Category: International Diversification Strategies

In September 1968, after four decades iron-fisted rule, Portugal’s de facto dictator, António de Oliveira Salazar, suffered a freak accident that caused a massive brain hemorrhage. Miraculously he survived. But he never recovered from the injury, and his enemies seized on the opportunity to remove him from power. Salazar had ruled since 1932.

[Editor’s note: This letter was written by Viktorija, our Sovereign Woman.] My experience with ridiculous government overreach began literally on the day I was born. It was more than three decades ago, in the tiny Soviet Socialist Republic of Lithuania, back when the Soviet Union still existed. As my mother tells the story,

If the idea of packing up and leaving has crossed your mind lately, you certainly aren’t alone. With so many people across the globe staring at a new wave of COVID lockdowns, higher taxes, more chaos in their cities, etc., heading out for greener pastures is a really attractive proposition, especially now that

The former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, will be one of the last people to receive citizenship in Cyprus through the country’s Citizenship by Investment program. Schmidt’s name showed up on Cyprus’s list of approved applications in October, around the same time Cyprus announced it was suspending the program. Remember- Cyprus essentially went

Canada has been busy for weeks creating contingency plans for tomorrow’s US Presidential election. A lot of Canadians seem worried that their country will be inundated by violent, plague-infested Americans fleeing the election results. That’s probably a bit of a stretch. But this does seem to be a recurring theme. Every four years

Last Tuesday night, around 10:30pm the Google search term, “How to apply for Canadian citizenship,” spiked. Other popular searches that night included “how to move to Canada” or simply, “move to Canada.” This was in response to two men in their 70s childishly bickering at each other for an hour and a half,

At the turn of the 20th century, the United States had recently become the largest economy in the world… and it was showing. The US had just vanquished Spain in the Spanish-American War, resulting in a vast new American colonial empire, stretching from the Philippines to Puerto Rico. And it was just the

[Editor’s note: This letter was written by Viktorija, our Sovereign Woman] If Simon were writing this letter, I have no doubt he would start off telling you a wonderful tale dating back thousands of years to Turkey’s ancient history… probably something about the Trojan War. I’ve always been a fan of Simon’s historical

California’s governor made a rather ominous prediction this weekend when he told an interviewer that “California is America. . . fast forward.” He was talking specifically about the wildfires that have ravaged his state– a warning that the natural disasters will soon plague the rest of the country too, thanks to climate change.

[Editor’s note: This letter was written by our Sovereign Woman—Viktorija.] Just like Simon, I’m probably one of the world’s worst tourists. When I travel somewhere, I prefer to experience real life in the country or city that I’m visiting. So my schedule is usually full of meetings and networking with local entrepreneurs, attorneys,

British Petroleum announced this week that ALL 6,500 employees in its London office will be working from home within the next two years. BP is even going to shut down the office entirely and sell the building. They’re not the only ones. Right now, in fact, only 13% of London office workers are

[Editor’s note: This letter was written by our Sovereign Woman—Viktorija.] I grew up in a small village in Lithuania, raised by a single mother. So you can probably imagine my childhood was not one of wealth and luxury. Just like when Simon was growing up, money was always tight and a constant source

Albert Einstein is rumored to have said that “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it … he who doesn’t … pays it.” These days interest rates are near zero. The average savings account currently pays .09% interest per year, according to the FDIC. So over

Warren Buffett’s holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, didn’t outperform the S&P 500 last year. Berkshire Hathaway grew slightly in 2019, but its performance lagged far behind the S&P 500 stock market index. That’s an anomaly for Buffett. He’s handily outperformed the S&P 500 for decades, endearing himself to millions of investors along the way.

Bernd Lünser was by all accounts a popular, promising student. He was studying civil engineering at the State Engineering School of Architecture in West Berlin in 1961. Unfortunately, he lived in East Berlin. And during the summer break of that year, the Berlin Wall was completed, shutting off access from Western administered West

In 663 BC, King Ashurbanipal of the Assyrian Empire invaded Egypt and sacked the city of Waset (located in modern day Luxor on the Nile River). Ashurbanipal vanquished the city, purportedly seizing more than 75 metric tons of silver for his personal collection. At the time in the ancient world, the prevailing ratio

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On Friday evening, the government here in Puerto Rico made an announcement to local retirees that many of them would have their pensions cut. Poof. Just like that. The pension cut is part of a debt restructuring plan to help Puerto Rico emerge from bankruptcy, which they declared in May 2017. Bankruptcy is

In a concept paper called “Treat Wealth Like Wages”, the ranking member of the US Senate Finance Committee laid out a plan late last week to radically overhaul the tax code in a way never before seen. Just as you’d expect from the title, his central idea is to tax wealth; if you

Lately I’ve been looking at a number of office buildings in San Juan– I own two businesses that are based here in Puerto Rico, and it’s about time the team moved to a larger space. I was really impressed with what I saw– there are a number of compelling new commercial real estate

Our annual Sovereign Academy is just around the corner. Each year, I invite the most talented entrepreneurs I know to teach and mentor a group of 50 young people from around the world. The camp is entirely free for students – I pay for everything myself out of pocket. It’s also one of

There seems to be an unwritten rule with lawmakers that, every time they create a terrible piece of legislation, they give it the most noble-sounding name. The USA PATRIOT Act from 2001 was a great example. It sounds great. Who wouldn’t love a law named for Patriots? And yet that was easily among