Lifting The Burden

Putting in place the right solution for administering your estate can ease the pain and pressure for your family. Throughout your lifetime, you are likely to have accumulated a substantial estate of property, investments, cash and valuable belongings. When you die,...

Generation Rent

In The Islander’s home port of Mallorca there has been much discussion of late about the regional government’s restrictions on short term holiday rentals in the regional Capital of Palma. The problem they seek to address is the rapid rise in monthly rents...

Don’t Miss The Best Days

The recent spike in volatility highlighted once again that attempting to time the market is difficult and can be costly. A month or so on from February’s correction, the bull run for equity markets has entered its tenth year. But it would be wrong for investors to...

Marine Salvage Law

Frequent question: is it true that if you help anybody at sea you have a right to a compensation or even a percentage of the vessel? Along the history the salvage has been considered a question of seamanship honour and when a person was in peril it has been always...

Big Data Is Your Data

Facebook is in trouble again. Founder and king of the billionaire geeks Mark Zuckerberg shunned his trademark jeans T-shirt and trainers in favour of suit and tie and began apologising to anyone who was ready to listen to him, which turned out to be virtually...