New Zealand As An Offshore Jurisdiction for Fund Management

An appropriately registered New Zealand Foreign Trust can provide a tax free operation in New Zealand on income earned offshore. Management can still be sourced and contracted from offshore.

Fund Management can include any funds sourced from offshore resident investors, in a situation where these funds are invested internationally and profits are sourced offshore. Some examples, (of many possible situations) is an employee benefit scheme (EBS), or a superannuation scheme with various members, or an investment plan with various investors. The investments would be accommodated by a New Zealand Foreign Trust, which assuming it did not intend to market to New Zealand residents, would not have to issue a New Zealand Prospectus or Investment Statement and therefore would not be subject to the New Zealand domestic Securities Legislation.