Tag: invest offshore
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Which Countries Are Stashing The Most Wealth Offshore?
Individuals and corporations send money abroad for various reasons, including seeking better investment opportunities, minimizing tax burdens, and protecting their wealth in low-tax or no-tax jurisdictions. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, shows the top 10 countries that owned the most offshore financial wealth in 2022, according to data from the Atlas of the Offshore World. Chinese Hold Over…
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The Impact of Trade Agreements on Cross-Border Investments
International trade agreements can significantly impact cross-border investments by shaping the global business landscape and creating or altering opportunities for investors. These agreements, whether bilateral or multilateral, are designed to establish a fair and predictable trading environment, and they can influence investor decisions by changing market access conditions, adjusting tariffs, or affecting economic stability. Trade…
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Emerging Markets vs. Developed Markets
Where to Invest Offshore? Deciding where to invest offshore can be a challenging decision, particularly when it comes to the choice between emerging and developed. Each offers unique opportunities and risks, which can have significant implications for investment outcomes. This article aims to compare the investment prospects in emerging and developed markets, providing insights to…
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Can I Invest Offshore On Low Capital?
Offshore investment stereotypically conjures up images of affluent celebrities and businessmen finding a way to protect their assets internationally. However, to invest offshore is not necessarily the hallmark of those with excessive funds, with people from varied economic backgrounds benefiting from offshore investment. If you are one of those people with a lower income or asset…
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Offshore investments: Is it all that evil?
Panama Papers incident has demonised offshore investments Offshore investing has recently been demonised in the media, thanks to the release of the so-called Panama Papers. This case paints a picture of investors stashing their money with some illegal company located in an obscure location where the tax rate is next to nothing. While it’s true…
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How to Invest Offshore Post FATCA
For years, people have invested offshore to protect their investment. This was money that the government could not tax and could not attach to you. Many considered it the safest way to store your money. Recently, however, things are changing. FATCA, Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, makes it harder for people to invest in offshore…
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The Invest Offshore Unique Selling Proposition
About “How to Invest Offshore”? we are asked again, and again what makes the 402(b) RAPS (regulated asset protection structure) unique. Or, in biz-dev parlance; what is the unique selling proposition of Invest Offshore? The following points were written to an American Tax Attorney but the fact of the matter is that because Pension Law…
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The Day Your IRA/401(k) Dies
October 20th, 2015. That date might not mean much to you now, but it will. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is expected to meet and announce that it intends to replace the U.S. Dollar as the default reserve currency. What’s that mean for Americans with retirement accounts? It means if your IRA or 401(k) is…
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Equity investment offshore
The sector of offshore investment that is growing most rapidly is probably that of equity investment. This is due in great part to the massive interest increase in direct stock market dealing (private) that coincided with the explosion of internet business. Because of the increased base of international businesses that rely upon internet marketing the…