Join Jason Hartman as he interviews Josh VanDyk, investment adviser located in the Cayman Islands, about life in the Cayman Islands, where there are nearly 600 banks and trust companies, including 43 of the world’s 50 largest banks. Jason and Josh discuss the scrutiny by the U.S. government, the reasons people wish to invest offshore, and some of the best options and advantages for going offshore.

They also talk about the necessity and risks of asset protection, addressing different mechanisms for moving the assets out of your name and how to access it. Josh explains the various types of products available for international investors. Due to so many regulations in the U.S., hedge funds, mutual funds, etc, find it too expensive and too tedious to do business in the United States, so many funds are tailored for international investing. Jason and Josh also explore the reasons why so many people are taking their IRAs offshore and what is involved in doing so.

Joshua VanDyk specializes in offshore hedge funds, portfolio/asset management, foreign currencies, natural resources, precious metals, and brokerage. His services assist in raising financial capital for IPO’s, private placement and investment banking. After completing studies at Michigan State University he moved to Chicago, and began working as a licensed broker in the futures and currency markets. He spent four years in GFT’s private client group advising clients on futures and currencies markets. He went on to obtain his Series 7 license for stocks, bonds and options trading and began working in the active trader group at TradeStation Securities.

Join Jason Hartman as he interviews Investment Director and Editor of The Sovereign Individual, Jeff Opdyke. While the middle class is shrinking in the United States, Jeff shares his global observations of a new emerging middle class in other previously oppressed countries, such as Asia and Africa, and how online international trading is becoming so much easier to do.

Jeff and Jason talk about the various pockets in different countries that are becoming more attractive to foreign investors, the ease or difficulty of investing in real estate in those areas, and how rates of return compare with the United States. Despite the economic condition of the United States, investing here is still the easiest and most affordable, offering higher rates of return on investment. But as things continue to change around the world, more and more global markets may become friendlier to foreign investors. Jeff says looking for these lucrative pockets is one way to approach real estate investing overseas.

Jeff D. Opdyke is the Investment Director and Editor of The Sovereign Individual, and an Emerging Market Strategist and Global Growth Strategist. As a lifelong world traveler, Jeff has been investing directly in the international markets since 1995, making him one of the true pioneers of foreign trading. These days, he is the editor of the Emerging Market Strategist investment advisory and The Sovereign Individual, the Sovereign Society’s monthly asset protection and investment newsletter.