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Aaron Usually banking goes hand in hand with offshore company formation. For legitimate tax minimisation purposes, it is customary to have a corporate bank account residing in a country different from the country of incorporation. This is commonly practised. For instance, a Singapore company is ideal for international business because company funds remitted outside of Singapore … Read more
If you trade in the Forex market and you’re not using risk management you are sooner or later going to be out of business. No Forex trading system will do you any good without a good risk management system. For most students learning about Forex trading managing risk is all about placing stop loss orders … Read more
Jersey has climbed two places, retained its position as the highest rated offshore international finance centre and enhanced its global reputation, according to the latest Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI) released on Monday 26th September 2011. Overall, Jersey is placed 21st in the competitive rankings, which are published every six months, ahead of Guernsey in … Read more
GOLD SETTLES AT $1683.00 FOR THE WEEK Gold rallied today as global traders and investors reacted to more credit rating cuts, this along with higher crude oil prices sent speculators into the precious metals as an alternative “safe haven” investment choice. It also appears that physical buying has increased from India and China which has … Read more
No Such List of Offshore Banks Exists – There is no recognized list of the top offshore banks. What is the criteria one would use for such a list is a good question? Examples of rating criteria would be age, total assets, strength of loan portfolio, management, track record, currency, country of location and licensure, … Read more
Hong Kong has once again topped the Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom Index, which measures the degree to which the policies and institutions of countries are supportive of economic freedom. According to the report, Hong Kong scored highly across all of the five categories which are used to calculate index scores, including size of government, legal … Read more
In these unclear times you should consider a few things before moving your capital to just one offshore location. Institutional Diversification: Many savvy investors have offshore accounts in more than one location. Just as you wouldn’t want to have all of you money in one bank, even if you think it is stable (Lehman Brothers) … Read more
When a portion of your portfolio is diversified into commodities on days like today there should be no need to panic. Crude traded to a nine month low today dragging prices very close the $80/barrel mark. It’s been painful but we highly doubt a 20% reduction is justified. The pundits say it is demand destruction … Read more
Before August 2009, some expatriates used bank accounts in countries that had banking secrecy laws, the most well-known was Switzerland. However, at the end of August of that year, Switzerland signed an information release agreement that crumbled one of the stoutest legs of international banking sovereignty principles upon which many expats relied. Since that benchmark … Read more