Category: Asset Protection

  • How To Survive The Largest Generational Wealth Transfer In Human History

    A Family-Wealth Guru Offers 4 Insights For Choosing (Or Agreeing To Be) A Trustee The greatest transfer of wealth in history is happening right now, according to a study from the Boston College Center on Wealth and Philanthropy. A staggering amount – $59 trillion – is projected to be passed down to heirs, charities and taxes…

  • Who Controls Your Retirement Funds: You Or The Government?

    Qualified Money For Retirement Has Strings Attached People make a mistake when they feel as though they’ve lost control of their qualified retirement plans – they never had control in the first place, says retirement advisor Mark Cardoza. “Qualified retirement funds – whether we’re talking about an IRA, 401(k), Contributory or Defined Benefit Pension Plan,…

  • Is Your Financial Advisor Missing Something?

    6 Missteps by a Financial Advisor That May Be Costing You There are plenty of good folks serving as financial advisors, says Mark Roberts, ChFC, FIC, who has worked in the industry for more than two decades. “Many of my colleagues form pleasant relationships with their clients and seem to really care about the client-advisor…

  • Offshore Succession Planning for American’s

    Issue: ”Sovereign Trust – new short form trust structures which present a cost effective succession planning tool with which to hold investments” Faults: Sovereign Trust – succession planning tool U.S. Tax System is Hostile to Offshore Trusts The U.S. tax system is generally hostile to foreign trusts if there is a U.S. taxpayer involved. The…

  • Recognized Private and Secret Legal Framework

    Cross-Border ”rolls” for Qualified Plans with Legal Framework The purpose is to transfer assets of a USA qualified retirement plan to a non-US foreign investment account, recognized by the IRS, without a current tax consequence. IRS recognized Tax deferred gains and accumulations from outside the USA Asset Protection by Government and by Governance Exempt from…

  • The Only Asset Protection that Governments Trust

    Asset Protection that Governments Trust The 401(k) problem is a U.S. Qualified Plan Trustee, upon his demand, would not transfer his money outside of the USA.because: The IRS has made a ruling in regards to Investing/sending money out of the country from qualified retirement plans. They have ruled against all such foreign transactions. We learned…

  • Offshore Investment Strategy of the Rich and Famous

    The offshore investment strategy used by the rich and famous (until recently), featured tax avoidance tactics based on trust law. Let’s take a closer look and analyse how these foreign trust examples take advantage of OSP. In this example, Hughes, Katz and the Durands form their trusts in order to safeguard income and property from…