Chapter 17 -  What You Need To Know About Real Estate & Terrorism Risk

Chapter 18 -  Solutions To New Regulatory Burdens and Risks
Case Study # 10 Inadequate Due Diligence
Case Study # 11  Be Careful When Banking Offshore
Case Study # 12  The Snitch Factor

Section Five - How To Build Safe Protected Wealth

Chapter 19 - New & Enhanced Post 9/11 Wealth Planning & Protection Techniques

Chapter 20 - How To Choose an Investment Or Wealth Planning Advisor 

Chapter 21 - The Swiss Inner Circle

Chapter 22 - Other Global Consultants, Publications & Organizations 

Section Six - You’ve Protected Your Wealth Now Restore Your Liberty 
 
Chapter 23 -  Back To The Articles: Restoring the Republic With the Swiss Confederation Institute     

Chapter 24 – FreedomFest: Where Free Minds Meet  

Chapter 25- Don't Delay: Start Today To Preserve Your Wealth & Liberty  

Chapter 26 - Are You Willing To Pay the High Price For Freedom?  

Case Studies  

Resource Guide  

About the Author  

 

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THE SWISS Preserve SOLUTION
How To Preserve What Is Yours!  Ron Holland's politically incorrect guide to defending your wealth & liberty
from internal and external threats in our new 21st Century. 

 

Chapter 25 – Do Not Delay: Start Today To Preserve Your Wealth & Liberty

Talking Points:   A delay in protecting your personal or political liberty can often be overcome by working harder in the future, but delaying the strategies to protect your wealth until the threat is imminent usually means you've lost the opportunity.

The Question You Never Hear: What Could Go Wrong?

"Fish see the bait, but not the hook; men see the profit, but not the peril."  -  Chinese Proverb

       Forget all the investment performance promises and claims of past successes before you decide to invest with a new bank, advisor, or financial institution.  None of these statistics or promises matters because it is all in the past.  Also, often the very worst investment decision you can make is to choose an investment strategy or manager that has led the pack during the pervious year. Although far too many investors believe the only way for an investment to go down is for them to buy it, usually this is a result of chasing last years top performers rather than any bad luck or investment curse.

       So what can go wrong with a new, legal, and transparent asset protection strategy or product? (The key word here is legal.) Let us say that you want a fresh start and fully intend to follow all the reporting, tax, and disclosure rules now oozing out of the Washington regulators. With such great intentions, what could go wrong?

Washington Always Changes the Rules Again and Again!

       To repeat myself, Washington always changes the rules.  We must assume that new legislation will change the rules since this has happened many times in the past.  Sometimes you are "grandfathered in", but usually the results are more taxes and less deductions. American citizens end up with greatly reduced financial opportunities and financial freedoms. Those with structures or investments who assume the rules will always remain the same will find that changes increase their legal costs and reduce the perceived benefits promised in the first place.  What is important for investors is to choose structures and products with little or no front end fees, and minimal ongoing legal charges.  These qualities ensure that when they have to be updated, this can be done quickly, efficiently, and at a minimum of cost.

       This is another reason why this book is published online. We will provide regular e-mail notifications of updates in text, examples, and strategies, in order to alert readers of new threats to their wealth and provide cutting edge solutions.

Be Ready For an Unexpected Lawsuit.

       Hopefully you will never be sued, but my philosophy is that it is better to be safe than sorry.  You may feel that all this effort to properly secure your wealth is a waste of time and money, but this is a mistake I believe we all could live with.  Many investors will find that taking the effort to build an ironclad wealth preservation program will dramatically drop even the risk of a future lawsuit. 

       Remember there is plenty of easy, non-protected money out there for the taking.  Subsequently, a secure, offshore asset protection program often encourages the plaintiff and his pack of ambulance chasing attorneys to go after easy prey they can catch, rather than engaging in a long chase with an uncertain end. Litigation attorneys are not in this for the chase unless a plaintiff is paying by the hour. If they are paid on contingency basis they want a sure winner or they will refuse to take the case.

Nothing Goes Up Forever Except Taxes

       Just because a particular investment strategy or portfolio has performed positively in the past does not mean that future performance will be the same.  Remember to utilize an investment strategy and investment advisor that shares your vision for the future.  For example, if you have believed and invested in the U.S. stock market in the past but you share my concern about the terrorist threat to New York City and Wall Street, then I would not recommend a major concentration in U.S. equities.  

So How Do You Protect Your Strategy? 

       Never place all of your assets in one single, investment strategy or with one advisor.  Always diversify among investments, advisors, currencies, markets, and jurisdictions to reduce your risk and portfolio volatility, while increasing your chances for portfolio appreciation. Simply stay one step ahead of those after your wealth and keep in mind that certain aspects of your portfolio or strategy may have to be amended or updated in the future. This has always been the case, so rather than being a negative this is simply part of the battle you must deal with in defending your wealth.

       You may or may not be faced with a lawsuit or unwarranted asset seizure, just as another terrorist attack may or may not happen.  Nonetheless, whatever happens in the future and whatever your specific concerns are, a secure, well-diversified wealth preservation program will allow you to sleep more comfortably at night.

How to Get Started

"To succeed is to anticipate the future with a strategy."          -- Armand Hammer

       You might think it strange to begin this section with a quote from a well known leftist businessman who, it has been revealed during recent years following his death, was a lifelong Soviet agent against the west.  However, I think this is appropriate.  Undoubtedly, Armand Hammer was an enemy of freedom, liberty, and all of the capitalist and moral traditions many of us in the United States and Europe hold dear. Yet he survived in business and espionage with these suspicions until the end of his disgusting life.  There is no question, given his activities, that in order to stay ahead of the authorities he planned for his future and the many variables that could have landed him in prison or with the death penalty.  He constantly updated his strategy and plan of action to counter the many threats against him.

       As productive private citizens in the early years of the 21^st Century, we too must plan for the unknown and probably future assaults on our wealth and freedoms.  Just as Armand Hammer lived and worked inside an alien quasi-capitalist United States, productive, freedom-loving people also live in an environment of envy, government controls, and restrictions. We must watch our every word and entrepreneurial action in the context of the multiple regulatory agency rules, potential litigants, and snooping bureaucrats all out to curtail our personal, economic and financial freedoms.

       How do we get started in protecting our assets, preserving our wealth, and returning liberty, free-markets and limited constitutional government in the United States and other nations?

"Never keep all your wealth in the country where you live.  Keep part of your assets hidden.  Only then will you know that you own something somewhere that the government isn’t going to get its hands on."         -- Harry Browne

Determine Which Institutes & Foundations Deserve Your Tax Deductible Contributions.

       Remember, all asset protection and financial strategies are only a delaying action at best, unless we can educate the citizenry about the benefits of limited government, capitalism, and the sanctity of private property.  Check out our links and recommendations to the many 501 ©3 organizations worthy of your contributions. Make sure you contact and contribute to organizations that share your views and vision of the future. Click here for my suggested 501(c)3 educational foundations and institutes.

My Preferred Pro-Liberty Foundations, Institutes & Events

Conservative
The Heritage Foundation                             www.heritage.com
Swiss Confederation Institute                      www.swissconfederationinstitute.org

Libertarian
Future of Freedom Foundation                   www.fff.org
LewRockwell.com                                       www.lewrockwell.com
Anti-War.com                                              www.anti-war.com

Free-Market
Ludwig von Mises Institute                          www.mises.org
Foundation for Economic Education           www.fee.org
Cato Institute                                               www.cato.org

Attend the Annual FreedomFest Convention - www.freedomfest.com

       FreedomFest is an annual festival where "free minds meet" to celebrate "great books, great ideas, and great thinkers" in a liberal, open-minded society.  It is independent, non-partisan, and not affiliated with any organization or think tank.  Founded and produced by Mark Skousen since 2002, FreedomFest invites the "best and the brightest" from around the world to talk, strategize, socialize, and celebrate liberty.  FreedomFest is open to all and is purely egalitarian, where speakers, attendees, and exhibitors are treated as equals. 

Help Others Learn Lean How To Defend Their Wealth and Help Restore Liberty – Please send information on the book to your freedom-oriented friends and associates, as well as the URL to our online version.  You can send our Book Description & Promotion out to your friends by e-mail by simply clicking the following link:  Check the new online book, "The Swiss Preserve Solution" at  www.swissconfederationinstitute.org/swisspreservesolutionsignup.htm 

Delay Can Be Fatal

"For all the sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, “It might have been!” - John Greenleaf Whittier

       Procrastination is a basic trait and attitude of all human beings. Some of us are more inclined to put things off until the last possible moment than others. As for me, I am totally eaten up with this trait, hence the reason I am still working on this book manuscript only two weeks before it must be completed.

       There are many aspects of life and financial affairs that can indeed be postponed.  In fact, occasionally, by putting stuff off that we do not find enjoyable or necessary, sometimes we never have to deal with the activity at all.  I find this is the case all the time with my wife:  if I do not pick up my clothes or straighten out my office, eventually out of necessity for her, she will deal with those things which I neither notice nor let concern me in the slightest.

       This kind of delay may be appropriate in some instance, but it does not work regarding any aspect of wealth or asset protection. Almost none of the many threats to your wealth or liberty can be solved or protected after the fact. For example, after a lawsuit is filed, there is little you can legally do to protect your assets due to the rules of fraudulent conveyance. There is no way to protect your assets after an investment market collapse, and in fact, most quick-fix solutions too late in the game often make the situation even worse. The same goes for protecting your wealth from government actions or closed markets, should terrorists attack the American financial infrastructure and markets.  If there is no liquidity with closed markets and frozen bank accounts, there will be no way out for investors caught in a closure of the American investment markets for the duration of the crisis. Finally, you can not defend against the consequences of an improper offshore account structure once the structure is deemed inappropriate or illegal. You must fix these kinds of accidents waiting to happen before it is too late.  

       The time to take action to protect your assets from lawsuit, seizure, closed markets, or improper offshore accounts is today.  Do so before you are left without options and the freedom to take action. Delay can be fatal to both your wealth and your basic freedom.

       If you are a reader who waits and does nothing, do not waste the time and cost of a phone call to me, when an unwarranted lawsuit hits, a divorce takes place, or the markets are closed due to a financial crisis or terrorist WMD attack. By then it will indeed be too late for you, for your wealth, and for you to exercise your former personal, political, or financial freedoms. 

            In summary, take some kind of action today-- not tomorrow, next week, or next month--to protect your wealth, because there are many groups and individuals out there who can only exist and survive by stealing your wealth.  If you are a high net worth investor or have substantial savings and investments, then consider yourself and your wealth a target of opportunity. Do not wait until you are caught in the crosshairs of a wealth attack.  Instead, defend yourself now while you still have the opportunity.

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Timing is everything on the threats we face to our wealth. If you wait until the falling dollar becomes the nightly news headline on the major television networks, then you've waited too late. After the next major terrorist attack on the U.S. will be too late to diversify your investments internationally because the American markets may well be closed until the end of the crisis when it will be too late to do anything. - Ron Holland

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