Investment Migration’s Next Frontier Market: First-World Millionaires?
3 in 4 millionaires live in the “West” and display little interest in alternative residency or citizenship. What if that changed?
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Global CIP Accreditations Pass 1,000 For The First Time, Vanuatu’s Number Suddenly Triples
The Vanuatu Development Support program stood out by nearly tripling its number of designated agents during the period, from 30 to 87.
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“HNWIs Are Very, Very Nervous About Risk of Social Unrest”: Asaria on Investment Migration After COVID
Mohammed Asaria says UHNWIs, after the pandemic, are far more willing to physically move their business, capital, and families.
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China’s Millennials: What Does the World’s Largest Investor Migrant Group Want? Part 2
In this second installment, Luc Lu illustrates why China’s millennials are hyper-vigilant about health and skeptical about Chinese education.
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Investor Migrants Look at Healthcare When Deciding Where to Ride Out The Next Crisis
Kevin Bürchler: Tiny tropical islands can be great places in which to sit out a global crisis – until you need advanced medical assistance.
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Investment Migration in the EU Crossed Historic €5 Billion FDI Milestone in 2019
Conservatively estimated, EU-based RCBI programs accounted for FDI amounting to at least EUR 5.5 billion, double the 2015 figure.
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Hong Kong EB-5 Investors: Surging in 2019, Low Rejection Rates, Faster Adjudication
IIUSA’s Lee Y. Li conducts a detailed statistical analysis on EB-5 investment trends in one of the program’s fastest-growing markets.
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China’s Millennials: What Does the World’s Largest Investor Migrant Group Want? Part 1
China’s millennials are nothing like their parents. Now in their 30s and 40s, they are the main cohort of investor migrants. What do they want?
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Forget Everything You Thought You Knew About China’s Investment Migration Market
While demand is stronger than ever, the big agencies are closing branches and laying off staff. In 2020, all the rules have changed.
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Asset Allocation for Citizenship Portfolios: Maximize Yield, Hedge Against Black Swans
Now is the time for advisors to talk to clients about diversification of their residency and citizenship portfolios, writes Tatiana Tolstaia.
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Eric Major on Investment Migration After COVID: “Phone Rings The Most During Times of Turmoil”
Major also comments on the reasons he believes the Montenegro CIP has underperformed so far and, as of last week, had only issued ten passports.
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It’s Time CIPs Worked With Due Diligence Firms to Redesign Applicant Vetting Procedures
Thomas Anthony: Time has come for programs to collaborate with due diligence providers in redesigning their due diligence methodology from the ground up.
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Andrew Henderson on Investment Migration After COVID: “It’s Going to Be a Reset”
Watch: Andrew Henderson thinks CBI programs have little room to maneuver on price and warns citizenship-based taxation is on the European agenda.
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Exclusive Interview Series: Investment Migration After COVID-19 – What Next?
A brand new series of interviews with senior investment migration experts on what they think will change for the RCBI-market after the pandemic.
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“Migration by Investment” in the Era of Deglobalisation
“No amount of discounts or special offers will re-create the demand enjoyed over the past period until globalisation returns to the crease,” writes Mohammed Asaria.
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The Coming Sovereign Debt Crisis Will Give Birth to New Investment Migration Programs
COVID-19 may well give rise to the mother of all economic crises. Fortunate, then, that economic crises are the father of investment migration programs.
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Investor Survey Results Herald Short-Term Drop, Medium-Term Boost in RCBI Demand After COVID-19
Even among those whose portfolios have taken a painful beating, willingness to consider RCBI programs has held up well.
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Google Trend-Analysis Points to Startup Visas As the Category Least Harmed by COVID-19
What can Google search trends tell us about how the pandemic is affecting demand for RCBI and which programs will win and lose after it’s over?
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Asaria: 6 Characteristics of Citizenship by Investment in the New World Order
“Discretionary spending has been removed from [price-sensitive CBI investors’] vocabulary. The industry will return to the domain of the privileged.”
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Coronavirus Will Radically Impact the Investment Migration Market
The viral epidemic is a black swan event that will materially reconfigure the investment migration industry. And not just within China.
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