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Helmores Wealth Limited is a New Zealand business specialising in international wealth structuring and fiduciary services.

The business provides specialist administration services to protect and enhance the value of assets held for high net worth individuals and their families who are neither domiciled nor resident in New Zealand. Helmores Wealth provides tax neutral legal architecture and administration and is not an investment manager nor adviser. Appropriate delegations are made to third party investment managers.

Helmores Wealth has an extensive international network of individual clients, intermediaries, referrers and professional partners.

New Zealand trusts and limited partnerships can be effectively used as tax, investment, asset protection and succession planning vehicles for families and individuals with assets located outside of New Zealand. They can also be used by institutions as vehicles to hold investments and/or carry out transactional activity.

New Zealand trusts and limited partnerships can be exempt from tax in New Zealand. Provided the settlor or limited partner is not resident in New Zealand and there is no New Zealand sourced income then the trust or limited partnership will not be subject to tax in New Zealand on its worldwide income.

In nearly every respect New Zealand trusts and limited partnerships can achieve the same results as comparable vehicles in "offshore" financial centres. However, New Zealand is an OECD and FATF member jurisdiction which is not subject to any "blacklists" and enjoys political, economic and social stability.

New Zealand legislation and regulations also allow settlors, beneficiaries and limited partners to enjoy a level of confidentiality and retain a measure of control.

New Zealand trusts and limited partnerships can be accessed directly through a qualified professional service provider such as Helmores Wealth.

It is also increasingly desirable for trust companies operating in the traditional "offshore" finance centres to diversify their jurisdictional footprint by establishing a wholly owned subsidiary trust company in New Zealand which is managed by a firm such as Helmores Wealth.

From April 2011 Helmores Wealth will be able to offer a new legal entity to be known as a "Profit and Loss Attributing Company". This is a new fiscally transparent company which allows profits and losses to be passed through the company to shareholders. It is expected to be an expedient and respectable alternative to the traditional "offshore company" or "international business company".

Helmores Wealth also provides fund administration services including net asset value calculations and reporting. New Zealand's unique selling point for the provision of these services is that our business day opens at the same time that Wall Street and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange close. This means our administrators can commence pricing and reporting before the markets reopen for trading.

More detailed information about New Zealand trusts, limited partnerships and managed trust companies is available on request.

Visit our website www.helmoreswealth.com

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