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I hope you realize that such 'standard' will STILL require the countries to pass laws through their congress that will make such information transfer legal. There is no such thing as 'automatic', if it violates local banking laws it will require a new law passed by the legislative. EVEN if the...

The CFC rules applies to brazilian COMPANIES with offshore subsidiaries, not natural persons who own or are connected to offshore companies

Now, if you mean this Bahamian company would trade brazilian assets then that's illegal. Some people try to pull this trick to save in domestic tax. But if the company trades non-Brazilian assets, than there is no tax. Actually, there is but its "deferred" (until distribution). But you can leave...

Yes it is tax free, you only pay on distributions. I asked that. If you cant believe because your limiting beliefs from reading KPMG pdfs say prevent you from doing that than you got no hope.

I have confirmed with yet another tax attorney. If you open a offshore company as a brazilian citizen (not as a brazilian company), you will pay tax in the amounts that were distributed from the company to you. All the rest is tax free

https://www.pictet.com/corporate/en/home/asset_services/trading.html https://www.pictet.com/corporate/en/home/trading_with_pictet/pictet_global_markets.html

Its not a fund, its more like a brokerage. The guy said you didn't had to pay commission but rather a fee based on assets. I don't know how exactly it worked (or if all the commissions were exempt) but it sounded interesting and hence i'm trying to find more about it

Really? Because years ago I was in an investment newsletter and the guy recommended this as a 'accessible' private bank with a $250K minimum that had a good amount of product offerings and a 1% of assets fee. I was wondering if any of that changed

How do you like their fees and diversity of investment products offered?

I will say this, its tough to hold or invest in these portfolios now. Pretty much anything that you look at seems overpriced. Risk-premiums have been compressed to much that I decided to RISK missing out on future gains but waiting for a significant correction to get in. I figure this is a...

Interesting info here http://bonnerandpartners.com/a-smarter-way-to-build-wealth/ " CL: Your latest book is called Global Asset Allocation. I read it, and I found it fascinating. The core message is that the exact mix of asset classes in your portfolio matters less than the fees you pay for...

What is the typical cost per year of this setup?

Centerpoint Securities $40-$50K min tell them that Fernando sent you and they might lower your minimum

The disagreement comes from a different definition of 'getting out of the depression'. Same people (like me) call that having the sign from the rate of change switch from negative to positive in a sustainable way (aka a "recovery") getting out of the depression. Other people call having...

I don't think that is supported by the data. Not if you use a resonable definition of 'getting out of the depression'. The sign of the economic rate of change, changed, in those 26 countries right after they devalued/got off gold/debased. So improvements kept accumulating till WWII (and the...

I wouldn't say 'it has never worked before'. There is a 26 sample size of countries that lifted their economies out of the depression through currency debasement in the 30's. If you take a look at the data its pretty darn hard to rationalize that it was something else that got these economies...

Gold ownership was banned in Austria in WW1 (at least according to an article I read), the article doesn't say it but I'd assume it also happened in Germany. So the way you could have it was by having gold outside the country, which is likely to create the cost of storage. But if you are going...

I agree with all of this. The thing is, a point can be made that gold is expensive insurance beause giving up a few percentage points a year in order to bet or hedge that there will be hyperinflation seems quite pricey. Gold might do a better job (price wise) during a hyperinflation but real...

I agree with this. A bad buy is a bad buy. The thing is, even if the government would come cracking down on real estate, you would STILL be getting paid something (but, lets say 2-3% a year instead of 5%). That is still better than gold that would pay 0%. Lets say you take the rent yield...

According to Robert Shiller the long-term real return of real estate is 0%. Pretty similar to gold. It wont follow inflation closely every year but over longer periods, it should be fine. The thing is, with real estate you can collect rents and usually adjust those rents for inflation. So RE is...