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Featured documents

• Buying a Swiss property.
• Banking on a bright future: Patrick Odier took over from Pierre Mirabaud as chairman of the Swiss Bankers Association in 2009. He speaks to Swiss News about the future of Swiss banking; the recent problems surrounding banking secrecy, and looming financial regulations intended to prevent future financial collapse.
• Open air: Basel 2014.
• Company pensions: Switzerland's pension system is composed of three sections, or pillars. In this article, we are going to look specifically at Pillar 2--the occupational benefit plan (Berufliche Vorsorge/BV(G) or Prevoyance Professionelle/PP) or, as it is often referred to, the company pension scheme--to see how you can get the most out of your retirement fund.
• A unique brand of democracy: Switzerland's political system lives and dies by its own brand of democracy: leaving all decisions, no matter how big or small, in the hands of its citizenry. So, is this the ultimate democracy, and is the majority always right?
• Minimising Swiss income tax: it is human nature to consider tax saving opportunities when it is too late and the tax form has landed with a thud on the doormat. So come on fellow procrastinators, there has never been a better time than now to start planning for the current tax year!(business: finance column)
• David Bittner: bear witness.
• Carsten Rubsaamen doesn't want your money.
• Sechselauten: Zurich.
• White glory.