The Mobility Standard #4 - Investment Migration Funds: Better Than Real Estate?

In this fourth installment of the Mobility Standard, we spoke to Murat Coskun of Get Golden Visa, a man who's been closely involved with the Portugal Golden Visa's fund investment option since the very beginning. We asked him a range of questions about RCBI fund options, including:Which investment migration programs out there, beyond Portugal, have a fund option, either explicitly in their regulations or as a hypothetical possibility under their legal frameworks?Why don’t any of the Caribbean CIPs have such fund investment options?Now that Portugal has decided to raise the minimum investment for the fund category from 350,000 to half a million euros starting next year, will the funds struggle to attract investors?In the last several years, only a double-digit number of golden visa investors have picked the fund option, but there are already more than 20 funds available. With such an unfavorable ratio, how can fund managers expect to raise enough capital?Portugal has proven that there’s an appetite for investment fund options among investor migrants. Which other programs are likely to take advantage of this market next?What are the common pitfalls of fund investment? Which factors should you take into consideration when evaluating a fund? What are the tax advantages that fund investment has over real estate?