We are currently highlighting two innovative Regional Centers:
As the only State-wide Regional Center in Florida, FOIC’s “Mutual Fund” approach to investment means portfolio diversification through investing in Targeted Employment Area’s statewide in 14 industries. Here’s how they describe their model:
Florida Overseas is the only Regional Center that offers a mutual fund approach which allows investors to own a Portfolio of diverse companies in various industries across the state of Florida.
Investments are managed by a team of experienced successful asset managers who have successfully raised and invested over $1.2 billion.
FLORIDA OVERSEAS has access to other U.S. Government funded financing programs which our team has expertise with. These programs will be used to enhance rates of returns for investors and minimize risk
As the 4th largest state in the U.S.A. Florida has low corporate taxes and only one of seven states with No personal income tax!
International trade flow in Florida has nearly doubled in the last decade, exceeding $130 billion in 2008. Total foreign direct investment in Florida amounts to $39.3 billion, making Florida one of the top states for foreign direct investment and related employment.
Florida continues to shine as one of the nation’s best states for business, ranking No. 1 in the nation for Workforce, among the Top 10 in Technology & Innovation and Access to Capital, and moving up to rank 3rd overall in this year’s Chief Executive survey of the best places for jobs and business growth. (Chief Executive, March 2009)
Florida tops list of U.S. Emerging Biotechnology Cluster hotspots, one of the world’s most promising emerging biotech clusters. (Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, May 2009)
Successfully doing business in Seattle and the surrounding regions of the state of Washington, American Life, Inc.’s model concentrates on the selection and development/redevelopment of prime commercial real estate. Here’s what they have to say about their program:
American Life Inc. offers investors a secure investment in prime real estate. The investment offers superior monthly income and a significant capital gain opportunity. The proven strategy developed over the past decade is to:
While the Seattle, Tacoma and Everett Regional Centers were selected to develop areas of high unemployment, the region as a whole is well endowed with resources, growing, and prosperous. Simply put, the Pacific Northwest is one of the better investment opportunities in the world.
With over 20 million people and over US $700 billion in gross regional product, the US Pacific Northwest (Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington) and Western Canada (Alberta, British Columbia and Yukon) is one of fastest growing regions of North America. International trade, resource extraction, technology, and agriculture underpin the economy. It is one of one of North America’s most important gateways to East Asia, the host of the 2010 Winter Olympics and the site of several major infrastructure projects and internationally known businesses. The Seattle metropolitan area, together with Everett to the north and Tacoma to the south, form the commercial hub of this prosperous region.
In economic terms the Pacific Northwest is a relatively new addition to the world scene. Europeans arrived in the later half of the 18th century, most notably with the expeditions of Captain Cook UK, Malaspina — Spanish and Bering — Russian. These expeditions mapped the area and catalogued its natural resources. Captain Vancouver, part of Cook's expedition, highly recommended Puget Sound as a suitable place for European colonization but thought it was too far from population centers. European settlement trickled in soon after, primarily in search of furs. In the first half of the 19th century a steady stream of immigrants from the Eastern part of the US arrived on foot and covered wagons by way of the Oregon Trail. The stream of people increased with the opening of the transcontinental railroad. The arrival of the jet plane further increased this migration from all over the world. Modern transportation made a once remote, yet bountiful, part of the world accessible and, for better or worse, exploitable.
A 400-mile corridor with eight million residents reaches from Eugene, Oregon, through Seattle, Washington to Vancouver, B.C. This region accounts for more than $250 billion in annual economic output and if ranked as a nation-state would be the 10th largest economy in the world. The region’s diversified economy includes a range of industries, from resource abstraction to high tech.
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