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Financial consultants: Blackden Financial

Marie Joséphine Guillet — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:54:37 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Blackden is a boutique of Swiss-based financial advisers whose work includes expat mortgages and primary & secondary residences, pensions and taxation. Based in Versoix.

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Know-it-all

Marie Joséphine Guillet — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:46:20 +0000

GenevaLunch.com The Know-it-all Passport book, which comes out every two years, provides a substantial collection of addresses and information about where to find things in the Lake Geneva region. It’s now part of a larger offer, with the web site providing information and calendars for activities, events, and local businesses, with companies invited to submit their [...]

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English Forum

Marie Joséphine Guillet — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:36:46 +0000

GenevaLunch.com The English Forum is Switzerland’s largest social network, with forums/discussions on numerous topics. Use the search engine to find what you’re after. A strength is that it is active in all parts of Switzerland, although this can make it harder to find information for a particular region until you’re used to using the site. The [...]

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Glocals.com

Marie Joséphine Guillet — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:34:13 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Glocals.com is a social network that started out in Geneva and now operates further afield, although the Lake Geneva region remains its heart and soul. The local nature of the site, with city groups, and the events organized by the owners over the years have made it a hit with people, especially newcomers, looking for [...]

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Swiss social security, leaving Switzerland

Marie Joséphine Guillet — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:37:04 +0000

GenevaLunch.com The Swiss government provides two useful brochures for people working here who are considering relocating or retiring elsewhere. Both are in pdf format and can be downloaded: Social Security in Switzerland, January 2010 update Leaving Switzerland and Moving to an EU or EFTA country Additional information is available from the Swiss-EU Liaison Office.

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How to work out your Swiss salary

Marie Joséphine Guillet — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:16:32 +0000

GenevaLunch.com It’s difficult in Switzerland to know what anyone earns, which makes it hard for many people to work out what their salaries should be, compared to the market. Some helpful official online tools: canton Vaud has a salary calculator, in French, as does Geneva, and the Union Syndicale Suisse has one, in French, German and [...]

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WWF pocket guide to climate change

Marie Joséphine Guillet — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:22:13 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Easy to understand, nicely illustrated, quick to download: the WWF pocket guide to climate change gives you the basics, painlessly, of a subject that will remain in the headlines for the rest of 2009 in the weeks leading to the Copenhagen meeting to replace the Kyoto Protocol on carbon emissions (if you aren’t sure you [...]

Switzerland: environmental issues and statistics 2009

Marie Joséphine Guillet — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:12:28 +0000

GenevaLunch.com A handy pocket guide from the Swiss government, published 1 September 2009, with Swiss environmental statistics and information on 17 environmental topics.

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Geneva Communicators Network

Marie Joséphine Guillet — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:40:54 +0000

GenevaLunch.com The Geneva Communicators Blog was recently updated to the GC Network, with a new web site and team, more events and activities for 209. The new site still carries news and views from corporate communicators in the Lake Geneva area. This is the voice of a group of corporate communications professionals in the region, an [...]

Financial crisis numbers

Marie Joséphine Guillet — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:58:03 +0000

GenevaLunch.com The global financial crisis has been happening so fast that it’s hard to keep up. The BBC’s special pages have a useful timeline with graphics. Also useful: its financial crisis jargon page.