Held Captive! The Closely Held Insurance Company

Captive Insurance – An Integrated Tax and Risk Management Solution [typography font=”Open Sans” size=”11″ size_format=”px”]by Gerald Nowotny[/typography] Captive or closely held insurance companies have been around a long time, at least fifty or more years. For most of their existence, captive insurance companies lived in relative anonymity and were mostly in the domain of public … Read more

Hong Kong Fund Management Growth Sets Record

The annual Hong Kong Fund Management Activities Survey (FMAS) released today by the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) shows that the combined fund management business in Hong Kong hit another record high of $16,007 billion as of the end of 2013, representing year-on-year growth of 27.2%. The latest survey indicates that Hong Kong continued to be a … Read more

San Juan – The New Havana?: Making the Move from Miami to Puerto Rico

[typography font=”Open Sans” size=”11″ size_format=”px”]by Gerald Nowotny[/typography] I lived in Miami for about ten years during the time that I went to law school at the University Of Miami School of Law, i.e. the Harvard of the South! I also worked in Miami while I went to law school at night and have a good … Read more

Land, Apartments, Office space, Hotels, Commercial and Casinos

To the investor looking for more than a one percent (1%) yearly return on money deposited with a bank or a negative interest rate as now proposed by the ECB, we know a firm offering the following. Medium- and long-term real estate investment opportunities with historical and projected income substantially above the rates offered by … Read more

Explanatory notes offer clues to merchants on EU VAT compliance

THE EU’s Explanatory Notes on the new VAT Directive for 2015 provide all the information that merchants need to ensure their EU VAT compliance. Compliance essentially boils to – as per the Explanatory Notes – “the relevant taxable persons would need to be able to process personal data of their customers in order to prove … Read more

Time will tell that FATCA is a “hammer blow” for the U.S. economy

History will ultimately teach us that America’s far-reaching new global tax law, which came into effect on Tuesday, is a “hammer blow for the U.S. economy”, warns the founder and chief executive of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organisations. The stark warning from Nigel Green of deVere Group, which has $10bn under … Read more

Why Invest Offshore?

What if you realized that you too could have the key to opening the lock that has been holding back your very best financial future? The very key to create the building blocks for your financial destiny; a destiny controlled by you and nothing external. Whether you looking for ways to start bolting together individual … Read more