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Are you looking for the security of the Swiss franc, combined with finish Swiss asset protection, (including bankruptcy), enormous investment flexibility, privacy - where your financial affairs are known only to you - as well as the probability control your own investments? If so, then the Consumer's Guide to Swiss Annuities is for you.

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12 of 14 persons found the following review helpful.
Swiss Annuities -- Finally an answer to investing that makes perfective sense
By Russell Greenberg
This booklet in regards to the respective types and vantages of Swiss Annuities actually turned on the light for me regarding an substitute choice for investing. I have expended galore sleepless nights for the duration of the last few years worrying regarding how my 401K has eroded into a 201K, so I was thrilled to learn when it comes to what seems to be a much safer and smarter choice to safeguard and grow my life's savings.

Mr. Meillard's style is goal to be attained and explanatory in an easy-to-follow outline structure -- with lots of charts that re-tell the story. It was interesting to learn in regards to the history of Swiss Annuities and how the Swiss persons and government take a fairer viewpoint regarding account privacy and bankruptcy shelter -- one that protects you not ruins you. It was also surprising to learn when it comes to why the Swiss franc proceeds to increase in value relative to most of the world's other currencies -- particularly the U.S. dollar.

The Consumers Guide to Swiss Annuities booklet does an magnificent occupation of explaining the respective types and potential vantages of Swiss annuities. I was in particular mesmerized when it comes to a new type of annuity called the Swiss Private Placement Annuity. This investment structure appears to be the idealisti solution for investment flexibleness and safety. It has all the old vantages of Swiss Annuities -- such as Swiss francs conversion, creditor shelter and low fees -- along with the huge vantage of opening up all the world's investment opportunities. It was likewise freshening to learn that investing in Switzerland is easy and not considered a bad thing -- but rather a smart choice by a great deal of savvy U.S. investors.

Because of the ongoing nightmare of huge bailouts that will surely be excessive damage and destruction for generations, Economics 101 must tell us there's little doubt that inflation in the U.S. will rise and the U.S. dollar we get weaker -- specially versus more stable world currencies like the Swiss franc. The booklet not only showed me the right currency to put my hard earned money, but it likewise explained the right investment vehicles. It likewise provided me with the peace of mind of knowing there is a much safer substitute than having my broker tell me to "hold on" and wait for the market to come back.

My thanks to Mr. Meillard for his perceptive ins and outs of Swiss investing. The reasonable price of this book is the best investment I ever made!

9 of 11 humans found the following review helpful.
A Book That Makes Swiss Annuities Easy To Understand
By TravelingMan
Finally, a book that makes Swiss annuities easy to understand.

I have had an interest in Swiss annuities for a good deal of time. Unfortunately, until Mr. Meillard's book, all I could find were books that seemed to be written by lawyers for other lawyers. This book is exclusively different.

The Consumer's Guide is written for persons like me. I wanted to know how Swiss annuities work, what kind there are and how to learn more. This book does just that.

The Swiss insurers trade the same kinds of annuities (immediate and deferred) that we have in the U.S. The huge divergence is that the account accumulation and annuity payouts are in Swiss francs. As the book shows (and most wise investors know) the Swiss franc has a better record as a hedge versus inflation than just in regards to anything else.

What astonished me the most were the private placement annuities. This is an annuity where you determine what the investments inside the policy are. The insurer provides the shell and you may tuck in beauteous much whatsoever pluses you want. Once inside all future gains are tax deferred until you make withdrawals. In addition, all Swiss annuities are almost creditor proof. Unless you are a criminal, your creditors (even in bankruptcy) can't get their hands on it. As a professional I found this creditor shelter feature very attractive.

So, I can't commend this book strongly sufficient for any individual who wants to learn regarding Swiss annuities.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
A True Consumers' Guide
By Katherine Schultz
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Like most humans approaching retirement age, I am concerned in regards to having a life income which is both sufficient today and twenty years from now.

From my own travels and investing experience I have seen that the currency one's investments are denominated in is important. Specifically, I have watched over the years the Swiss franc rise relentlessly relative to the dollar. At the same time, I have watched the dollar's purchasing power be eroded by inflation. In fact, the dollar's sad story is told on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics inflation calculator. [...]

The Swiss franc's strength had peaked my interest in owning a heap of as portion of my retirement portfolio. Yet, I didn't know rather what to do.

Until a friend commended The Consumer's Guide, I had never thought regarding Swiss annuities. I don't know why, I just hadn't.

What I learned from The Consumer's Guide is that Swiss annuities are finelooking much just like American annuities. The big divergence is that your account is in Swiss francs and not dollars. Over the past decades, an income in Swiss francs, when converted to dollars, has kept pace with inflation. Swiss annuities are likewise perfectly legal for Americans to own.

Meillard points out that Swiss annuities are immune from the attacks of creditors. While I don't have any lawyers chasing after me, in today's world you never know. We all seem to be one frivolous lawsuit away from oblivion.

What Mr. Meillard has to say makes a lot of sense to me.

If you are fascinated in learning regarding Swiss annuities, I think this is a great book. As the name implies, it is a "Consumer's Guide" and not an academic book or one written for tax attorneys. It actually was written for somebody like me: sophisticated sufficient to manage my own investments, not so sophisticated as to have sold out before the crash and concerned regarding a secure inflation protected retirement.

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