reason being is what happens is the reason the jurisdiction is cheap is because the salaries are cheap.

The Money Puzzle
Moving money around the world - Your expat explainer

So you get that natural inflationary effect.

The Money Puzzle
Moving money around the world - Your expat explainer

That's what happened in Dubai.

The Money Puzzle
Moving money around the world - Your expat explainer

In Dubai, it was a lifestyle that was cheap.

The Money Puzzle
Moving money around the world - Your expat explainer

You didn't need to be paid a lot to have a very comfortable life in Dubai.

The Money Puzzle
Moving money around the world - Your expat explainer

Obviously, the salaries went up, the cost of living went up, and that's what we've seen globally.

The Money Puzzle
Moving money around the world - Your expat explainer

And it's sort of, you know, with this digitization of the world,

The Money Puzzle
Moving money around the world - Your expat explainer

People are very clueless now in terms of I can go here.

The Money Puzzle
Moving money around the world - Your expat explainer

And what we're now starting to see is people sort of work in one location and live in another, and they sort of commute in a digital sort of way to sort of get the best of both worlds.

The Money Puzzle
Moving money around the world - Your expat explainer

So we do see, for example, people living in Portugal under a very favorable visa for Australians, but working overseas in, say, Saudi, and they commute back and forth.

The Money Puzzle
Moving money around the world - Your expat explainer

So people have to become more clever now to really try and get those –

The Money Puzzle
Moving money around the world - Your expat explainer

There's true deals.

The Money Puzzle
Moving money around the world - Your expat explainer

Look, to me, it is you want to accrue wealth in the country and tend to return to or retire to.

The Money Puzzle
Moving money around the world - Your expat explainer

The reason for that is you not negate, but you reduce currency risk.

The Money Puzzle
Moving money around the world - Your expat explainer

Murphy's Law always says that if you hold all your wealth in euros,

The Money Puzzle
Moving money around the world - Your expat explainer

living in Europe and you're about to move back to Australia, something will happen on that day.

The Money Puzzle
Moving money around the world - Your expat explainer

You've had to make that transfer and currency risk is a big thing.

The Money Puzzle
Moving money around the world - Your expat explainer

We saw that with Brexit back in 2015.

The Money Puzzle
Moving money around the world - Your expat explainer

If you're going overseas for three to five years, dollar cost averaging your money back to Australia, whether it's monthly or quarterly transfers, you got to get a smoothing effect in the FX rates, which means that you're not going to kill it, but you're not going to lose it at the same time when it comes to managing that risk.