Are you wondering which portion of the current marketplace is the most profitable area of the market to place your funds? If you are searching for the areas of market that holds the most promise for investors, you should certainly be investigating the potential of initial public offering/IPO opportunities.

As you likely already know, IPO stocks present a very unique opportunity for anyone who is investing into the open market. If you have the opportunity to invest in one of these stocks, you will be able to purchase the investment before the rest of the market has found the opportunity to do so. For this reason, you can be sure you are entering the stock at a very good time, for the company is about to experience a fairly large surge in the amount of a recognition it receives from the overall marketplace.

Even though the IPO stocks are generally a fairly decent investment when it comes to the timing of your purchase, you should still investigate a few factors to ensure you are entering a valuable investment. The basic premise of your research will be based on uncovering whether or not the stock is being sold for two high of a price and whether or not the stock will increase in value over time.

As you may already know, IPO investments are often the most difficult investments to assess. On many occasions there is a limited amount of information relative to the company’s operations, as well as … READ MORE ...

The Hong Kong Capital Investment Entrant Scheme was first launched in October 2003. The objective of the program is to allow reasonably well-off people to come to HK and take up residency without needing to join in or establish an operating business. The Scheme rules are reviewed by the Immigration Department on a regular basis.

To qualify for this capital investment visa, 10 Million Hong Kong Dollars is required to be invested in ‘qualifying investments’ (which does not include real estate).

The essential cut and thrust of the Capital Investment Entrant Scheme (“CIES”) means that if you invest HK $10 million cash into Hong Kong’s economy, you will be able to procure a visa to take up residence in the HKSAR.

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In the first instance you will secure a two-year period of stay which is then, subject to having maintained the 10 million HKD in the qualifying investments, extendable every two years for up to seven years. Once you get to 7 years continuous ordinary residence, you can apply for permanent residence.

Even if you have not in fact resided in Hong Kong in all of that time, but have maintained the visa status nonetheless, you will be able to secure ‘unconditional stay’ and in the process free up the HKD10m investment for deployment elsewhere. Namely, by then it will have served the process of procuring your residency in the HKSAR with no further strings attached.

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A lot of people these days are trying to start their own business. However, there is one constantly persistent problem, which haunts the dreams of everybody – where do I get money?

There are a lot of opportunities, and most head for the so-called Venture capital or Risk capital investors, who are ready to feed you with a hefty amount of money, provided that you appeal to them. This is no easy task, and you will probably have to wage bloody competition with around a 1000 other enthusiasts. However, once you are in for the interview, you have a real fighting chance.

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The first step along the way is application. This is the biggest fight, as you will most commonly not have any social interactions with the investors at this level, and you will need to prove that you are good only in text and video form.

You should prepare your business plan well, lay it out in as little words as possible, and make sure that you are not selling monkey diapers, because we all know this idea failed a long time ago. A good YouTube clip is always a great idea, because they would like to see your face and hear your voice.

And that is it – you are called for an interview, you are set, you are the greatest!

Well, it does not work like that. Even if you manage to fight off the first 900, you will be called to an interview with … READ MORE ...