Category: Stocks and Bonds

  • 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…

  • 6 Key Oil & Gas Discoveries of 2013 – Who’s Worth Owning

    The pace of oil and gas exploration is frightening, and discoveries are weekly, if not daily, with volumes investors would only have dreamt of a decade ago. With each new discovery, it becomes difficult to keep track of the playing field, and even more difficult to rank the potential. There are also a lot of…

  • Benefits of a Luxembourg Offshore Investment Account

    Why there has never been a better time to Invest Offshore As a result of media saturation of tax evasion with a negative spin on offshore banking, plus a constant perceived threat of the disintegration of the Euro Zone, due to news from Greece, Spain and Cyprus, many people have adopted the idea that anything…

  • The Fight Between Greed and Gravity

    Time to choose between greed and gravity I have the best job in the world; there is no doubt about it. I get paid to manage other people’s money. It is stressful and humbling. It can also be energizing, as there is no better feeling than being thanked by someone who we helped build a…

  • Is Cyprus telling us to Buy Tech, Sell Financials

    Is Cyprus telling us to Buy Tech, Sell Financials Over the last few weeks I have published a series of articles to help investors understand what will be the global economic drivers for the next ten years. These three drivers were: Growth of the world population Global Debt Monetary Easing & Inflation Now that we…

  • Why Does Offshore Investing Get a Bad Rap?

    It’s a good question, isn’t it? It seems most of the attention devoted to offshore investing in the mainstream media is skewed in the negative, and thanks to a perhaps undue amount of scrutiny and criticism, the general public has come to view any offshore investment as tantamount to shaking hands with the devil, at…

  • Emerging Markets and Long-Term Offshore Investing

    Emerging Markets and Long-Term Offshore Investing Some investors look at a long-term offshore investing strategy as too risky: get in, get out and be done without getting messy. We all know, however, it’s the sort of long-term planning where you’ll make the greatest financial gains. And if you’re already considering offshore investments as an addition…

  • The Good and the Bad of Offshore Investing

    Offshore investing is often demonized in the media. The vast majority of offshore investment is, in fact, perfectly legal. Depending on your situation, offshore investing can offer many advantages. Offshore investment refers to a wide range of investment strategies that take advantage of the benefits that are offered outside your country of origin. There is…