Offshore and Domestic Asset Protection Planning
Asset Protection Strategies and Offshore Planning
March 27, 2013 By: Kelly Diamond, Editor Without any known or present problem with the existing rule, the Australian legislature rushed a law into effect taking the inactive period from seven years to three before they seize the assets. This sudden change came as a surprise even to Australian banks, who find the arbitrary nature [...]
March 26, 2013 By: Kelly Diamond, Editor The response from Cypriot account holders to the initial bailout proposal to levy a “tax” of 6.7% to 9.9% across the board sent the EU and Cyprus government back to the drawing board for a different deal. The second largest Cypriot bank (Laiki) will close, the first largest [...]
March 15, 2013 By: Kelly Diamond, Editor The Cook Islands go out of their way to protect your assets and otherwise leave them alone. The US seems to go out of its way to get those assets. Cook Islands — and other off-shore locations — prove time and again their loyalty to their trust clients, [...]
March 2, 2013 by Brian Mahany The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution used to protect us from self-incrimination. When it comes to the IRS collecting taxes, your offshore financial documents are exempt from such protection. If you look up a court case titled In Re Various Grand Jury Subpoenas in the Manhattan federal court’s docket, [...]
February 21, 2013 By: Gordon Haave A 529 Savings Plan is NOT a mechanism for saving for a child’s college tuition, but rather saving for a college administrator’s salary. With a four-year degree estimated at $150,000 or more – and rising every year – parents scramble to find a way to pay for this looming [...]
by Tres Knippa, Short Japan Debt February 1, 2013 If you would like to get a glimpse of what to expect from central bankers in the coming years, then look no further than the new Bank of England head, Mark Carney. The UK just posted inflation figures of 2.7%. It is important to point out [...]
by Scott Causey, Resource Correspondent Every person on earth starts off with a base level of knowledge and inherent biases when being introduced to new skillsets. The inate skills, abilities, knowledge, and biases within that organism will determine a starting point for obtaining actionable new skills, or knowledge base. How critical is it then for [...]
by Scott Causey, GWP Resource Correspondent Tens of trillions of multiple currency units slosh around the financial universe everyday. Japan’s sovereign debt is measured in a metric called a quadrillion. So is the derivatives market. Going back over 100 years, central bankers around the globe have been the masters of the Universe. Stand close enough to the [...]
by Scott Causey, GWP Resource Correspondent Two things will always be true about capital controls: they will always fail in the end and they will always protect the guilty. The Swiss have printed unprecedented amounts of francs to peg their currency against the euro. In the end, that decision will have a cost that is [...]
by Scott Causey, GWP Resource Correspondent Call one “Black Swan” event in markets with correct timing and accuracy, and you’ll forever be a legend in the minds of many. These seminal moments have historically not come along that often. In recent years, however, they’ve become more and more frequent; the market crash of 1987, the bursting of [...]
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