Tag: invest offshore

  • Why Silver Bars May Be A Golden Investment For 2007

    Silver bars is a wonderful way to put your money in precious metals. This investment does not demand loads of money and you can get the strength and steadiness that comes along with precious metals. With technological advances you can now opt for online trading of metals. You need to search for dealers or firms…

  • Antiques vs. Collectibles

    Finding a definitive definition for both an antique and a collectible is not possible. Just what constitutes an antique and what constitutes a collectible is determined by each individual antique dealer. Many times, the dealers will give varied answers to the seemingly simple question, ‘What is a collectible and what is an antique?’ Most dealers…

  • The Dow Theory

    You will hear a lot about the Dow Theory as you travel through your trading career. Dow himself never actually used the phrase. That came later as analysts began to use the term. I should back up here slightly and mention that in 1884 Dow published his first stock market average of 11 stocks. From…

  • DBA The agricultural ETF

    Several new ETFs were introduced that enhance the ability of investors to join in the commodities game. While many of them including the oil, gold, and silver ETF (DBO, DBS, DGL) are improvements on previous funds, the DBA fund is the first that allows investors to get involved in the agricultural commodities – perhaps the…

  • Global Investors Pour Money Into Ireland

    Ireland has become the jurisdiction of choice for high value investments in hi-tech manufacturing plants, research and development projects and financial services according to the Irish government’s Industrial Development Agency (IDA Ireland) as it marked an “outstanding” year for growth and new investments in 2006. “Ireland is now seeking and winning high value investments, that…

  • Tax shelters are like ice bergs…

    Tax shelters are like ice bergs… … because the 10% on top is glistening and gleaming and looks wonderful, and 90% of it that is hidden is filled with unknown dangers. The history of tax shelters in the United States has at best, been dubious, and at worst disastrous. The biggest problem with a tax…

  • Season’s Greetings

    Here today, gone to Rio. Be back in 2007… Please see our: Season’s Greetings from Silicon Palms in Brazil. Season’s Greetings and Political Correctness “Season’s Greetings” is a greeting more commonly used as a motto on winter season greeting cards, and in commercial advertisements, than as a spoken phrase. In addition to “Merry Christmas”, Victorian Christmas cards…

  • Can you trust a trust?

    The trust is the oldest of all of the entities currently used in international financial planning. Some say it dates back to Roman times, but it certainly dates back at least to the time of the Crusades, when it was used to protect the estate of the knight or Lord who went to fight in…

  • Invest Offshore in Hong Kong

    A United Nations report has revealed that Hong Kong attracted US$35.9 billion in foreign direct investment last year, up 5.6% on 2004, making it the second-largest FDI destination in Asia after the Chinese Mainland, which amassed US$72.4 billion. According to the UN’s World Investment Report 2006, the FDI that flowed into Hong Kong was greater…