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TInvestment Advice for Expatriates

Contact: info@africanoffshore.co.uk

 
Agents for Friends Provident International, Hansard International, Royal London 360 & Old Mutual

 
 

 
 
Services

African Offshore is an offshore brokerage that specialises in advising expatriates on their personal financial affairs. Established in 1995, we are based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia but our Consultants regularly visit the other major East African countries of Kenya, Tanzania & Uganda. Recently we have expanded our operations into Ghana in West Africa.

The United Nations Conference Centre in Addis Ababa

Typically, we arrange education policies for clients who want to plan for their children's future and personal pensions for clients who need to make arrangements for their eventual retirement. Another very important part of our business is setting up suitable investment vehicles for clients aiming to get a better return on their money than can be obtained in any bank.

Advice on risk is a critical. Clients vary greatly from those taking very risky investment strategies aimed at achieving the maximum possible returns right through to highly conservative totally risk averse investors who are looking to achieve returns only slightly higher than bank deposits. Our job is to use our experience and expertise to give our clients the blend of risk they require in their invesment policies.



 

How we Operate

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Finding new clients: As a long established brokerage with a large client base, most of our new clients come from referrals from existing clients. The rest come from internet and ad hoc enquiries.

Personal assessments: We encourage clients to plan for the future. Nothing in life is certain. You tell us your hopes and objectives - we'll advise you on how best to achieve them.

No magic: There is nothing particularly difficult about what we do, but it has been our experience that clients are so busy doing their very demanding jobs that they simply don't have the time to do it themselves.

Revenues: As we don't charge clients for our services, we depend on commissions paid by the British offshore companies that we represent for our income. This means that we have a vested interest in giving our clients the best possible advice so they choose to do business through us rather than through one of our competitors.

Total Security: We never handle client's money. As brokers, no payments are ever made to us. All investment funds go straight from the client's bank to the chosen British investment company.

Agencies: African Offshore has agencies with Friends Provident International, Hansard International, Royal London 360 & Old Mutual.

Follow up: We are always available to provide advice and to inform our clients of the value of their offshore invstments. In addition, we offer an optional active fund management service if required - at a nominal cost of 0.5% per annum.