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  • Diversify Your Capital to more than One Offshore Jurisdiction

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    In these unclear times you should consider a few things before moving your capital to just one offshore location. Institutional Diversification: Many savvy investors have offshore accounts in more than one location. Just as you wouldn’t want to have all of you money in one bank, even if you think it is stable (Lehman Brothers)…

  • Commodities serving as Diversification

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    When a portion of your portfolio is diversified into commodities on days like today there should be no need to panic. Crude traded to a nine month low today dragging prices very close the $80/barrel mark. It’s been painful but we highly doubt a 20% reduction is justified. The pundits say it is demand destruction…

  • Income and Tax Issues for the Expat Employee or Business Owner

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    Before August 2009, some expatriates used bank accounts in countries that had banking secrecy laws, the most well-known was Switzerland. However, at the end of August of that year, Switzerland signed an information release agreement that crumbled one of the stoutest legs of international banking sovereignty principles upon which many expats relied. Since that benchmark…

  • Offshore Banking by Mobile Phone

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    BCN International Bank (Cayman) Ltd leads the Offshore Banking industry with strategic move to iPhone Setting new standards in enterprise mobility, BCN International Bank today confirmed that it has adopted the iPhone as its Smartphone of choice, one of the first and biggest corporate entities in the offshore banking industry to do so on such…

  • Forex Brokerage: EU or Offshore

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    Every entrepreneur looking to start up a forex brokerage should first decide the jurisdiction in which the headquarters of the business will be based before proceeding with other issues. This involves a lot of prepatory work and is one of the crucial decisions that a forex startup needs to take, since it also has a…

  • Liquidity Liquidation

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    The big money appears to be in liquidation mode in an attempt to have some dry powder to be prepared for what next week brings. Oil’s decline was minimal but damage has been done as prices closed below the 40 day MA. We anticipate a trade back to $94 in September and would be on…

  • Dubai Property Market News

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    According to many industry professionals in the Middle East, the Dubai Property market is finally on the road to recovery. This has certainly been helped by the huge increase in demand from international buyers, many from the UK and the rest of Europe that are looking for a cheap investment property with good rental yields.…

  • U.S. Citizens and Offshore Investing

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    United States citizens can utilize offshore trusts and banks, because each citizen must report foreign income. Taxable foreign income includes interest, dividends, and capital gains earned or accrued offshore and domestically. The U.S. government allows its citizens to transfer funds to offshore accounts, but it requires full disclosure of the type of asset and how…

  • Weekly Gold Report

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    This week’s Gold market covered a $29.60 range while notching another All-time high as the August futures contract traded as high as $1610.70 on July 19th and as low as $1581.10 just one session later. These markets have been economic data driven and since the data that is being released apparently changes seemingly minute to…

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