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Oracle Capital Group Review
September 2015

Dear Reader

The newsletter will provide you with new developments and achievements within the company, as well as important information regarding new rules for UK visas, UK property costs, family businesses and HNWIs, and much more.

  1. New Rules for UK Investor and Entrepreneur Visas
  2. UK House Prices Just Keep On Rising
  3. Don’t Lose the Family Fortune: Help Is At Hand!
  4. UK’s Millionaire Population Shoots Up in 5 Years
  5. Partnerships Between Family Businesses and HNWIs: Tricky, But Not impossible
  6. China’s Super Rich: Growing in Numbers and Confidence
  7. The Room to Swing a Claret
LATEST NEWS

New Rules for UK Investor and Entrepreneur Visas

By Yuliya Andresyuk, Head of Legal Services at Oracle Capital Group

An important change is being introduced in the application process for UK Tier 1 Investor and Entrepreneur Visas. Anyone applying for UK Investor or Entrepreneur Visas from 1 September 2015 will have to provide an overseas criminal record certificate for each country where they have resided continuously for 12 months in the ten years prior to the application.

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UK House Prices Just Keep On Rising

By Venus Belova, Sales Manager at Ashton Rose (part of Oracle Capital Group)

Two of Britain’s leading mortgage lenders, the Halifax and the Nationwide Building Society, have recently released figures which show that the price of property in the UK has risen to the point where the average house price is around £200,000.

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Don’t Lose the Family Fortune: Help Is At Hand

By Rosie Chalmers, Head of Finance at Oracle Capital Group

A staggering number of wealthy families – as many as 70% – find that the wealth that is built up by one generation does not last beyond the next generation. And if this is taken to the next stage, to the third generation, the number of families not preserving the fortune which their ancestor has made rises to 90%.

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UK’s Millionaire Population Shoots Up in 5 Years

By Nataliya Makhonina-Byrdan, Head of Business Development at Oracle Capital Group

A clear sign of the way in which the UK economy has recovered since the economic crisis which hit in 2008 is that the number of millionaires based in the United Kingdom has increased dramatically since 2010. According to the Barclays UK Prosperity Map, there are now over 715,000 millionaires in the country, an increase of 41% from 508,000 over the past five years.

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Partnerships Between Family Businesses and HNWIs:
Tricky, But Not Impossible

By Konstantin Kuras, Business Development Manager at Oracle Capital Group

High Net Worth Individuals (HNWIs) have tended to avoid investing in family businesses. This is a pity, as many family businesses represent sound and profitable investment opportunities. There are a number of obstacles in the way of such investment; but with reliable contacts, careful planning and sound advice these can be overcome.

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China’s Super Rich: Growing in Numbers and Confidence

By Cecilia Zheng, Business Development Executive at Oracle Capital Group

China now has over one million high net worth individuals (HNWIs); new billionaires are being created in China every week; and these people tend to be very confident when it comes to investing. These are the findings of a number of surveys which have been carried out in Asia in recent weeks.

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The Room to Swing a Claret

Stephen Williams, Founder and CEO of AWC Fine Wine, writes about the pleasures of a dedicated wine room at home.

Wine has become more accessible and is now enjoyed by much wider social groups and age ranges than ever. Since I founded AWC twenty five years ago I’ve noticed that today more young people are now enjoying to learn about wine, winemakers and critics are able to communicate with their fans and followers directly, and food and wine pairings are becoming commonplace. Today’s wine consumers are also more intellectually and pleasurably engaged with fine wine than ever before.

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About Oracle Capital Group

Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Luxembourg, Oracle Capital Group provides comprehensive, tailored and confidential services for high-net-worth individuals and their families, including investment advisory (through the offices in Switzerland and the Bahamas), wealth structuring and asset protection, asset financing and insurance, legal case management, property development, and concierge services. Oracle Capital Group has 7 offices (London, Luxembourg, Geneva, Nassau, Moscow, Almaty and Limassol) and employs over 100 staff worldwide.
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