Offshore
Always cover your assets: Learn about offshore banking, investing, and asset protection. Now is the time to diversify your portfolio and move outside the U.S. and its sinking dollar.
A Parisian Hotel That Pays YOU
Date: 06/30/2008
Monday, June 30, 2008
Paris, France
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Sounds like madness, doesn’t it? A hotel that actually pays you. But it’s true, and it’ll be opening soon in my favorite corner of Paris.
Read OnBorrow Low, Deposit High
Date: 05/27/2008 Author: Gary ScottTuesday, May 27, 2008
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Multicurrency distortions make multicurrency loans look better than they have for some time.
The current global credit crisis has created distortions that make many investments look bad. These same distortions have made leveraged multicurrency investments better.
Read OnBrazil Is Hitting the Town and Buying...Dollars?
Date: 05/15/2008Thursday, May 15, 2008
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Brazil has had some good fortune lately. On April 30, Standard and Poor’s upgraded the entire country and nine of Brazil’s banks to “investment grade.”
Almost immediately, pension funds and hedge funds from around the world poured money into this BRIC nation. In fact, Brazil sold over $500 million in bonds to these hungry investors. That doesn’t even count the investment assets that poured into Brazil’s stocks, real estate, etc.
Read OnSafe Bonds With 7.35% Yield
Date: 05/14/2008Wednesday, May 14, 2008
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The U.S. dollar is now under incredible pressure, and the timing couldn’t be worse. The U.S. economy is also sinking fast. This places the Fed between a rock and a hard place. To support the greenback, the Fed needs to raise U.S. interest rates…but its classic response to the threat of an economic recession is to lower those same rates.
Read OnWhy I Like Brazilian Bonds Right Now
Date: 04/25/2008Friday, April 25, 2008
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Multicurrency investments can reap rich rewards right now. Take, for example, this multicurrency Brazilian investment.
Read OnAmid Global Credit Crunch, It’s Business as Usual in Brazil
Date: 02/26/2008Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008
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The U.S. credit crunch is far from over, as vulture-investors and Warren Buffett now circle the troubled monoline insurers. These distressed insurers, including Ambac and MBIA, are the latest victims of the “repricing of risk,” as the Oracle of Omaha calls it.
However, several thousand miles and worlds away from Wall Street, the credit crunch appears to be having little spillover impact on South America’s biggest economy.
Read OnSwiss Banking Made Easy
Date: 12/31/2007Monday, Dec. 31, 2007
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Switzerland is the world's leading country for offshore banking and finance.
Read OnThis Banking Haven Has One of the Strongest Financial Privacy Laws in the World
Date: 12/14/2007Friday, Dec. 14, 2007
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There are several types of offshore jurisdictions that are financially attractive:
1. Tax havens--where a foreigner pays little or no taxes.
2. Asset protection havens--where local laws allow trusts, private family foundations and international business corporations.
3. Banking havens--where strict financial privacy laws guarantee banking secrecy. Some places combine all three.
The Austrian Republic is not a haven in the sense of low taxes, but it is a “banking haven.”
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