Invest Offshore

Category: Stocks and Bonds

  • What you need to know to invest online

    —

    by

    Aaron
    in

    In the heyday of Net stocks and do-it-yourself investing, the question wasn’t whether you traded stocks online, it was with whom. It seemed like everyone was doing it. By the time the market peaked in March 2000, there were 12 million to 15 million online brokerage accounts, and more than a third of all trading…

  • Foreign Brokerage Possibilities

    —

    by

    Aaron
    in

    Last week, I received the following request from Beijing: A question: you mention technologies that enable regular investors to invest globally. Are you aware of a brokerage that offers investors with $30-50K accounts, say, US, Canada, Japan, HK, Singapore, and Thailand stocks at internet broker prices? A discussion of inexpensive ways to directly invest globally…

  • Venture capitalists see golden opportunity in China

    —

    by

    Aaron
    in

    Venture capitalists across Silicon Valley are falling for China. Tom Shields, partner at the Woodside Fund, sticks a teach-yourself-Mandarin CD into his car player as he heads to his office in Redwood Shores. Down the Peninsula, Joseph Tzeng, partner at Crystal Ventures, packs for another trip to Beijing. He’s teaching himself to skip breakfast and…