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Asain investors are moving into secondary markets

By Joel Ross | Updated on April 13, 2015

I represent a group of family offices in Japan and China which are led by older entrepreneurs who are now cashing in.  Despite all of the bad economic problems in Japan over the past twenty years, there are several businessmen who were very successful at various different industries, Several are now billionaires or close to that. Taxes are relatively high in Japan with a 70% estate tax and high cap gains taxes. As a result they are interested to move cash out of Japan and into a more long term stable country such as the US.  They also have gone to Singapore, Kuala Lampur and Australia. These are not your typical Japanese investors in several cases.  These are guy who make decisions and since it is their personal money they do not have to do the usual Japanese routine of consensus. Their goals are the full range of five year flips to never sell.

For the Chinese there is a flood of cash coming to the US from China these days and it is growing.  Hundreds of everyday businessmen have been arrested for being part of the standard culture of corruption that was everyday way of doing business there. Now the world has changed and many of these people have to get their cash out before the government moves on them and takes it away. They may also need to get themselves out and almost all want to get the children to the US to go to college. EB5 does not do the job for many of these wealthy investors.  It is too slow and does not move enough of their cash. The Chinese are quick to move and quicker to flip as they have much more the trader mentality. As we have all seen there are billions moving out of China to the US.

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