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Aaron How to Rationally Invest in Gold Here are some basic tips and advice for investing in gold coins, so you can learn to make the right, rational decisions when it comes to your yellow precious metals. If you are going to get the most out of your gold buying experience, then you have to make … Read more
There are three basic reasons why investing offshore is typically better than investment in an individual’s country of origin. These reasons are a higher rate of return on investment, lower taxation, and less paperwork Offshore investments typically provide a higher rate of return on investment, lower overall taxation, and less cumbersome regulation than investment in … Read more
Following our introduction to QNUPS, we examine the critical considerations you need to keep in mind when assessing whether a Qualifying Non-UK Pension Scheme is the right offshore and expatiate pension solution Lee Byers. As discussed in our earlier report Lee Byers’s Independent Guide to QNUPS, Qualifying Non-UK Pension Schemes are potentially highly tax efficient … Read more
Like death and taxes, the price of oil is always with us. And like taxes, it may be President Barack Obama’s worst nightmare at election time next year. Among forecasters, there is a sharp division between those who see an inexorable rise in the price of oil and those who believe it will stabilize about … Read more
INCIDENT: On 7 December, gold hit an all-time high above US$1,425 per ounce (London morning fix), after having risen from under $300 per ounce at the beginning of the millennium and from just over $700 per ounce only a little over two years ago (all figures in current dollars). SIGNIFICANCE: While the recent spike in … Read more
Uranium is a very unusual sector. For one, it’s small. So small, that at one point in history top-producing nations like Canada and France tried to form a uranium cartel to control prices for the metal. The “uranium OPEC” failed. But production today is de facto controlled by a handful of companies. Consider this. The … Read more
QUESTION: Do UNALLOCATED metal assets held under the Perth Mint Certificate Program need to be reported on the IRS TDF90-22.1? I recently purchased your book “Reporting Foreign Financial Accounts” as well as the 2010 Update and searched both of them for an answer on this point, and have also searched your online Q&A looking for … Read more
LONDON, May 13, 2010 – Maitland which administers more than $70bn on behalf of 80 fund manager clients was ranked the third fastest growing hedge fund administrator globally in a recent international survey by hedgefund.net. Assets under administration grew by $21bn over the past year and have more than doubled over the past three years. … Read more
How Law Changes Have Drawn in More Foreign Real Estate Investors by Nadine Davis ~ Thanks mostly to new laws regarding the foreign ownership of land in Australia, there are more offshore investors in Queensland property than ever before. The Foreign Investment Review Board changed laws concerning foreign ownership in late 2008. Before that, offshore … Read more