For Sovereign Individuals and Their Advisors
“Two big doors to the outside world closed this week. This just means that we need to open more doors – or make the small doors wider.”
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A reader wants to know, once and for all, how much each program pays agents in commissions. Answering that question is harder than you think.
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Michael Krakat asks: What is a passport’s nominal visa-freedom worth if health-restrictions prevent you from boarding a plane in the first place?
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Thanks to the technological advances Nicola Mangion explores in her article, forgetting your passport at home may soon be a non-issue.
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How prepared are small CIP countries for a potential deluge of CBI-citizens who want to move to their COVID-free islands when borders reopen?
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Though 2020 is unlikely to be a record year for the market as a whole, some programs are hitting all-time highs during the pandemic.
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Media reports this month say the pandemic is driving record expatriation. The reality, writes David Lesperance, is exactly the opposite.
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Between 2015 and 2017, one in five Antigua CIP investors chose the real estate option. In the last two years, only one in forty did. Why?
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A confluence of events in many treaty countries will see the E2 visa emerge as one of the most popular visa options in the next 12-18 months.
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Christopher Clowes explores the potential of four fast-growing investment migration markets that don’t get enough attention.
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The money-for-rights model of investment migration – while economically successful – is a hard sell, politically. Canada’s model offers a compromise.
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Faced with rising minimum investment requirements among RCBI programs across the globe, China’s Investment Migration market will respond in three ways.
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Home to nearly half a million HNWIs with low mobility, India has more potential than, perhaps, any other investment migration market.
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A handful of investment migration programs are weighing the introduction of higher investment thresholds this year. How can they price it correctly?
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30,000 millionaires, terrorism, a cash-economy, and trust issues: Nigeria’s investment migration market offers great challenges, but even greater potential.
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Investment financing has the potential to catapult investment migration from UHNWI luxury product status to the much greater mass affluent market.
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Luc Lu’s recent tour of China’s investment migration market highlight a rapidly changing industry that’s reconfiguring to deal with multiple crises.
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The program’s largest fund manager says that, thanks to non-SIV follow-up investments, total FDI arising from the program may be close to A$50 billion.
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Portugal’s recent focus on private equity investment funds for Golden Visas reveal investor migrants are now sensitive to sound tax and exit strategies.
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Could we soon see the rise of CIPs that apply to cities, rather than to whole countries? One progressive European city provides a template.
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