Investment Migration After COVID: Trends and Outlook

The report identifies the most consequential transformations that took place in the investment migration market during the COVID years, prognosticates as to which marks the pandemic will leave on the market in the long run, and outlines how industry professionals can prosper in the new investment migration market.

Investment Migration After COVID tells the story of what we expected to happen after the pandemic, compares that to what happened and highlights what dozens of leading investment migration executives anticipate will change in the years ahead.

The report contains:

• Findings of the April 2021 Investment Migration Executive Survey©
  • How pandemic-related government restrictions have affected service deliverability;
  • How the pandemic has affected demand;
  • Which source markets are growing the fastest;
  • How client’s preferences have changed as a consequence of the pandemic,
  • In which regions IM companies are planning to open new offices;
  • Which programs have risen and fallen the most in popularity over the last year;
  • Which programs were the best-sellers in the last year, and which are expected to be the best-sellers in the next year; and
  • Which application processing units were the most efficient in 2020.
  • How companies have adapted to new work habits necessitated by the pandemic, such as working remotely, reducing travel and in-person event attendance, and the degree to which such changes are likely to persist in the long term.
• A review of the April 2020 COVID Market Impact Survey©
  • How IM executives expected the pandemic to impact demand compared to what actually happened;
  • How demand has changed between April 2020 and April 2021; and
  • What IM executives expected to happen with border restrictions compared to what actually happened.
• An interview with Nestor Alfred of the Saint Lucia CIU
  • How did the Unit change its policies to go from being a laggard to being the most efficient CIU, according to IM executives?
• The mega-trends driving the transformation of the IM market after COVID
  • The West wakes up to investment migration;
  • Crypto-millionaires: The new new rich;
  • The race to digitize and remote-enable program processing;
  • Beyond visa-free travel;
• How major investment migration programs performed in 2020
  • The winners and losers of the pandemic.
• The biggest differences between the IM market before and after COVID, according to industry leaders
  • Stefan Kraus, COO of Henley & Partners;
  • Jean-François Harvey, Global Managing Director of Harvey Law Group;
  • Eric G. Major, CEO of Latitude;
  • Mohammed Asaria, Founder of Range Developments;
  • Micha-Rose Emmett, CEO of CS Global Partners;
  • Nicholas Stevens, Managing Director of NTL Trust;
  • David Lesperance, Managing Partner of Lesperance & Associates;
  • Paul Williams, CEO of La Vida Europe; and
  • Sam Bayat, Founder of Bayat Legal Services.

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