Category: Economics

  • An American in Paris (or Shanghai or Tel Aviv) – Part 2

    Using Tax-Advantaged Investment to Minimize U.S. Tax Reporting Requirements (Legally!) Overview If you are an American living overseas, the walls are closing in on you quickly. If your foreign bank hasn’t already closed your account, don’t hold your breath because it is probably coming quickly. A large number of excellent articles have covered the implementation…

  • Why Americans Should Consider Investing Offshore

    In the wake of Romney’s recent political attack by Barack Obama, it is evident that Americans are being fed the image of offshore investing as a devious act rather than one of asset protection. While this has been an ongoing phenomenon since the dawn of political debate, it is also a tool which the Democrats…

  • Offshore IRA – What do you need to know?

    People wanting to diversify their assets into foreign jurisdiction are a common phenomenon these days. If you are seeking to do the same, you should know that this is a rewarding decision. However, there are many misconceptions that exist about the way you want to accomplish this. If you want to take control of your…

  • Axiom Legal Financing Fund

    Uncorrelated Alternative Investment The Fund: The Axiom Legal Financing Fund provides short fixed interest loans to approved British law firms to finance specific litigation cases and matters of a non-litigious type, such as divorce. Loans are concentrated on the consumer market but the fund does provide finance for commercial cases. However, the fund will only…

  • Hong Kong’s position as China’s global financial centre

    Following is the speech by the Chief Executive, Mr Donald Tsang, at the luncheon hosted by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Berlin, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and the Swiss-Hong Kong Business Association, in Zurich, Switzerland, today (January 27, Zurich time): Dr Moser (Kurt Moser – President of the Swiss-Hong Kong…

  • G-SIFI Designation: Scarlet Letter or Veiled Opportunity for Global Banks?

    New York, NY / Philadelphia, PA (PRWEB) January 11, 2012 – In November, global banks watched intently as international regulators identified and announced the largest, most globally connected financial institutions. With the global systemically important financial institution, or “G-SIFI,” designation comes a marking that the bank is too big to fail, as well as a…

  • Bank Collapses or Bank Runs in America’s Future?

    Bank collapses or bank runs are common through history. The U.S. lost about 80 banks this year but depositors have been safe, but that may change. Are Bank Runs Possible in the U.S.? Right now Greece is experiencing bank runs because the Greek population knows the Greek banks are in big trouble. Approximately 80 banks…

  • Fresh Approach to Private Offshore Banking

    When you imagine private offshore banking it may involve a Swiss bank account or an ultra-secret Cayman private bank account nestled in beachy isolation. But to really achieve that safe haven of wealth that neither law courts nor governments can touch you may need to think outside the box. Today’s reality is that we are…

  • Total World Wealth

    The Credit Suisse Research Institute publishes the Global Wealth Report (world wealth), which finds that the global wealth currently held by 4.4 billion adults has increased 72% since 2000 to reach USD 195 trillion. Driven by robust economic expansion in the emerging markets, the institute estimates that global wealth will grow 61% to USD 315…