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Finding the middle ground as a conservative offshore investor

a number of our clients have recently approached us with a common predicament. They want to invest offshore for all the right strategic reasons, but they don’t want to take on too much risk. The result is that they simply don’t know where to allocate their capital in the current environment. And it is because they are faced with the following conundrum:

Record-high stocks and record-low yields

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