Category: Asset Protection
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Time to consider using a safe haven
With economic storm clouds gathering, is it time to start thinking defensively? Alan Wood takes a look. During a period when a terror attack is reported every week and economists are predicting a New Zealand, if not global, economic slowdown, it seems timely to readjust your investment portfolio. While a slowdown, or worse a recession,…
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Government and Income Trusts
TORONTO (ResourceInvestor.com) — Over the past few years, the Canadian equity market has been denominated by income trusts, a business structure that eliminates taxes at the corporate level and allows net income to flow to investors, where it is taxed at the personal level. For the 10-year period ending September 30, 2005, the Scotia Capital…
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Vern Hayden, CFP, Author of Getting an Investing Game Plan, to Speak at Westport Library, November 15, 2005
Vern Hayden, CFP, President of Hayden Financial Group, to speak on November 15 at 7:30 p.m. at The Westport Library. He will discuss topics from Getting an Investing Game Plan, as well as his work in progress, Who Can You Trust?: Avoiding Financial Scams. (PRWEB) October 26, 2005 — You are cordially invited to hear…
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Auditor: investors ask too much
NEW YORK — Faced with lawsuits and regulatory pressure, William Parrett, chief executive officer of one of the world’s Big Four accounting firms, says the investing public is demanding more from auditors than they possibly can deliver. Like other auditing firms, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has been on the defensive since Arthur Andersen LLP was forced…
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How to invest it?
Even a humble savings account will net £251m in interest a year, here’s – How to invest it? HOW do you invest a windfall of more than £5 billion for a man who is already a billionaire several times over? The normal concerns of a 38-year-old man — buying a bigger home, keeping up the…
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Finding Protection Through Your 401(k)
The growing use of employer-sponsored retirement plans is prompting more African Americans to invest in stocks, according to the 2005 Ariel/Schwab Black Investors Survey. In addition, 401(k) plans are helping black investors build wealth for the future and a solid nest egg for retirement. The findings are significant because they come at a time when…
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Carlyle holds Qinetiq shares in tax haven
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…
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Comfort of offshore investment
The “invest offshore” message was loud and clear the other day, after news broke that somebody might have released foot-and-mouth disease on Waiheke Island. By the time you read this, the claim may have been proved a hoax. Here’s hoping so. If that’s the case, take warning from it. If it’s still not clear whether…
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What works?
You don’t want to go to jail. You don’t want to pay penalties. But you also don’t want to pay more tax than you have to-it’s not the American way. And your sister-in-law, your golf buddy or your business partner is touting a “your CPA probably doesn’t know this, but” way to pay less. How…