Invest Offshore

Author: Aaron

  • Carlyle holds Qinetiq shares in tax haven

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    Investors set to make a colossal profit on their investments in Qinetiq, the former research arm of the Ministry of Defence, have registered their shareholdings in Guernsey, the offshore tax haven. According to filings by Qinetiq – which is still 56 per cent owned by the MoD – shares controlled by Carlyle, the US private…

  • Five foreigners that figure to win

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    Five foreigners – These international stocks have an edge over U.S. rivals LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — Just like that old Irving Berlin tune, what the savvy investor may find these days is that anything a U.S company can do, an international rival can do — sometimes better. Investing in European stocks year-to-date would have certainly…

  • CPM: Gold landscape radically altered

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    By Dorothy Kosich – RENO–(Mineweb.com) The “2005 Gold Survey” unveiled Tuesday by the New York-based CPM Group has concluded that several significant developments “have come together over the past year and a half to radically alter the gold landscape.” CPM found that gold mine production and average cash costs will continue to increase, the price…

  • Asia becomes haven for US hedge funds

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    A growing number of US hedge funds are setting up offshore, especially in Asia, as the maturing industry becomes increasingly global and funds look beyond US borders in a bid to boost waning returns. Bear Stearns plans to launch a $450m fund investing in hedge funds that specialise in Asian markets, according to several industry…

  • The power of the money changers

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    Foreign exchange is where politics, economics and business are quantified every second of every day Toronto — It’s 6:15 a.m. on the first Friday of the month. In a few hours, U.S. non-farm payrolls will be released, the single most influential event in global currency markets each month. On Canada’s largest trading floor, George Davis,…

  • Beijing Tianhong Turns To Foreign Investors

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    By Federica Bianchi – BEIJING (Dow Jones)–Beijing Tianhong Real Estate Development and Management Corp., a subsidiary of Tianhong Group, Beijing’s largest real estate developer, is starting to cooperate with foreign investors on individual residential housing projects after the government tightened credit resources for construction. “We are teaming up with several investors that don’t necessarily have…

  • A hedge against forex exposure

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    When Beijing announced the 2.1 per cent revaluation of the renminbi late on July 21, traders at Deutsche Bank in Singapore had to rejig their plans for the evening to set-up the hedge against forex exposure. “It was chaotic because everyone had already left the office,” says Mirza Baig, currency strategist at Deutsche. “Traders had…

  • Red China’s Wrong Moves

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    COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. – While serving on the executive board of the Asian Development Bank under the first President George Bush, I consistently called for China to “bite the bullet” and privatize its state-owned companies as soon as possible. Representatives from European and other Asian countries would just shake their heads and mutter about impatient…

  • Singapore, new tax haven for offshore investors

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    WORLDWIDE THERE are over 70 tiny tax haven destinations that offer no-tax or low-tax status. Among these destinations different jurisdictions tend to be havens for different types of taxes, and for different categories of people or companies. India and Mauritius executed the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) in 1982 with the sole purpose of mutually…