In conversation with Parag Khanna, Global Strategy Advisor, Author and Founder of FutureMap China has long been viewed as Asia’s anchor economy, but the focus of global growth is fast shifting towards Southeast Asia. The IM Yearbook spoke with Parag Khanna about the Western perception of Asia, the rise of Southeast Asia and how it […]
Interview with Chad Ellsworth, Partner at Fragomen. Fragomen’s Chad Ellsworth believes that governments will implement a greater number of entrepreneur visa programmes to attract foreign innovators who can help with economic recovery and job creation in the post-Covid-19 era. We are seeing an increasing number of entrepreneurial visa programmes being launched. What’s driving this trend? […]
Interview with Brenda Floissac Fleming, Senior Partner at the firm Floissac Fleming & Associates and Managing Director of Polaris Citizenship & Investment Consultancy Services in St. Lucia & Keith Isaac, attorney at-law at the firm Floissac Fleming & Associates and General Manager of Polaris Citizenship & InvestmentConsultancy Services in St. Lucia. The Caribbean CBI industry […]
Special feature: Antigua & Barbuda The outlook for sunny Antigua and Barbuda has become cloudy due to the outbreak of Covid-19, but the Caribbean island nation is determined to make the most out of new opportunities. Its citizenship-by-investment programme is going to play a key role in defining what the country is going to look […]
Covid-19 will transform the investment migration market and will accelerate the already existing trend of regionalisation, says Prof. Kristin Surak from the London School of Economics and author of the forthcoming book Citizenship 4 Sale. The Covid-19 pandemic has challenged international mobility like no other event before. What observations about the investment migration industry during […]
Authors: Bruno L’ecuyer Source: ifcreview.com Over the past few years, investment migration – the industry intertwined with global wealth creation and people’s movement – has been defined by growth and expansion to reach an estimated value of €20 billion[i]. According to Investment Migration Council (IMC) research, 100 countries around the world now offer legal investment migration […]
Authors: Christian Henrik Nesheim Source: imidaily.org Decades from today, when industry historians recount the events of 2020, they will undoubtedly characterize the year as a pivotal one for investment migration. It was the year in which the RCBI-market, for the first time, appeared within the purview of the “rich-world rich” on a grand scale. In the […]
Authors: FRANCISCA FERNANDO and JONATHAN PAMPOLINA are counsels and ROBIN SYKES is a senior counsel in the IMF’s Legal Department Source: imf.org Programs that offer passports in return for investment have financial integrity risks that must be managed As countries closed their borders to slow the spread of COVID-19, a second passport became an ever-more-desirable […]
Authors: Russell Scarcella, Vice President, Exiger & Karen Kelly, Director, Strategy & Development, Exiger A necessary component of any residency or citizenship by investment (RCBI) program is a comprehensive and multi-tiered due diligence regime. Industry experts agree that this should include engaging international due diligence specialists to perform enhanced background checks on each program applicant. […]
Author: Marie Lou Cutajar, IMC Education & Training Administrator IMC Education and Training (IMCET) is the division within the Investment Migration Council specifically developed to design and implement online e-learning course materials, which lead to globally recognised qualifications within this vibrant IM sector. The first such course available and accessible to all globally has been […]
