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Secrets of healthy hedging
This technique can give you the edge in investing overseas – if you stick with it, writes Simon Hoyle. Currency hedging and dieting have more in common than you may think. Both require that you decide what you’re going to do and stick with it. It’s particularly difficult to predict how currencies will move in…
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To place, or not to place money offshore?
Q&A between Lindsay Williams and Peter Rigby about Money Offshore; December 2004 the rand trades at 5.60 to the US dollar – the first weeks of January 2005 the rand weakens to 6.14, strengthens temporarily, and slides once more – should investors be looking offshore? Alexander Forbes Financial Planning Consultants senior advisor Peter Rigby LINDSAY…
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Building a nest egg online
According to predictions from the Forrester Research Centre, the number of Europeans using online brokerage services to build a nest egg will almost double from 5 million in 2003 to nearly 10 million by 2007. Both traditional banks as well as online brokers have been getting more business since the financial market rebounded as of…
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ING on the prowl overseas
ING Industrial Fund is the latest vehicle to head offshore but it has its sights more on Europe than the United States. The plan to head overseas was revealed when the fund announced an 8.5 per cent rise in net profit to $52.7 million for the six months ending December 31, 2004. Distribution for the…
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Fidelity purchases shares of Boardwalk Real Estate Investment Trust
BOSTON, MA, Feb. 7 – Fidelity Management & Research Company and Fidelity Management Trust Company, of 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, as well as Fidelity International Limited of 42 Crow Lane, Pembroke, Bermuda (hereinafter referred to as “Fidelity”) announce that certain funds for which Fidelity serves as investment adviser have purchased 71,000 shares of…
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J.P. Morgan Chase’s ADR.com
American Depository Receipts (ADRs) have long been one of the easiest ways to invest in emerging market stocks without foreign regulatory complications and J.P. Morgan Chase and Thomson Financial offer a one-stop shop. ADR.com provides market overviews, research and customizable portfolios. Investors can track the performance of country indices and more than 40 sectors. J.P.…
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New Bulgarian Property Fund Helps Britons Mitigate IHT
A new investment scheme (Bulgarian Property Fund) has been launched in the United Kingdom designed to mitigate the effects of inheritance tax by investing in the Bulgarian property market, it has been reported. According to the Daily Telegraph, the Black Sea Property Fund, launched by Development Capital Management (DCM), is a seven-year savings plan giving…
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Taxation, Globalization and Free Trade in the Bahamas
The first offshore Free Trade operations in the Western Hemisphere were established in the Bahamas in 1936 by British and Canadian interests to provide management services for the investments of wealthy clients. These operations eventually became a wholly owned subsidiary of the National Westminster Bank, which was consolidated into the private banking operations of its…
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