Custom-Made Banking Haven Editor’s Note: I invited longtime friend Peter Zipper, with 30 years’ experience in the international banking industry and currently president of Cay Bank in Belize, to share insights into banking opportunities in that country. Read on for Peter’s thoughts...Belize is a custom-made banking haven. With their Belize Act in 1981, the Brits built [...]
My #1 Recommendation For Where To Go Off-Grid A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how to get away from Big Brother. Today I’d like to offer a recommendation for where to get away from Big Brother: Belize. Belize is a place where it is easy to go offline and off-grid while still retaining access [...]
A Formula For Dumping Big Brother Interested in protecting yourself from ever-bigger Big Brother? Not interested in being tracked by the NSA, MI6, Mossad, or any other "intelligence agency"? Don't want to be hounded by the IRS for tax forms detailing your assets? Don't want banks reporting your accounts to U.S. authorities? You're not alone...and [...]
Turn-Key Residency With Investment Upside Panama’s new “Specific Countries” residency visa program is one of the most turn-key in the world. Authorized through Executive Order by current Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli, this residency option is available to citizens of 47 specifically named countries. If you hold a passport for one of the 47 countries on [...]
Could The Average Retiree Really Afford To Retire To France Or Italy? A consulting client I spoke with the other day was surprised when I suggested that he could live in Europe on his retirement pension of US$2,200 a month...including in either France or Italy, the two countries that interest him. What About Taxes? If [...]
Irish Forestry Incentives And More Current Opportunities In Europe Traveling to six countries in four weeks (eight countries if you count airports) reminded me that opportunity can be found just about anywhere. It's a matter of what kind of opportunity you're in the market for. In Turkey, for example, the economy is reasonably strong, and [...]
Chocolate Gold Cash may be king, but gold trumps it when it comes to hedging inflation and the general devaluation of paper money. Many investment advisors suggest clients hold 10% of their wealth in precious metals. One I know has in recent years been recommending that his clients hold 50% and more of their wealth [...]
A Favorite Yield-Generating Hard Asset One theme at the Wealth Retreat I hosted in Panama last week was yield-generating hard assets—specifically, rental properties, condo hotels, and agricultural land. Argentine developer and economist Steve Rosberg, one of the speakers participating in last week's program, focuses his business on hard assets. Specifically, Steve has undertaken dozens of [...]
From wire fees to minimum monthly account fees and ATM fees, the little bites that are taken out of every overseas transaction you make are increasing. When we moved to Panama five years ago, we weren’t charged a fee when withdrawing money from a local ATM, not even when that ATM wasn’t associated with our […]
FATCA Facts FATCA has been one of the regular topics of discussion at the Wealth Retreat I'm hosting at Buenaventura in Panama this week. FATCA has confused, irritated, and scared Americans since it first came out as the offset provision for the HIRE Act in 2010. We joked that the only jobs created by the [...]
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