Secrets of Swiss Banking: An Owner's Manual to Quietly Building a Fortune |  | Manufacturer: Wiley
Category: EBooks
List Price: $39.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 8273
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.6731
Publication Date: February 4, 2008
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Product Description
In Secrets of Swiss Banking, offshore financial specialist Hoyt Barber shows how to protect your hard-earned assets by safely and legally moving your money into trusted Swiss financial institutions. Along with timely banking advice and solid investment insights, Barber provides authoritative information on a variety of Swiss banking-related issues—from the basics of opening an account to the nuances of numerous Swiss banking and investment strategies. He also details Swiss banking policies and regulations along with U.S. tax and reporting requirements.
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 good book with a caveat October 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book should certainly tell you all you need to know about Swiss banking and investments - now if he had only kept his endless political biases to himself I would have added a star. It would also be wise to check online for intermediaries who can help. CAUTION: Some charge a fee, but not all. Choose the latter!
 Political Ranting May 21, 2008
3 out of 10 found this review helpful
The author uses this book to go off on rants about the Iraq War and Gorge W. Bush, topics that have nothing to do with Swiss Banking.
 An excellent insider's treatment of the topic, and more... March 24, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This well-written work is the only book on this topic that I have been able to find in years, and, thankfully is a worthy successor to Harry Browne's landmark work, "The Complete Guide to Swiss Banks," which was published in 1976. Of course since then, times have changed, and Hoyt Barber's book is up-to-the-minute. It explores some solid investment options available to North Americans in Switzerland and other venues, including the broader picture of foreign currencies, precious metals, economics, estate planning, asset protection, and secure offshore investments.
This is a solid financial work, but also offers readable and entertaining commentary on the times.
Good resource but ignore the paranoia March 22, 2008
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
If you want a concise resource about Swiss (and other off shore) banking, then this is a good - no, make that great - resource from a reputable publisher. The author covers not only Swiss banks, but other top countries world wide known for advantageous bank laws for uncertain times.
Though some automatically think of tax evasion when the subject of Swiss banking arises, the perfectly legal possibility of converting your savings into Swiss Francs could be a good hedge against a falling dollar. The book is marketed to US and Canadian audiences, so legally some of the suggestions might mean different things to different people. Therefore, do not act on his word without checking your tax status with a knowledgeable source.
The only negative would be the paranoia in the early part of the book, such as on p26 where the author suggests that the North American Union might be brought about with the aid of a "conveniently timed terrorist attack." This on its face is paranoid, but if it's meant to suggest that the terrorist attacks of 9-11 were somehow planned, then that makes it flat out stupid as well. Therein lies the problem with any book that even approaches this subject: even without such outlandish claims, the mere discussion of fiscal policy as it relates to world events will invariably offend the politics of many readers. At that point, one needs to put aside the political baggage and get past the politics and pay attention to the strategy for preserving wealth.
Even if the author truly believes in conspiracy theories (or if he only wants to cater to the tin foil hat wearing crowd), it doesn't take away from the value throughout the book. It's an uncommonly good find among personal finance books.
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