Invest Offshore

Month: June 2015

  • Tax Planning Considerations for the Purchase of a Residence in the U.S. by Foreign Buyers

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    Many factors influence a foreign buyer’s decision to purchase residential real estate in the U.S. Generally, most of these decisions tend to be driven by concerns over political and economic uncertainty in the buyer’s home country. Most foreigners do not leave their home country, family, and friends for trivial reasons. The combination of economic and…

  • Before You Buy or Sell an Offshore Business

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    Buying an accessible offshore business, or any operational business, anywhere, is often safer than starting one from scratch. As, the existing business has equipment and inventory, the offshore business is already situated at a particular location, in a favourable jurisdiction, plus the business has employees, you already have an active database of customers, and most importantly…

  • Offshore Investment Strategy of the Rich and Famous

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    The offshore investment strategy used by the rich and famous (until recently), featured tax avoidance tactics based on trust law. Let’s take a closer look and analyse how these foreign trust examples take advantage of OSP. In this example, Hughes, Katz and the Durands form their trusts in order to safeguard income and property from…

  • Global Currency Reset Speculation

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    Consider the year 1979. In the USSR, the government obstructed price of one ruble is $1.65. Soviet law forbids entry into the country with rubles, meaning tourists are forced to buy the currency at this high price. However, you decide the risk taken in defying Soviet law is worth the potential gain, buy rubles in…

  • The Federal Reserve Speculation

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    The most common form of arbitrage to remove the effect of taxation is to deal in the cash market, black market or free market. This includes smuggling and other dealings with contraband. Here, the cost of arbitrage may be very great as it can include the risk of government fines and imprisonment. There is also…

  • Great Bear of Wall Street – Jesse Livermore

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    Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1877 – 1940) was known as the “Great Bear of Wall Street”. He made and lost several fortunes in the stock market using a system he began to develop at age fourteen when he held an entry-level position at a brokerage in Boston. He analysed price and volume data and became expert…

  • The Sovereign Debt Crises

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    We Promise to Pay You unless We Decide not to Given a free market choice, very few people would buy so-called sovereign debt, i.e. government debt. That is one reason why central banks create money out of thin air and use it to buy the debt. But let us take a look at what’s happening,…

  • Short Seller Speculation

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    An investor can do only one of two things: buy or sell. Establishment brokers, investment bankers, founders and stock promoters are all on the sell side to public investors: the widows and orphans. Generally, insiders acquire shares for next to free from the company’s treasury. They spend energy and money to market these shares to…