Different investments have different investment plans and therefore the budgets range widely. The budget and its purposes will be clearly stated up front.

Across the internet you will find, or all ready have found claims of how international investment in real estate can be structured in a way to provide you with a benefit that includes zero tax at home and almost complete asset protection. Several years ago, we investigated these claims and the structures underlying these claims.

During our investigation, what we discovered is that these strategies depend almost entirely upon the “secrecy” (as opposed to privacy) a foreign jurisdiction provides an investor from the home nations courts and taxing authorities.

Aside from ethical concerns with these strategies, there are increasing practical realities that home taxing nations have made it their highest priority to pierce the privacy of tax havens and begin assessing penalties and even criminal penalties upon those whose off-shore investment strategy has been one that included avoiding all tax at home.

Distinction between tax-avoidance strategies and asset protection strategies

Comply from a tax standpoint; plan from an asset protection standpoint.

Home nations give their taxing authorities the power to completely ignore and look through structures and arrangements which purport to separate a beneficial owner from the income generated by investments related to that individual for tax purposes.

However, home nations have commonly not been involved in ignoring foreign structures that assist an individual in protecting their assets from civil suits and other civil seizures.

We believe that in the current environment, adopting an off-shore investment strategy that includes techniques and structures to completely avoid at-home tax involves risking personal disaster. However, we believe that asset protection and tax minimization strategies remain strong options for the off-shore investor.

Therefore, we have aligned ourselves with professionals in off-shore nations and in the USA that take a conservative position on tax and yet are open to facilitating asset protection with the assistance of off-shore entities.

We are happy to share our perspectives and findings on this topic with you.

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Barriers to finding emerging market real estate are high. Traveling to areas such as Panama, Central America, where the opportunities are often involve unique challenges running the gamut from stress related to cultural differences as fundamental as the inability to converse with another person to enjoying the risk of death from disease or poisonous animal.

We’re not saying the areas we go are not relatively safe to the natives, but, due to our immunological differences, and lack of savvy in how to live in remote places, the foreign first-world investor takes on personal risk when attempting to do business in a foreign nation.

From the Board Room to the Jungle

An opportunity builder in emerging markets must possess a rare and eclectic group of talents. This person must have experience and comfort in the 50th floor board room, at ease discussing technology server-stack room with the tech people on the third-floor, conversing and sleeping with a team of tough foreign laborers or scouts in the jungle. We almost don’t exist as a business-person demographic.

You have to like it –and not many do. We sleep in remote, risky places. We regularly get ill or suffer minor injuries. We love it. We’re successful in this type of venture because few would take on what’s required to find the opportunities. That’s our opportunity. We enjoy being here because of the adventure.

ETI is successful for a number of reasons –an important one of these is because there are few people are able or willing to do what we do. We don’t see “traditional” business people developing emerging market opportunities.

As we meet and get to know our contemporaries in business –the others having come to Panama to develop investments for first-world investors, they are, as a group fronteir-types: quick-witted, tough, independent, extremely flexible and creative.

When we’re investigating opportunities, we hang out with leather-skinned missionaries, Peace Corps workers, local scouts.

Our biggest economic opportunity is that we’re developing business where few are willing to go –we love creating opportunity in this environment, and knowing not many others would; we have a financially powerful niche opportunity.

We at ETI have extensive experience creating and managing real estate opportunities in the United States of America. Nonetheless, several years ago we became wary investing in United States real estate; at the same time we became very attracted to investing in real estate in emerging economies.

We were excited as we discovered lucrative opportunities in Panama. We found that we loved the challenges and rewards of investing in this market. After some analysis, we moved our investment portfolio to Panama.

Our reasons for the move are detailed in this site.

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When people consider investing internationally, they often are looking for high-yield investments and are willing to accept some risk for reward in these markets.

We also believe that emerging markets also possess very strong lower-risk lower yield investments. Because of this, we have created a class of investment opportunities we call “capital preservation motivated” real estate investments. These opportunities are specially geared in light of the present economic circumstances to provide investment options for the security minded investor.

We’ve adopted a preferred strategy for our capital preservation investments. For these opportunities we look to purchase raw land situated in strategic locations near economically growing areas. We will purchase the land and hold the property for approximately five years expecting to enjoy the natural appreciation of the property realized due to the gradual growth of the regional economy over 5 year segments of time. We believe the economy of favored areas of Latin America is a reasonable and conservative expectation due to many factors including the growth of the middle class in these locales.

We also believe our capital preservation strategy represents a simple and conservative investment strategy.

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