Category: Asset Protection
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British Columbia, Unceded Lands & the Coming Legal Storm
The rain fell straight and cold across the coast, the way it always does when the Pacific has something heavy to say. Out on the unceded lands of British Columbia, a courtroom ruling has stirred up an old question that Canada once believed it had settled with order, patience, and civility. But the decision cuts…
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The De-Dollarization Domino Has Fallen: Embrace the Great Reset
You can feel it in the markets. Smell it in the air. The money is moving. But this time, it’s not just a rotation of capital—it’s a regime change. Welcome to the New Money Revolution. For decades, the U.S. dollar sat on the throne of global finance, not because it was flawless—but because it was…
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Challenges with SWIFT GPI Transfers
The SWIFT Global Payments Innovation (GPI) network was introduced with the promise of revolutionizing cross-border payments—bringing speed, transparency, and traceability to what had long been a notoriously slow and opaque system. While it indeed represents a significant improvement over legacy SWIFT messaging, investors, institutions, and offshore operators continue to face real-world challenges that limit its…
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Asset Protection for a Large Windfall: Turning Sudden Wealth into Long-Term Security
A large financial windfall—whether from the sale of a business, real estate, stock options, crypto profits, inheritance, or even lottery winnings—can be both exhilarating and overwhelming. Sudden wealth often creates immediate exposure to taxation, liability, and predatory claims. Without a structured plan, what feels like freedom can quickly turn into fragility. Asset protection is the…
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Federal Payments Go Fully Digital on September 30, 2025 — What It Means & Why It Matters
On March 25, 2025, the President signed Executive Order 14247, titled “Modernizing Payments To and From America’s Bank Account.” (The White House) This EO mandates a sweeping shift: the U.S. federal government will largely phase out paper checks and paper-based payment systems, moving toward electronic payments — both for disbursements (payments made by the government)…
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The Best Asset Protection Strategies for Real Property in the USA and Canada
Owning real estate in North America can be an excellent way to preserve and grow wealth. But for international investors and high-net-worth individuals, the question is not only how to buy property—but how to hold it for maximum protection, reduced tax exposure, and ease of reporting. Asset protection is as much about structure as it…
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The Mobility of Wealth: From Tax Havens to Real Estate
One of the enduring strategies for concealing wealth has been the quiet transfer of financial assets to offshore destinations. Today, it is estimated that US$12 trillion of global financial wealth is held in tax havens—equivalent to around 12% of global GDP. This practice is not spread evenly across society; it is sharply concentrated at the…
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The Best Offshore Asset Protection Structures for Royalties and Intellectual Property
In today’s global economy, intellectual property (IP) is often more valuable than physical assets. Royalties from patents, trademarks, copyrights, software, music, or licensing agreements can generate steady, predictable cash flow. Yet these assets are also highly vulnerable—exposed to litigation, tax erosion, political instability, and even inheritance disputes. For high-net-worth individuals, entrepreneurs, and corporations, structuring IP…
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Strategies for Canadians to Keep and Grow Digital Assets Offshore
For Canadian investors, digital assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and tokenized private investments represent not just a new class of wealth, but also a fresh frontier in offshore diversification. With Canada’s evolving tax landscape and tighter regulatory oversight on crypto holdings, safeguarding and strategically growing digital assets offshore has become an attractive option. The key…