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Category: Stocks and Bonds

  • Short Seller Speculation

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    An investor can do only one of two things: buy or sell. Establishment brokers, investment bankers, founders and stock promoters are all on the sell side to public investors: the widows and orphans. Generally, insiders acquire shares for next to free from the company’s treasury. They spend energy and money to market these shares to…

  • Protecting Your Portfolio In A Turbulent Market

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    Investment experts who predicted a turbulent stock market this year have seen their prophecies come true. One of the more recent examples came when a spike in long-term interest rates unnerved investors, sending major U.S. stock indexes on a downward clip. The volatility is expected to continue, and the dramatic ups and downs could leave…

  • Winning the Money Game

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    The Prevailing Principle to Win the Money Game The Power of Compounding Pre-Tax Contributions and Accumulations: For example, a 10% return over 30 years will produce 4 times the accumulation of a 5% return. With marginal income tax rates approaching or exceeding 50 percent, interest in tax deferral has spiked. Many are familiar with the…

  • A Foreign Account for Your IRA

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    Setting up a foreign account without Unrelated Business Income Tax (UBIT) or distribution tax problem: Self-Directed IRA If you search around on the web, you will find that there are many companies offering Self-Directed IRAs. You will find little actionable information on government regulated, registered and recognized foreign pension funds, investment accounts or brokerage accounts.…

  • Where oh where is the Millionaire?

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    Money moves around the world faster than ever. And millionaires, it turns out, are becoming just as global. Climbing stock markets and rising real estate values helped create nearly 500,000 new millionaires in the U.S. in 2014, according to one of two new reports. In one new study from global real estate consultant Knight Frank…

  • Offshore Investment Strategy for Speculators

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    Arthur Fixed has a history of making extraordinary profits in financial markets. His three most successful speculations were: Shorting the USA stock market during the 1987 crash Being long on real estate from 1994 to 2007 Shorting the Internet bubble in 2001 A new opportunity may now dramatically outdo these successes. Like all opportunities, it…

  • Top Offshore Mutual Funds

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    Offshore mutual funds is a term which generally refers to a collective investment scheme domiciled in an offshore jurisdiction. The reference to offshore, in the classic case, usually means a traditional offshore jurisdiction such as the Cayman Islands, Jersey or the British Virgin Islands. However, the term is also frequently used to include other corporate…

  • Offshore Investment into the United States

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    Sophisticated tax structuring is generally involved in the Investment activities of foreign private and sovereign investors in U.S. private equity and real estate investments, that generate effectively connected income to a U.S. trade or business (ECI). The focus of this structuring generally accomplishes several important tax and non-tax objectives. Re-characterization of income otherwise it’s subject…

  • The legal basis for a 402(b) Overseas Retirement Plan

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    A Nonqualified overseas retirement plan has characteristics that are opposite of what we have all been used to. This specific 402(b), the Regulated Asset Protection Structure (RAPS), allows for pre-tax contributions. There are no maximum contribution limits as this is a nonqualified deferred compensation tax law issue. The fact that this is precisely the opposite…