As I’ve been reporting for years, it’s possible to invest your IRA funds outside the United States. However, to do so, you have to find an IRA custodian that allows for non-traditional investments. A traditional brokerage or bank custodian generally only allows you to hold assets in your IRA that he can sell you—stocks, bonds, […]
It's A Show-And-Tell World (Don’t Try To Hide Your Assets!) Some recent reader emails have me scratching my head. Some dear readers are railing against me for writing about ways both to save taxes and to protect assets by moving them offshore. These readers seem fully to believe that these activities are illegal. The only [...]
“Pandora Papers” For The Rest Of Us—You Can Use The Same Legal Loopholes The Rich Use Panama Papers... Paradise Papers... Pandora Papers... Yes, some of the folks involved in those leaks may have been illegally gaming the system. With a little more intelligence and a little less greed, they'd have nothing to worry about. But [...]
An attendee at a webinar I hosted earlier this month asked for specific recommendations for how to carry out due diligence on real estate investment opportunities abroad. He knows how to do his due diligence for real estate purchases back home, where he is an active investor, he explained, but he is just getting started […]
Offshore Structures 101—Why, Where, And How This week I’m hosting my annual Offshore Wealth Summit from Paris. For the first time ever, it’s a virtual event. My fellow presenters and I are all signing in remotely—me from Paris, them from Panama, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Belize, Italy, Portugal, Thailand, the United States, etc.—to discuss strategies for [...]
A banker friend from Austria who speaks at many of our live events likes to ask the following question as part of his presentation: “What happens to your bank account (in Austria… or anywhere else offshore) if you and your banker—and only you and your banker—know about its existence… and then you die?” If you’re […]
Fundamentally, an offshore bank account allows you to remove some of your money from your home country’s banking system. That’s the big-picture upside. An offshore bank account, once in place, also can allow you access to alternative investment options not available back home… especially for Americans and Canadians. Through your offshore bank account, you can
I’ve spent the past two-and-a-half decades scouting the world for the best opportunities to make money while having some fun. Right now, I’d say that having options is a more critical agenda than it’s ever been… and that not having options leaves you exposed and
Estate planning is something everyone needs to think about even if all they intend to do is put a will in place designating what assets go to which heirs. Without a will in place, the deceased is considered intestate and their assets will be divided up based on the laws of the state where they […]
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