These lessons apply to offshore funds as much as they do to U.S. funds.
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The fund has also appeared on FORBES GLOBAL's lists of top offshore funds on several occasions.
Offshore funds try to avoid the regulations of the domicile in which they're based.
Meanwhile, tens of billions of dollars are certainly finding their way into the offshore funds set up by some oil producers.
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The parliamentary draft appears to ban EU investors from placing money with any offshore funds that do not meet European rules.
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For investors interested in open-ended offshore funds, the five listed in the table above are some of the best performers over the past three years.
To be sure, the presence of large Russian and offshore funds in Cypriot banks is cause for a different format than those used in other peripheral countries.
Over the past two years Robertson Stephens purchased shares so that private clients could in turn invest in Leisure Canada through either the Robertson Stephens Orphan or Orphan Offshore funds.
Over the last two years, Robertson Stephens purchased shares so that private clients could in turn invest in a sliver of Leisure Canada through either the Robertson Stephens Orphan or Orphan Offshore funds.
Offshore investment funds are done right for the most part, especially the bigger ones.
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That should include territoriality, and tax amnesty for repatriation of the trillions of legally offshore corporate funds.
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Fitzrovia calculates that while the number of offshore equity funds has doubled since 1993, the size of the average fund is unchanged.
That gave offshore hedge funds a chance to establish themselves.
Their aims were to make it harder for short-term portfolio investors to sell their shares and reap the proceeds, and for offshore hedge funds to drive down the currency.
In America three-quarters of onshore hedge funds have offshore clones, mainly because hedge funds with foreign investors, who are not required to pay taxes on their hedge-fund investments in America, would still need to file America's unwieldy tax returns if they invested onshore.
Guy's Gartmore Capital Strategy Continental Europe fund charges total expenses of 1.59% annually, less than the 1.86% average for the 558 offshore European equity funds tracked by Fitzrovia International.
The new legislation would allow U.S. corporations holding money offshore to repatriate those funds at a reduced tax rate.
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Actually, one of the biggest offshore destinations for Japanese funds is Brazil.
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These facts, and the possibility that the defendant could get a contempt-of-court citation for failing to disgorge funds from offshore accounts, give plaintiffs some leverage.
Although the 2012 OVDI penalty regime may seem overly harsh for many, the decision to participate should include an economic analysis of the taxpayers projected future earning power that could be generated from the funds held offshore.
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This executive said many U.S. forex dealers currently use offshore platforms and affiliates for segregation of funds in the UK for asset protection purposes.
"Taxable investors, especially in hedge funds, owe it to themselves to look offshore, " he says.
In addition to investing in private equity firms run by Credit Suisse, like DLJ Offshore Partners IV, Reijtenbagh invested in big buyout and real estate opportunity funds, some of which are believed to have been hit hard by the markets.
The watchdog acknowledges that it will never have the manpower to monitor hedge funds adequately, and that it can do little about entities registered offshore.
Britain's chancellor of the exchequer, Gordon Brown, recently suggested that offshore centres are potentially the weakest link in the struggle to cut off terrorist funds.
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"We often advise our funds, especially those with swaps or high leverage, to organize as an offshore vehicle for U.S. investors because of the tax advantages, " he says.
So the prohibition won't in theory prevent hedge funds and other investors short-selling French and Italian banks, for example, through offshore exchanges.
Funds with at least a billion dollars under management that are headquartered there (and often domiciled offshore in places like the Cayman Islands for tax and regulatory purposes) represented 46.6% of global assets managed by similarly sized funds in January of this year.
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