Pondstraddler definition:

“A pondstraddler is a person with multiple citizenships who has a foot in more than one country across the Great Atlantic pond and whose heart is in both places.

Producing FREE Financial learning videos, podcasts, articles and courses in collaboration with Bermuda Island + international Luminaries, experts in finance, law, economics, taxation, risk, history, and more along with contributions from local artists, photographers, musicians, technologists, etc. for Bermuda Islanders' better money management in every-day life. 

The Founder, Martha Harris Myron,  is a born Bermudian/US/UK national,  a retired US CPA CFP® Bermuda/UK TEP holding a Master of Science in Law in International Taxation and Finance Services, author, podcaster, videographer, presenter, and an international pondstraddler finance journalist with more than 1,500 articles over 35+ years career.

  She is passionately committed to fully integrated independent international financial education learning that has been crafted from real life experience and knowledge-based expertise, having lived the life of a multinational multi-jurisdictional globally mobile citizen, crossing borders and straddling the North Atlantic Pond between Bermuda, the United States, working 50% of her international financial planning career in each of the two jurisdictions.

  She states, “I developed cross-border financial planning guidelines, matrixes, and authored more than 1,500 articles on all financial matters for local Bermuda newspapers when I discovered on returning to my island home, the extraordinary financial complexity of Bermuda’s economy, a tiny island of 60,000 + community and a dominant player in the Global Re/insurance industry. 

Bermuda is a self-contained country even though still a British Overseas Territory

• 400 year sitting Parliament
• Legislation, Tax Treaties and Acts equaling in complexity to jurisdictions thousands of square miles its size
• Constitution
• Premier and legislative
• Own currency + foreign exchange regulations
• Monetary authority
• Stock Exchange
• Major International airport
• Hospital and Self-contained health organisations
• Shipping Lines
• Four major global banks and independent investment firms
• Transportation bus and ferry government supported
• Government supported social insurance pensions and resident social support services
• Police and financial intelligence agency
• Local Militia  and more

All this economic contained within this tiny community  - that compared to small town USA/Canada/UK is astonishing!

Bermuda’s community resides in the highest cost-of-living in the world - a challenge that every individual and family meets on a daily basis.

Financial knowledge to manage every-day financial affairs is a absolute requirement today. 

This website was founded to provide topical financial information specific to Bermuda Island economic environment by Bermuda Islander, Martha Harris Myron, who has lived the life.

Click on the video by Scott Stallard Photography in Welcome to Bermuda to view the Bermuda You Don’t Know!