We are sometimes still faced with the prejudice, that Liechtenstein can be problematic for foreign institutional investors. The following information try to give an overview of Liechtenstein as a domicile for funds and show its advantages and disadvantages.
The selection of the location for their investment product plays for initiators an important role. Here is naturally to consider legal, fiscal and actual predispositions of the location, however also the target group of investors for the product. Especially the institutional investors have today detailed demands and a strong value codex. Countries, which are connected with tax evasion or tax fraud , are for institutional investors rightly an absolute NO-GO.
Liechtenstein is since the year 1995 a member of the European Economic Area (EEA) . Its funds and their providors have therefore identical rights and obligations as the ones in the EU member countries and also the equal participation at the European inner market through the passporting, so that the shareholders are entitled to the same legal protection as by the products from the EU.
The domicile Liechtenstein is legally, fiscally and actually interesting for initiators and investors of investment products.
