Spreading Your Life Around, Country By Country, Flag By Flag

Dec. 15, 2011, Panama City, Panama: The key to surviving and prospering in the current global climate is to internationalize your life, using the Five Flags strategy to diversify globally.

Christmas Photo Fun Continues!

Post your favorite Christmas photo...and win a free Country Retirement Report instantly.

Every entry gets a prize...and best photo wins a Grand Prize of free admission to a future Live and Invest Overseas conference!

Go here now to post your favorite snapshot!

Dear Live and Invest Overseas Reader,

To diversify your life internationally, as I am most strongly recommending you make a plan to do, you need to take a look at what has traditionally been called the Five Flags approach.

Coining fanciful terminology is a marketing technique, but it also helps to create a shorthand for referring to a concept that can be hard to speak of otherwise. In this case, the "five flags" are residency, citizenship, banking, assets, and business. Some have recently added a sixth flag--cyberspace.

A Second Residency—All Important And Easy In This Top Retirement Haven

Jan. 17, 2012, Medellin, Colombia: Colombia, one of the world’s top retirement havens, offers a dozen options for establishing foreign residency.

Dear Live and Invest Overseas Reader,

Having a legal residency outside the United States can be like having a strongbox full of cash buried in the back yard. It's not hard to put in place, and the day may come when you're awfully glad you've got it.

Medellin, Colombia, is one of our top recommended lifestyle choices for 2012. As we've been reporting for the past 18 months, this pretty mountain city is emerging as one of the best retirement options worldwide. In past reports, however, we've cautioned that establishing yourself here, specifically, for example, establishing legal foreign residency, may not be as straightforward as it can be in, say, Panama, Belize, or Uruguay.

Contacts in the country, including our attorney, have disagreed, telling us we've got this all wrong.

How To Buy Foreign Real Estate With Your IRA

Dec. 17, 2010, Panama City, Panama: It is possible to invest in foreign real estate using IRA or 401k retirement funds. First, you must establish what’s called a “self-directed IRA.”

More Around The World Christmas Trivia On Facebook Means More Chances To Win!

Join the fun! Every entry wins a prize. Grand Prize is a FREE Conference Attendance in 2011!

Dear Live and Invest Overseas Reader,

Most people understand that buying real estate overseas is a smart part of any asset-protection and diversification plan right now. Unfortunately, though, many people have the majority of their retirement funds and net worth tied up in some kind of retirement account, a 401k or an IRA, for example. And most custodians of these accounts don't allow for "non-traditional" types of investments like foreign real estate.

The Lights Of Medellin

Dec. 14, 2011, Medellin, Colombia: Medellin, Colombia’s annual Christmas Festival of Lights is something to see.

Christmas Photo Contest Continues!

Share your Christmas photos on Facebook and enter to win free admission to a future Live and Invest Overseas conference! Other daily prizes are available, so share your photos today.

Go here now to join in on the fun and win prizes

Dear Live and Invest Overseas Reader,

Here in Medellin, Christmas seems to be all about the lights. They're draped everywhere--on palm trees, pine trees, lampposts, doorways, highway signs, shop entrances, park benches...

Driving back into the city last night after our day in the mountains in El Retiro, it was like entering fairy land. Parque Poblado is ablaze with strings of white lights, and the river is lined with elaborate recreations of Christmas scenes (reindeer, elves, gingerbread houses) created from lights of every color.