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This potential client investor database is guided and targeted by a comprehensive range of investorseurope affiliate feeder sites to Offshore Stock Brokers and is composed of offshore investors from the four continents and expatriates of many nationalities who require online trading access to world stock exchanges to trade what they are interested –or specialised- in as investors. This roving offshore trading community of professional expatriates can be a demanding; it does not trade tax free on a whim and a prayer but downloads and tests the offshore trading platform(s) best suited to its specific technical, personal and technological trading requirements before opening numbered offshore trading accounts. In addition to these clients, Asset Managers, Wealth Managers and Fund Managers work with Offshore Stock Brokers most versatile trading platform called Offshore Trader because they require total individual segregation of their clients in sub accounts which allow their clients to see their individually segregated net equity at all times, in real time. This leaves the investment manager to do what he is best at in absolute terms: trading for his clients. It takes a very good Online trading platform to do this efficiently, all the while protecting the client’s identity and automatically allocating the proportional trades done on each and every client’s behalf. These managers often become introducing brokers or introducing agents thereby receiving a contractual rebate on commissions generated by the clients they have introduced who are executing their trades through Offshore Stock Brokers. This rebate is paid free of taxes anywhere in the world in the jurisdiction or accounts requested by the introducing agent. Introduding agents do not need to be regulated but due diligence is done on these introducers per Offshore Stock Brokers regulatory requirements.
Amongst the many other categories that compose the ranks of offshore investors world-wide, we should not forget the much abused U.S. and American traders, clients and expatriates. These U.S. offshore investors and American expatriates have been very negatively affected in terms of choice by the collateral anti-commercial damage done by the Patriot’s Act which has also served to ironically reinforce the oligopoly of the handful of incumbents in the United States, namely the American Exchanges (NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX) and three or four of the large U.S. Investment Banks currently under the cosh of the sub-prime debacle. These factors have directly or indirectly contributed to the effective banning and/ or commercially exorcism of CFDs from the U.S. (should we say “sold short”?) by the United States of America for much the same reason that spread betting was hit (and I use the word advisedly) by the current American Administration. The latest ruling by the WTO is quite an eye opener. The trading and the betting world (yes, convergence of the two is inevitable) has changed immeasurably within the last 12 months and the financial landscape has definitely changed more radically than most traditional brokers and financial institutions currently realise; the investment world or, rather, the world of investment (of investment choices) is now every man’s financial oyster and it is literally, technologically there for the taking, for the ‘investing’. There are now really no such things as exotic markets: there are simply those markets that are MORE or LESS executable in terms of trading. It is as simple (or as difficult) as that! Take a look at that eternal basket case, Africa, at present on an upward economic surge on high mineral prices and aggressive inward Chinese investment. On the Sub-Saharan African continent, apart from South Africa itself, the stock exchanges are difficult to access with low liquidity which can be risky for an investor but this is improving fast in tandem with the economic growth shown by this continent over the last five years. A good point in case would be Angola, which is now the biggest Sub Saharan producer of oil in Africa, having overtaken Nigeria over the last few years. Angola’s heretofore unknown stock exchange is currently shaping up and investors should watch this space as Angola is a huge store house of mineral wealth. If they can jettison the legal hangover from their erstwhile Scientific Socialism (Communist) period and allow foreign investors to have full ownership of land, then the process would be ten times more dynamic. As it stands, this throwback to Agostinho Neto’s day in the 70’s only serves to promote more graft as disaffected foreign investors get their investments ‘squeezed then seized’. Subject to this important caveat, the Angolan markets could be very exciting indeed and the days of executing CFDs on Angolan stocks and shares cannot be that far off.
Other continents such as the Australian continent boast very mature and innovative stock exchanges and Australia is setting up a formal CFD stock exchange (will America eventually follow its lead?) and it has effectively become the gateway to other potentially more important oriental stock exchanges such as the Japanese, Chinese, Korean exchanges etc. Back in Europe, another gateway-type exchange is the Austrian Stock Exchange whose brokers are highly specialised in Eastern European exchanges such as Russia and erstwhile satellite countries now vying for a piece of the international investor’s pie with a significant stock market offering of their own. These exchanges (e.g. Poland, Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania etc) are coming from virtually a zero base with a highly intelligent, highly educated populace and will outstrip growth of more mature exchanges such as the Belgium Stock Exchange (read EURONEXT in its many manifestations) over the medium term.
On the South American continent, the Brazil Stock Exchanges, the Brasil (as it is spelled in Portuguese) Stock Exchanges have been stellar performers but they have 3 significant impediments when compared to the budding Eastern European Exchanges for which reason they will not show the same explosive growth over the next 3-4 years unless they get their economic, technological and legal act together quickly:
1. They are technologically weak in terms of online trading (segregated online sub accounts in 2007 were virtually impossible to set up)2. The legal investment and regulation framework favours banks and very large financial institutions; it is weighted against foreign brokers and a closed shop of Brazilian brokers has been effectively created.3. This makes for very expensive operating costs for a foreign broker and a lengthy (and costly) set up
ETFs are also very popular product and the better trading platforms offer a good selection of ETFs. The choice of product will depend on each client and each investor’s individual risk profile and wish to leverage up their available cash to invest in futures or CFDs using a margin and buy and sell or hit the bid or the offer on financial products traded tax free on stock exchanges throughout the world online using a numbered trading account given by investorseurope after they have opened an offshore trading account.
Below are some of the expatriate countries and client nationalities (markets and clients) we currently cover for Equities and CFDs:
For those wishing to open an offshore company with which to trade, we can normally set up the company as part of your offshore trading account set up as all the necessary information will be held by us. Some of the offshore jurisdictions where we can help you get a good deal are:Mauritius |
