The language question may be one of the most pressing considerations to make before a move overseas…
If you already know a second language, should you limit your overseas search to places that speak it?
If English is your only language, can you even learn another?
And do you even want to learn a new language?Continue reading
I confess… I feel a little left out this week…
As I write, our ninth annual Retire Overseas Conference is in full swing in Houston, Texas, where all my far-flung colleagues and friends have come together to share what’s new from their corners of the globe. Normally I’d be among them, but this year I find myself grounded here in Paris thanks to a growing belly and an all-too-rapidly approaching due date…Continue reading
Our Offshore Wealth Summit corrals some of the world’s leading experts in their fields—these guys come from all over the globe, so it’s a feat to gather them all in one room for three whole days. At no other event can you meet and speak with such a varied group of offshore talent that can give such detailed and case-specific advice on whatever your diversification goals are…
Throwback to Offshore Wealth Summit 2017: Publisher Kathleen Peddicord leading a panel discussion on international banking
So who exactly will be in the room in Panama City this October? Let’s debut the lineup…
Lief Simon is a name you probably know well, but you might not be as familiar with his extensive background—all the experience that makes him one of the undisputed leaders in this diversification beat.
Lief has been taking a diversified global approach—to business, to investing, and to life in general—and showing others how to do the same, for more than 25 years.
He’s lived and worked on 5 continents and traveled to more than 60 countries. His real estate investing experience began more than 20 years ago with a multi-unit building in Chicago. After selling that building for a leveraged total return of more than 1,800% in two-and-a-half years, Lief began to diversify internationally. In the years since, he has personally bought and sold property in 23 countries.
Lief looks for one of two market situations when evaluating a potential investment: an abundance of opportunity created by a market distortion (crisis investing) or a chance to position yourself ahead of new infrastructure or some other local trend (the path of progress).
For example, Lief told his readers to buy in Argentina immediately after the 2001 financial crisis in that country, a time when CNN was showing riots in the streets and warning people to stay away. Lief saw not crisis but opportunity. Forward-thinking readers who followed his lead enjoyed appreciation rates of 100% and more in fewer than three years on buys in Buenos Aires.
Since then, Lief has also turned readers on to investments in Mexico, Romania, Spain, Colombia, and Brazil, to name just a few examples… buys that appreciated 160% in 18 months, 90% in 15 months, 60% in 2 years, 50% in 23 months, and a whopping 700% in 5 years, respectively.
Lief knows where to buy now and how much to spend. He knows the pitfalls and the caveats and how to avoid them all.
At his Offshore Wealth Summit, he’ll walk you through the fundamentals of global diversification and help you fit the pieces together to conceive and even begin to execute your own customized offshore diversification plan.
But he won’t do it alone…
Over the last 25-plus years living and doing business around the world, Lief has built a network of reliable and expert contacts he trusts—attorneys, bankers, tax consultants, and other advisors, both Stateside and in the many jurisdictions where he spends time and money. These are the people who keep him up-to-date on important changes—as they happen. And these are the colleagues he’s invited down to Panama over Oct. 9 to 11, including…
Joel Nagel, one of the world’s leading authorities on asset protection. Joel will introduce you to the most effective asset protection tools and strategies in the current global climate. Then he’ll walk you through how to use them to achieve an ironclad and legal asset protection plan of your own.
At this special event, you’ll have the opportunity to work directly with Joel to select the right structures, strategies, and jurisdictions for you so that you can manage and reduce your tax burden, protect your assets, and leave a legacy for your heirs…
Tom Rowley, an international tax expert who has lived and worked in
Latin America for more than 10 years. Tom helps entrepreneurs launch their new lives and businesses overseas, guiding them in maximizing the U.S. tax benefits of living and operating a business abroad, building a “portable” business, liberating themselves and their assets, and taking their IRA or 401(k) offshore…
Evie Brooks, an international real estate mentor, coach, and investor, with a special focus on Panama. Today, she leads Access Panama, the country’s top lifestyle and investment real estate group. A former Advanced Trainer for Rich Dad Poor Dad, Evie has educated and guided others in locating, evaluating, and analyzing real estate transactions focusing on cash flow and ROI for years…
Roberto Guardia is our go-to legal eagle in Panama. He holds two master’s degrees, and has a variety of expertise, including real estate and consulting. He is a founding partner at Guardia & Co., established in 2005, as well as a member of the National Organization of Lawyers in Panama—if you’ve got ambitions of any kind in Panama, he’s the man to help…
Juan Dario Gutiérrez, founder of JDG Law Advisors, a Medellín-based company specialized in personalized legal services to foreigners living, relocating and/or doing business in Colombia…
João Gil Figueira, managing partner of Gil Figueira & Devillet Lima Advogados, is an international tax and business lawyer who advises multinational firms and high-net-worth individuals regarding taxation, investment structures, security offerings, initial coin offerings, company formation, and residency/citizenship in Portugal and Portuguese-speaking countries. He is experienced in providing comprehensive and well-rounded advice to international investors and retirees on living in and investing in and from Portuguese-speaking jurisdictions.
João lectured for several years at Portuguese universities on taxation for masters and executive masters programs and has authored several legal books, articles, and guides on Portuguese business and tax law…
Michael Cobb, long-time Latin America expat and businessman, covers offshore real estate finance, development, and ownership.
At the height of a successful career in the computer industry, Mike left to pursue more pioneering opportunities in the emerging real estate markets of Central America. In 1996, he and his business partner formed a company, Exotic Caye International (ECI), to provide loans to North Americans purchasing properties in Belize, Honduras, Costa Rica, and throughout the region. It continues to provide mortgage services but has expanded its services to encompass the full realm of financial products.
Mike led the group into real estate development and ECI is now a multi-country developer with projects in Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama and planned communities in Ecuador and Chile as well…
You don’t have to be a millionaire to take up the idea of banking, doing business, or investing offshore. There are different levels to this game. Only you will know what makes sense for your circumstances and what’s within your comfort zone.
Your strategy might be as simple as opening a bank account in another country. (You might not even have to leave the United States to do this.)
Or you can get more complex and diversify into real estate, precious metals, form an offshore corporation, move overseas, even acquire second citizenship, as Lief and so many others have…
I know of no other reliable source where this kind of from-the-scene intelligence from the world’s top offshore havens is shared in real time by someone with real world, first-hand experience at all this…
Come Oct. 9, this A-Team of the offshore world will be in the room to share with you everything you need to know to protect and grow your wealth—and enjoy more freedom—now and in the future.
If you ever feel like life in the United States is no longer in keeping with your own set of values…
That you’re paying out so much in taxes that you’re barely able to put anything aside for your future…
That you’ll never be able to afford to retire…
Or that you’re not providing for your family in the way that you hoped…
Then don’t miss your one and only chance this year to take a proactive approach to these issues. Over these three days, our ultimate aim is to arm you with all the knowledge you need to put yourself back in the driving seat and take control over what’s rightfully yours. That way, you can plan a more prosperous future for you and your loved ones.
Plenty of time on our schedule for snacks and chats
With the event just around the corner, we are almost at full capacity… but a number of seats remain. Be warned, though, that the Early Bird Discount expires in a couple of weeks, so now’s a good time to get in…
You can read the full details of what Lief and his trusted team have in store for you here.
As always, you may book with us over the phone—toll-free from North America at 1-888-546-5169—or contact events@liveandinvestoverseas.com with any queries.
Kat Kalashian
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I never thought I’d know so many lawyers in my life… let alone count them as friends. But as I looked over the schedule for our upcoming Offshore Wealth Summit, I realized just how many long-time family friends come from a legal background…
Setting up a solid, reliable network of legal help in all the countries you have interests in is not just good sense, it’s often obligatory.
It’s not easy to find folks you can trust… perhaps especially true of those in the attorney game. Continue reading
Retirement is looming.
With it comes the challenge of deciding where to live.
We plan to take the next three years to figure out an answer to that question, living in various locations for three to six months each.
But how do we decide where we might like to hang our hats in retirement? How do we make a short list of destinations to try on for size for this next phase of life?Continue reading
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While she relishes the freedom of this lifestyle, it sometimes puts her in an inconvenient administrative position.
She shared her most recent round of rootless woes in today’s, hot-off-the-virtual-press Simon Letter issue. The story is such a good cautionary tale and testimonial for lifestyle diversification, I felt more readers might benefit from an excerpted version of her experience…Continue reading
“Dark tourism” is a supposedly new phenomenon. It’s what people call it when you visit a place just to ogle some tragic aspect of its history.
One of the newest additions to the world’s list of dark tourism sites is Chernobyl, recently opened to the public and now offering tours.
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My world is all things Overseas Retirement Index 2020 right now—the annual issue that we put out in December begins at least six months in advance.
It’s got me thinking about all our top havens, why they are such, and what goes into making that decision…
It comes down to 14 things…14 things that are so important, I have them pasted on one of the walls in our Panama City HQ. They are the guiding principle behind everything my editors and I do each day…Continue reading