Tag: China

  • Why China Is Really Dictating the Oil Supply Glut

    Ship tracking data from Bloomberg shows that 83 supertankers carrying around 166 million barrels of oil are headed to China, which has stockpiled an impressive 787,000 barrels a day in the first quarter of 2016—the highest stockpiling rate since 2014. China Is Really Dictating the Oil Supply Glut. While the world was speculating about oil prices plunging…

  • Chinese Tech Giant Kuang-Chi to Launch $300-Million Global Fund and Incubator in Israel

    May 1, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Kuang-Chi, a Shenzhen-based technology conglomerate, is launching an international innovation fund based in Israel to invest offshore in companies worldwide. The “Kuang-Chi GCI Fund & Incubator” will be the first Chinese fund of its kind, combining investment in early to mid-stage Israeli and global companies with incubation by Kuang-Chi. The…

  • The Trend in Chinese Offshore Investment

    The trend in Chinese offshore investment in the U.S. has been increasing each year. In 2012 the level of investment was $6.5 billion. Much of this investment is in U.S. real estate where great buying opportunities still exist. The registered foreign retirement plan is an ideal asset protection vehicle for Chinese investors that make investments that…

  • The case for offshore

    Eye-popping revelations in the Panama Papers have fanned concerns that the so-called “tax havens” lie at the centre of a giant web of criminal conduct. Some, including UK Leader of the Opposition Jeremy Corbyn, have demanded that these offshore centres be “shut down”, and so disconnected from the global grid. The uproar invites examination of…

  • Planning on Hiding Behind Banking Secrecy?

    Things have changed that make citizens of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and all “high net worth individuals” (HNWI) a target now. Hiding assets PRC style (off the grid) and pretending someone else called ”Aunty”, a business, trust or nominee account owns them puts you at criminal risk needlessly. ORSO402(b) legal non-disclosure programming has…

  • PRC Offshore Life Insurance

    The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are pressuring the Peoples Republic of China to get corruption and bribery out of their tax system and the illicit transfer of money abroad. The intermediaries they are dealing with are themselves committing criminal offence. It is a criminal offence to deal with money or assets of…

  • Why is tiny Luxembourg key to China’s global plans?

    An unlikely partnership? The numbers say otherwise. It might seem curious that China, a country of 1.4 billion people, should even notice Luxembourg’s half a million residents. But since Beijing’s decision to establish the tiny country as one of a few global trading hubs through which the RMB is being gradually internationalised, Luxembourg has emerged…

  • China Offshore Summit Series

    Since the inception of the China Offshore Summit series in 2010, China’s HNWI, investment groups and corporations have developed an ever increasing need for sophisticated international wealth, tax and asset planning services. This demand, coupled with growing pressure from local and international taxation authorities for transparency has created a massive gap in traditional offshore planning…

  • Gold Market and the China Currency War

    Q: What effect will the recent devaluation on the Chinese Yuan have on the price of gold? I expect that since the USD increased in value relative to the Yuan that it would be bad for the price of gold in USD terms. Am I thinking correctly? A: The devaluation is of no predictive value.…