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Dear Reader, Never before in US History have Americans been so grateful for the British Gov't... Thanks to a falling US Dollar, a bankrupt Social Security system... and a lackluster stock market... Thousands of concerned Americans have been looking outside the US for retirement security. And the situation they've uncovered in Britain could be the answer. Take 65-year old Jim Nelson, for example. In the past 3 years, Nelson's collected more income than most Americans collect in a lifetime from Social Security. For every $100 Nelson invested, he's received 209 times his money in return. How is this possible? You see, Nelson is among the thousands of smart Americans who have been collecting surprisingly large sums of income through a unique British Gov't initiative my colleagues and I call "Commonwealth Shares."
In October 1986, the British Government officially granted Americans access. And now you -- as an American -- can take advantage of this unique British initiative too, without ever leaving home... no matter how old you are, where you live, and even if you're already collecting from Social Security, 401ks, or any kind of US pensions... You don't have to fly or even place a call to anywhere in Britain either. Most Americans will probably never hear about this opportunity in the States... even though it's incredibly lucrative and super-easy to take advantage of. Eric Hebron – a Mid-Western asset manager – explains why:
In other words, US financial "experts" will only tell you about opportunities they can profit from. But why would the British government help Americans pay for retirement... And how can you possibly get in on this deal? I've spent the past three months looking into the situation firsthand... I've even sent several researchers to London to collect the necessary documents. Let me share with you what I've found... "It was so easy... " So, what does an obscure, 1979 British Gov't initiative have to do with you and your retirement? Erin Herrara – a graphic designer from Chicago – asked herself the same question, when friends tipped her off to a special deal made available on COMMONWEALTH SHARES. Never having invested even in regular stocks... the 32-year old Herrara was naturally a bit skeptical. However, the logic behind COMMONWEALTH SHARES "proved irresistible," as Herrara told the Chicago Tribune, so she invested $200...
So far, she's collected 20 checks since enrolling in "Commonwealth Shares", boosting her tiny $200 initial stake to an average of $5,099.24. Can you think of any other investment in the United States realistically capable of providing that sort of return, with such regularity? So, what exactly are "Commonwealth Shares"... and how can you possibly get in on this deal? Let me explain... "Quick and Large Profits... " The Commonwealth Shares program got underway in 1979... as a radical new solution to Britain's worst economic crisis to date... Janitors, paramedics, and thousands of the country's key personnel went on strike. People mobbed the streets of London, staging violent riots. As the country began to slip into depression, Margaret Thatcher – Britain's newly elected Prime Minister – created Commonwealth Shares to save the retirement of millions of everyday British citizens... In short, for the first time in 33 years, the British Government officially allowed the public to own equity stakes in the country's biggest and most valuable businesses. You see, ever since the end of World War II, the British Government owned every single share of the country's largest industries. I'm talking about steel, oil, gas, electricity, water, agriculture... . In other words, businesses vital to the British national economy... to any nation's economy, for that matter. 46 major British businesses in total. Each one a Government-owned monopoly. The British Government staffed these companies with government employees. And they made it illegal for any competitors to enter the market. This probably sounds a bit strange, I know... Here in the US, our Gov't allows the private sector to own and run American businesses. Not so in 1970s Great Britain... For example, Britain didn't have several Big Telecomm companies like Verizon, AT&T, & Sprint... Instead, they had just ONE Big Telecomm company – British Telecomm – which monopolized the Telecommunications industry for ALL of Great Britain. The government owned every single share of this monopoly. Under the Commonwealth Shares program, the Government finally allowed private citizens to own some of these shares too. Can you imagine what it would be like here in the States, if you and I couldn't own stock in a single US company? What if shares of Microsoft, Exxon, Chevron, and thousands of other profitable US companies were essentially off-limits to you – for more than 30 years?! So what do you think happened when the British Government first began issuing Commonwealth Shares? The British public ate it up! Everyone from wealthy London aristocrats... to folks like Lawrence Butts staked their claim... Butts – a Manchester janitor – registered for Commonwealth Shares in 1984. If you'd invested just $300 when Butts did, your stake would have climbed an incredible 33,613% in value... and would be worth $100,830 today. So... how can Commonwealth Shares cost so little... while also generating such extraordinarily large returns? I'll show you why in just a few moments. By 1986, roughly 9 million Brits had enrolled in the Commonwealth Shares initiative... and the British economy had gone from one of the worst in the world, to one of the fastest growing... In fact, the program generated so much money both for the Government and for private citizens... that the British Government ended up selling off pretty much every State monopoly. You could have bought Commonwealth Shares in pretty much any of the 46 British Government Monopolies... and watched your investment continuously rise in value...
How have these Commonwealth companies generated such large and consistent returns for shareholders? And, if you were to tap into this program today... what kind of returns could you expect to make? Let me get into the details... 1986 British Law Grants You Full Access... At first, the Government allowed only British citizens to participate in this unique program. But on October 27, 1986, the Thatcher administration passed legislation officially granting Americans access to Commonwealth Shares... Incredible, isn't it? For 21 years, we've been able to take advantage of arguably the world's greatest source of income... yet no one's known about it.
The government opens up its monopoly business to the public. You buy shares... and then you just sit back as you watch waves of money flood your bank account. What does the Government get out of it? Let me show you – because here's the beauty and irrefutable logic behind Commonwealth Shares... How the British Government How do Commonwealth Shares pay you so much more money than regular stocks... or than other conventional US investments for that matter? Because the Government has every reason to make sure Commonwealth Shares rise in value. Why? Because the more Commonwealth Shares the Government can sell to the public, the more money they can collect. In other words, it's in the Government's best interest to make sure as many people enroll in this program as there are Shares available...It's easy money both for new shareholders... and for the government. A genuine win-win scenario. How does the Government entice investors to buy Commonwealth Shares?
Oftentimes, the Government will "sweeten the deal"... to make sure Commonwealth Shares seem like the closest thing to a slam-dunk investment. For instance, sometimes the Government will promise government revenue to new Commonwealth Shares companies. This happened recently with a British Government-owned Defense company called QinetiQ (pronounced "kinetic").To make sure folks registered for Commonwealth Shares, the Gov't granted QinetiQ a 25-year contract worth $5.6 billion. Who wouldn't think twice about buying shares? Another way the Government might "sweeten the deal" is by issuing what are known as "special dividends" (these are unusually large – and unexpected – cash payouts made to shareholders). This happened in 1996 when National Power – a British Government-owned electricity company – paid out a whopping 33% special dividend. Just imagine, most US companies pay 2-4% in dividends over the course of one year. National Power paid 33% in one day. Yet another way the Gov't might sweeten the deal is by offering to pay you if your investment doesn't rise in value by a certain amount. Let me show you a quick example of what I mean by this... To encourage as many folks to buy shares as possible... the Government actually promised that you would earn a 30% return within the first 9 months. You read that correctly: If your Commonwealth Shares didn't rise by 30% or more on their own... then the Gov't would make up the difference. If you've never heard of something like that happening in the States... that's because it's never happened before. What better way to ease the minds of everyday investors, than to make an official promise – backed by the full faith and credit of the National Government – that their money will grow? I think you get the point... Governments rig these deals ALL THE TIME. But, you won't hear about any of these deals happening ANYWHERE in the United States.But by now you're probably naturally wondering:
Let me show you what's up for grabs right now... and how you can claim your stake... "... a Program Far Bigger than Anyone Today, you can potentially collect more money from Commonwealth Shares than folks did in 1980s Great Britain... How so? Because after Commonwealth Shares proved to be a success in Great Britain, the program quickly spread to former British colonies such as Canada, New Zealand, Cyprus, Malta, Singapore, Australia... These countries, along with 46 others (including Great Britain), make up what's known as the British Commonwealth. In 1986, Canada was one of the first to follow Britain's lead... with the Government issuing dividend-rich "Commonwealth Shares" in 30+ Gov't Monopolies, including:
New Zealand, Malaysia, and whole slew of other Commonwealth followed suit...
In December 1993, for example, India's Commonwealth Shares program kicked off. And it's still going strong today. Take a quick look at the box to your right, where I've highlighted a few example from the past 5 years... Today, there are literally hundreds of different British Commonwealth shares in the pipeline... and many more that have been recently issued... So what are the Commonwealth Share opportunities available today? The money available is incredible. Let me show you. And remember, you never have to leave home... Why We've Visited More than With 53 Commonwealth countries and literally hundreds of different Commonwealth Shares to choose from... How do you know which are the absolute best to buy right now? Well, over the past 6 months, my colleagues and I came up with a short list of Commonwealth Nations worth looking at:
After investigating each of these countries firsthand... one country emerged as the consensus favorite as a place to buy Commonwealth Shares. What makes this place the best? Well, its economy's growing even faster than China's... the World Bank ranks this place as the #1 country in the world to do business, even safer and more credible than Britain or Switzerland... and it's a longtime ally of America... U.S. businesses love this country's super-low corporate taxation rate, which takes about 50% less than what the US Gov't takes each year. So it's no wonder 1,300 US businesses have operations here, from big names like Exxon to small caps like Codex, a California-based biotech firm. These big US businesses have much more money on the line than either you or I... or any one person could ever have at stake... Bottom line, no place in the world right now offers a better environment for investors... After spending a week in this tiny island nation, I flew back to the states with two phenomenal ways to own Commonwealth Shares. Let me tell you a bit about each:
I've only given you a snapshot of each Commonwealth businesses we're recommending. But as you can probably see, each of the three we've highlighted offers you:
I recommend buying an equal number of Commonwealth Shares in each of these 3 businesses – sooner, rather than later. If you'd invested $1,000 in each of these 3 companies in 2003-2004... your initial stake would be worth $15,438.52 today. Can you think of any other reliable way to turn $3,000 into more than $15,000 in less than four years? My analysis suggests these Commonwealth Shares could generate 3-5 times that amount over the next three to four years. But don't just take my word for it... Leading Finance Professors Agree... A collaborative study of Commonwealth Shares, conducted by the University of Oklahoma, Wake Forest University, The University of Miami and the University of Georgia compared them to regular stocks over 1-year, 3-year, and 5-year periods. They took the average return from 158 Commonwealth Shares businesses over those periods, and put those numbers up against average returns for the S&P 500 index, and against the FT World Index (Global stock markets). Here's what the study found:
According to the data above, Commonwealth Shares clearly generate higher returns than regular stocks – at home in the States and also abroad. Other financial academic studies show similar results:
A study conducted by the World Bank reached the same conclusion:
Simply put, Commonwealth Shares return much more money to shareholders – both in the short term and the long term. And they also steadily increase the amount of money they pay you in dividends too. If you'd like more information on my 3 favorite COMMONWEALTH SHARES... then I encourage you to read my full white paper briefing, which we recently published. You can receive it at no charge. Here's how... How to Pick Up the World's My name is Graham Summers. I've spent the past 11 months tracking down the details of the COMMONWEALTH SHARES program, as part of my research for my monthly retirement advisory called International Strategist. I created this research service to give Americans another way to think about retirement. I believe that if you want to retire comfortably in the US, you've got to start looking beyond U.S. borders with your investments. Why do I say that? Well... it's simple, once you look at the cold hard facts... You'd probably agree U.S. stocks, by and large, have done quite well over the past 5 years. In fact, we've just had one of the three longest bull markets in U.S. history. The stock market as a whole is up 74% during that period. Not bad. But did you know that if you had simply looked overseas with just a tiny percentage of your portfolio, you could have made safe gains of 5- 10-times as much. In 1998, for instance, Greece's stock market rose 93.5% in just 12 months. You can find similar examples, going as far back as 1980. Every single year, a stock market outside the US crushes the world-wide average. Not once in 27 years does the US stock market emerge as the global champion. Not once in 20+ years. And this past year? How did US stocks stack up against the rest of the world? Well, take a look at the world's top three stocks for 2006-2007:
Where do US stocks fall on this list? Nowhere. Not in the top ten. Not even in the top fifty. The top 3 best performing US stocks (with a market capitalization greater than $1 billion) don't come anywhere close. Take a look:
It's not just US stocks either... US mutual funds are losing big-time to international funds. Take a look at the top 5 performing mutual funds from this past year: #1) Dreyfus Premier Greater China A (DPCAX) up 85.58% Every single one of the mutual funds listed above focuses on international investments. I'm not trying to scare you with this data. Not at all. My point is this:
That's why we launched International Strategist. And it's why I spend most of my time OUTSIDE the U.S... examining firsthand the different ways people in other countries are planning for retirement... In just the past year, I've spent considerable fact-finding time in Zurich, Switzerland... Dubai, Paris, Singapore, and, of course, the United Kingdom, where COMMONWEALTH SHARES originated... If you are as interested in this idea as I am, I encourage you to have a look at our special investment report called: Commonwealth Shares – An Upperclass Retirement, Courtesy of the British Government. This recently published report contains all of the essential details on Commonwealth Shares – including the 3 very best Commonwealth investments in the world right now – as well as simple instructions on how to get started. I'd like to send you a copy of this Research Report, our compliments. In return, I ask only that you try a subscription to International Strategist. Let me tell you about something else you'll receive – on us – if you are interested in trying my investment research... Have You Heard of CHIMERICA? I want to tell you about a stock phenomenon going on in China right now that could make you rich... My colleagues and I call it CHIMERICA. Let me explain why... You see, today, there are about 20 million officially registered businesses in China... And the majority of these companies are growing so fast that they want to go public... and have their shares listed on China's stock exchanges. But here's the thing... There's a 3-year waiting period just to get listed on the Chinese stock exchange. So China's most promising young start-up companies are now turning to the United States. In other words, there's actually a stock market for Chinese penny stocks – right here in the USA.
Hard to believe, I know... especially since it's rarely publicized here in America. But this amazing situation can help you make a fortune in the next 18 months. Because their shares are listed right here in the States, the SEC reviews these companies' applications – and approves or denies them. To stay in the U.S., they MUST follow U.S. accounting standards – they must play by the same rules as any other America public company like Johnson and Johnson and Exxon. That way, you know you're investing in a credible and legitimate business.In short, you can now buy shares of great Chinese companies right here in the United States – oftentimes for pennies a share. These aren't second-tier Chinese businesses either... Take China Security & Surveillance Technology (CSCT), which provides security and surveillance equipment for the Chinese Government. Rather than wait years to go public on China's stock exchange, this small company listed in America first... And we're glad they did... When the Chinese government passed a law mandating this company's surveillance at every nightclub, every Internet cafe and every bar in China... shares began to skyrocket in value. They trade today for as high as $25 per share. But if you'd gotten in early, in 2005, you could have picked up 100 shares for just $210 – or $2.10 for every share of China Security and Surveillance Technology stock. That's a rise of 1,114% in little over two years. What happened? Essentially, these U.S.-listed companies are China's high-growth superstars of tomorrow. Fully-backed and oftentimes funded by the cash-rich Chinese Gov't, shares of these companies are available on U.S. exchanges today... Here are just a few examples of the money being made...
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