If you purchase a piece of real estate in another country, should you have the ownership documents issued in your name or, perhaps, in the name of a corporation? If a corporation, should it be a local company (formed in the jurisdiction where you’re purchasing) or one based somewhere else? I get these questions from […]
Offshore 101: Getting Educated About The Offshore World Going Offshore. Going offshore has in recent years become a more mainstream idea. Back in the 90s going offshore was thought to be only for criminals, drug lords, or tax dodgers. These days the offshore world is far from a foreign idea. What is FATCA? The Foreign Asset Tax Compliance [...]
Planning Your Legacy And Protecting Future Generations The idea of legacy planning isn’t new. Families from the Rothschilds to the Duponts and the Kennedys have done it for a long time, and some European families have created plans that have maintained family wealth for centuries. The idea that those of us with less substantial assets might [...]
International Real Estate As An Investment A piece of real estate anywhere in the world is a real asset that you control and that, barring some act of God, can’t disappear altogether. Further, buy right, and your property investment can grow in value and deliver reliable cash flow. Certainly, if you’ve bought right, with an eye [...]
Understanding The Flag Theory and 5 Flags Approach In the face of the kinds of market, economic, and political uncertainties the world is currently presenting, the key to protecting yourself, your family, and your assets is diversification, and the only way to truly diversify yourself is through planting flags. There are five basic things we [...]
For Sale: Caribbean Passport You have two main options for getting a second passport (if you're not entitled to one by descent): spend the required time as a resident of a country to get naturalized; or, invest in a country that grants immediate citizenship. The downside to these citizenship-by-investment programs (CIPs) is the cost, which [...]
It’s the end of an era for Golden Visas in Europe… It all happened very quickly. In the space of three days last week, two European countries suspended their residence-by-investment
For Sale: Caribbean Passport You have two main options for getting a second passport (if you're not entitled to one by descent): spend the required time as a resident of a country to get naturalized; or, invest in a country that grants immediate citizenship. The downside to these citizenship-by-investment programs (CIPs) is the cost, which [...]
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