Standard & Poor's Guide to Offshore Investment Funds [Paperback]

Robert B. Milroy (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 7, 2000

The Standard & Poor's Micropal Guide to Offshore Investment Funds is for anyone who has considered placing money in offshore investment funds. The Guide covers all you need to know about offshore collective investment vehicles including mutual funds, unit trusts, OEICs and closed-ended funds, taking you from the basics through to detailed fund analysis.

- Performance returns on over 7,600 offshore funds
- Detailed profiles on the top 350 offshore funds for 1999
- First quarter investment performance results2000
- Most frequently asked questions about offshore funds
- Step by step education on investing offshore
- Comprehensive fund management directory
- USA, UK, Australia, Japan and Canada tax reviews by leading tax specialists
- Fitzrovia International Limited - Total expense rations
- Standard & Poor's Micropal Star TM - outperformance consistency ranking
- Standard & Poor's Fund Research Fund Ratings
- Sharpe Ratios rating a fund's risk-adjusted performance

Editorial Reviews

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...the guide presents the facts and insight necessary to make informed investment decisions. -- Scott Lines, Managing Director, Lines Overseas Management, Bermuda

An invaluable resource for the professional, it makes sense of the complex and varied universe offshore funds. -- Stuart Fieldhouse, Editor, Offshore Financial Review, London

By far the most comprehensive and established directory on offshore funds I've ever seen. -- Eric Naimer-Roseman, Founder & Editor, Global Mutual Fund Investor, Montreal

From individuals to institutions, whoever seriously considers offshore fund investments, no other directory is more resourceful or comprehensive -- Makoto Konishi, Associate Director, GNI Limited, London

Serious investors have to consider the cost-efficiency and sheer variety of offshore funds. The guide is the definitive offshore reference -- Milroy leads the way. - Jonathan Chevreau, Columnist, National Post

The Guide is the Bible for fund investors, even those who never step offshore. -- Vivian Lewis, Editor, Gobal Investing, New York

This is such a professional investor guide for offshore funds. I would highly recommend this to Japanese investors. -- Ryo Suzuki, Chief Correspondent, The Nihon Keizai Shimbun [NIKKEI], Tokyo

About the Author

Robert B. Milroy is a world renown offshore fund analyst and Managing Director, Milroy and Associates Limited, a Guernsey regulated private asset a management firm that specializes in servicing international clients with a special emphasis on offshore investment funds. He has over 30 year's wide-ranging, international investment experience. He started his career as a financial oil analyst in his native Canada before going on to hold senior positions in research, underwriting and venture capital financing, retail investment brokerage and portfolio management. He is a popular speaker on radio and TV shows featuring security investments and conducts offshore investment seminars worldwide. He has strategically aligned his offshore investment fund expertise with the data collection skills of Standard & Poor's to successfully launch a series of publications directed toward the offshore financial investor.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 585 pages
• Publisher: International Offshore Publications Limited; 5th edition (July 7, 2000)
• ISBN-10: 0952855828
• ISBN-13: 978-0952855828
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,937,138 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: Standard & Poor's Guide to Offshore Investment Funds (Paperback)

I have been trying to get a basic understanding of the offshore fund industry over the past two years. Other publications pale in comparison with this Bible. Its over 585 pages and if weight is any indication of valued content the Guide has hit the jack pot. Yes its well worth the price.

This is a valued reference is for anyone who has considered placing money in offshore investment funds. It includes explanations to what they are and where they located including information on over 7600 funds and the Top 350 Performing Funds with contact details - many with web sites - for all of them.

Milroy has taken this rather elusive topic, exposed it and put this critical information into the hands of every day people and for this I am very thankful.

Now it is not just the rich and powerful who have this information.