When European Union (EU) decided to expand eastward into Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic, Brussels realized that many of industries in these countries could not compete with their counterparts in Western Europe. The reason? Their factories needed renovation and major modernization in order to compete.

The EU acquired these antiquated factories and offered them for sale for one Euro to any multinational corporation willing to invest millions of dollars needed for modernization. After multinational corporation modernized plant, EU loaned corporation 92% of renovation costs of that modern plant, at a very low interest rate.

So multinational corporation acquired (with very low interest debt) a modern local plant with an already established local marketing network for 8% of costs of building a new plant in country. Their modernized plant also had tariff-free access to EU! I'm unaware of any of these investments that weren't fully recovered within five years.

Multinational corporations have regular access to funding opportunities unavailable to domestic companies. This "money for jobs" Government investment policy reduces multinational corporation's overhead, diminishes business risk and increases profits.

Tariffs Can Be Circumvented

Tariffs are taxes that inhibit growth of world trade. While trend is toward free global trade, tariffs still exist. However, there is always a way around tariffs for multinational corporations. For instance, if you want instant free trade access to both EU and USA, manufacture in Israel. If you have a low-tech product and want free trade access to EU, make it in Senegal, since they have a free trade agreement with France. The list of bypasses around tariffs is long and grows as NAFTA and EU expand.

Creating Hundred Million Dollar Multinational Corporation

Creating a regional multinational corporation requires an understanding of economic benefits of being a multinational corporation. They aren't hard.

It requires an understanding of tax and funding potential within your region of world. This is easy information to acquire.

Simply put, it's critical business information to ensure getting most for your production dollar.

The point isn't simply to raise some money by going public in States and using US Dollars and your shares to buy cash-producing assets. The point is being able to leverage your assets with incentives offered by local governments for purpose of maximizing your company's profits.

Then, you reinvest your increased profits by acquiring more cash producing assets. Your search for business success always includes new ways to use local government incentives, loans and grants to maximize your profits.

There are major tax and investment advantages to being a multinational corporation. Once you realize this fact, Beowulf Investments can help you develop a plan to take advantage of Government Mantra to create jobs. After 20 years in this business, we've learned unique ways to stretch your production dollar and expand your business more rapidly by doing so.

The specific tactics to employ these benefits to your multinational corporation should, of course, be reviewed by local Chartered Accountants and Tax Attorneys. You must be certain that local Government you choose applies job incentives in manner they claim.

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Hedge Funds use OPM to speculate in derivatives, which are high-risk financial instruments. The recent failure of a growing number of Hedge Funds underscores high-risk nature of their speculations. Insurance companies use actuaries to ensure a mathematical bias in favor of company. Pension funds often take too many risks or are badly structured. The U.S. Social Security Program is a textbook example of a mathematically impossible retirement plan.

Beowulf Investments Approach to OPM

Our working rule that is company(s) in which we invest must be publicly traded in United States. The reason is that this gives Beowulf Investments access to OPM. We can sell our shares to public.

We are significantly different than other private placement merchant banks. We will only sell sufficient shares to recover our risk capital. We are willing to defer profits for years, since we can't lose our money and see sale of public company in a M&A as best way to maximize our profits. Our risk is zero. Our reward is about sixty-fold our initial investment. It's a winning bet. The Risk Reward Ratio is 0/66.

The VCP Program goes further. It advises investors supplying OPM to follow our example. Sell some of their shares to recover their risk capital and keep balance until public company is sold, which will maximize their profit. The GVIC (Global Village Investment Club) & ISI (International Stock Investors Newsletter) investment risk is zero after sixty days. Their potential profit at time of M&A acquisition is about twenty-two fold. The Risk Reward Ratio is 0/22. As for last buyers of a VCP stock, our discount benefits program should save them cost of their 100-share investment every year. After first year, their Risk Reward Ratio should be 0/2.

To my way of thinking, ONLY wise gamble is a Risk/Reward ratio where reward is greater than risk, greater better. Too many entrepreneurs and business owners think that folks with OPM should accept a negative Risk/Reward ratio. In fact, too many people with money failed to take statistics and probability courses in college.

Consistent Winners

The OPM winners are people who always want number on right of Risk/Reward ratio to be far larger than number on left of Risk/Reward ratio. If you are going to design an investment to attract OPM, you should ensure that Reward is a multiple of risk. There's still no guarantee that folks with OPM will win. However, odds will be greatly in their favor.

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