Offshore Wealth Creation
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008If you are looking for one of the very few genuine ‘high yield investment opportunities,’ you couldn’t do much better than microfinance – that is loaning money in small amounts at high interest rates to small business people in developing countries. The great thing about this investment is you can earn great returns and do [...]
Crash creates opportunities in Latin America
Sunday, October 26th, 2008While my co-editor Richard has just written a fascinating article for Q Wealth Report on the rise of the east, regular readers know that I am bigger on Latin America. That doesn’t mean I disagree with Richard’s predictions (quite the contrary in fact) but I simply understand better Latin America and Europe. By definition, one [...]
How to Get Started Offshore
Thursday, September 18th, 2008If you are looking into ways to make money, you may start to look into an offshore bank account. Opening a bank account offshore may appear, at first glance, to be a very paperwork-intensive process. It’s no longer just a matter of filling out a form on the internet then mailing off a copy of [...]
Bank Account Reporting Requirements Revisited
Monday, August 25th, 2008I’m so often asked by clients “will my new offshore bank be required to report that I have an account with them?”
Here, for the benefit of my blog readers, is my standard answer.
Although there is a lot of variation between countries, the usual answer will be “no.” If you follow the basic advice you’ll [...]
Australia: Where the Beer Is Great and the Bonds Are Better
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008“Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.”
Zig Ziglar
Australia: Where the Beer Is Great and the Bonds Are Better
By Andrew Gordon
About a year ago, my father invested in a Merrill Lynch bond. I looked it over… noted its high rating… and saw nothing [...]