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Aaron 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 … Read more
Investors Need To Understand Fees And Get Big-Picture Advice Regardless, Financial Planner Says Investors who count on their retirement accounts to see them through their golden years sometimes find that those savings add up to less than anticipated. One reason: Broker fees they either didn’t realize they were paying, or which were higher than need … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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, … Read more
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 … Read more
Sun Tzu Meets Jesse Livermore The people controlling corporations have insider information and can therefore trade their company’s stock at an advantage to the general public. In most jurisdictions this is a violation of criminal law. However, there are groups to whom the prohibition against insider trading does not apply, for instance, members of the … Read more