Tag: Singapore
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HNW Offshore Investment: Booking Center Preferences 2016
OrbisResearch has added report on “HNW Offshore Investment:Booking Center Preferences 2016” Market.The report is split by product types, Size, Share, Applications DALLAS, TX, UNITED STATES, January 24, 2017 /EINPresswire.com/ — 2015 was a weak year for the Global HNW Offshore Investment Market. However, there have been clear winners and losers as the dynamics of the…
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Appetite for infrastructure investment outpaces perceived investment opportunities
Global study finds an increasing preference for long-term investments and emerging market exposure over the next 3-5 years. Key findings include: 65% of investors intend to increase their allocations to infrastructure over the next 3-5 years; The number of investors seeking emerging market infrastructure exposure is set to more than double over the next 3-5…
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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…
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Fifty Shades of Tax Dodging
UK takes two-faced approach to tax, new report suggests 3 November 2015 – The UK government has a ‘Janus-faced’ approach to tax, a new report suggests today: promising an increasingly intolerant approach to evasion and avoidance while being an aggressive participant in global tax competition and tolerating the UK tax havens which facilitate financial crime…
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JP Morgan private banker: “We can’t make money anymore…
[typography font=”Cantarell” size=”11″ size_format=”px”]by Simon Black[/typography] July 1, Singapore – Yesterday over coffee, a friend of mine leaked the news that JP Morgan’s private banking division here in Singapore is going to start charging negative interest rates. I almost fell out of my chair. He’s a successful hedge fund manager and one of their best customers.…
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Tax havens hidden in plain sight
Many of the world’s most secretive tax havens, ranging from Anguilla to Uruguay, are set to open their books to foreign tax by 2017. A year later, dozens more, including Belize, Hong Kong and Singapore, are set to follow suit. Among them is Switzerland, abandoning a tradition of secrecy that dates back at least as…
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Singapore IFC the Offshore Banking Giant
When you think of Singapore do you think of a treacherous, disease-infested seaport where the downtrodden live in the streets and you can buy anything for the right price? Or do you think of a wealthy island nation with safe, clean streets and a prosperous and busy economy? About a century ago, Singapore was a…
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Offshore Banking for Corporations
Usually banking goes hand in hand with offshore company formation. For legitimate tax minimisation purposes, it is customary to have a corporate bank account residing in a country different from the country of incorporation. This is commonly practised. For instance, a Singapore company is ideal for international business because company funds remitted outside of Singapore…