Category: ETF, Hedge & Mutual Funds

  • Invest Offshore in UCITS Funds

    What are UCITS Funds? A growing number of investors are including hedge funds and other alternative strategies within their portfolios as a way of providing better portfolio diversification during adverse market conditions, as well as potentially boosting risk-adjusted returns over the long term. However, the recent financial crisis and a number of high profile fraud…

  • Hedge Fund for Offshore Investment

    Simply put, a hedge fund groups partners together to create enough money for the fund to make high-risk investments.  The large financial base of a hedge fund creates the flexibility of participation in a larger assortment of investments and financial undertakings than other funds.  However, hedge fund participation is typically regulated strictly and limited to…

  • Growing Popularity for “Alternative” Investment

    For the average middle-class citizen investment opportunities in well-developed countries can be limited. Often investment regulations prevent even the most solvent upper middle-class citizens from investing in anything more than stocks and bonds. Often offshore investments seem intimidating and are not legal to market in many countries with high-tax bases. Private banking can require exorbitant…

  • Where to Begin with Offshore Investment

    So you’re thinking of investing offshore, are you? Isn’t it a little risky? Isn’t an offshore account for someone doing something illegal? What about taxes? Where the heck do I even start? These are all very good questions and, if you’re unfamiliar with acquiring overseas assets, the very idea can seem daunting and maybe not…

  • Offshore Hedge Funds and FATCA

    Offshore hedge funds are structured outside the United States by foreign laws. Starting a hedge fund offshore used to give several advantages to managers who only deal with domestic hedge funds. Offshore hedge funds and investors have historically enjoyed a tax-free status, although this has changed under the implementation of FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliant…

  • Road Map to Grow Your Wealth

    A Road Map to Grow Your Wealth in the Tumultuous Times Ahead! by Eric St-Cyr, of Clover Asset Management First Driver: World Population Over the next few weeks, I will be publishing a series of articles in to help investors understand what will be the Global Economic drivers for the next ten years. I will…