Providing comprehensive life insurance coverage for expat employees isn’t just an employee benefit—it’s a strategic investment in workforce stability, risk management, and corporate responsibility. This is especially important if you send employees to countries where they are at higher risk from their occupation, environment, infectious diseases, remoteness of the region, and if they are in a potential or current conflict zone. Read more
We often get the question asked by our corporate and non-profit clients who have a diverse expatriate population abroad. Whenever a human resources manager or global mobility executive is building a global rewards strategy, they have to invariably think about setting up or managing an existing global benefits program that includes international medical care. Read more
Expat talent is valuable, expensive and critical to retain if your company is either expanding overseas or already employing people abroad. Almost all global rewards and global mobility managers and senior executives get this, but often, many multinationals don’t put the work and resources into implementation. Read more
One of the most challenging aspects of human resources is sending employees abroad for long-term work assignments. Global mobility managers are a specialized subset of human relations and global benefits teams. Part of a duty of care for international employers is creating insurance plan for expat employees strategy and policy for expatriate employees. Read more
For any company, looking after the health and well-being of your number one asset, your employees, should be a key priority. This is especially true for SMEs (small or medium-sized enterprises) as they seek to not only retain expat talent, their current staff members but also seek to attract new talent to their global workforce. Read more
Paying expat employees is increasingly more common as companies expand their businesses into global markets. There is not one straightforward way to ensure you’re paying your expat employees given that laws are different in every jurisdiction. We have created a list of international payroll tips for expat employers to try and facilitate the process of global payroll.
Business has become even more global over the past ten years, and for most companies, it means that business travel overseas is an absolute necessity. Your clients are no longer local, they are global, and you need to keep in touch with them through email, phone, Skype, chats and of course, travel. Experienced business travel professionals are always sharing their tips on how to make their corporate journeys as smooth and productive as possible. We have gathered seven business travel tips for 2018 to share with our globally mobile employees and associates.
There are many exciting opportunities for students to gain international experience while working towards their degree or for high school student groups going abroad on short school trips. Many universities provide either an exchange program or field school, as well as short-term summer programs. If you wish to spend one or more terms on an external program such as volunteering overseas, international employment, school group travel, international Co-op, etc., it is critical to making preparations, such as obtaining a travel medical coverage. In this article, we will provide seven tips for students and school group leaders when preparing for a short or long-term trip overseas.
As an extremely experienced global insurance brokerage with an extensive client list from around the world operating in the mining resource space, TFG Global and it’s Expat Financial division will be attending and exhibiting at the PDAC 2018 convention in Toronto from February 4th till the 7th, 2018. As a proud member of the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC), we are excited to participate in the event where we hope to meet other suppliers and executives from the mining industry who will be attending from around the globe.
This urgent medical claim from last night (Jan 17th, 2018) is why you should use our firm for your group expat insurance needs:
We received an email from the HR Manager for a group client of ours in the Middle East at 8 PM last night our time – an employee’s spouse in Europe was in urgent need of an operation. The Global Mobility Manager informed us that the surgery was a life and death situation, but the hospital was outside of the large and well known global insurance company’s network – which is the largest in the world.
