CUBA INVESTMENTS

5/24/2012

Cuba Investment In Tourism Havana Resorts

Russian Investors flock to Resorts in Havana and Varadero Cuba

Cuba Tourism Investment Breaks Record

Cuba Tourism Investment in Havana broke the Caribbean islands record in 2012 reported the Cuban Financial and Investment Ministry of Tourism and Financial Statistic Bureau of Banking.

The strategic long term investment funds in tourism by Cuba has resulted in huge increases in foreign Holiday vacationers that visit Cuba, Varadero, Matanzas, Cayo Coco, Trinidad and this Caribbean island beach paradise reached millions foretasted the Cuban tourism and Insurance bureau said, adding that the previous Cuban Health, Travel & Insurance record produced increases in revenue.

In 2012, the top Cuban tourist resorts located in Cuba, Havana, Trinidad, Cayo Largo & Varadero beaches received a record breaking 300,000 tourists, over 15,000 more tourist than the previous record. Cuba's top tourism and resort investment partner is still Canada the most valuable source of Cuban tourists, followed by Melia Group of Spain, Accor of France, Argentina, Germany, Russia and Mexico.

The Cuban Americans looking to invest in resorts coming from Miami Florida are the fastest growing tourist sector with over Five hundred thousand Cuban Americans travel to Cuba in the past year with millions more Americans expected to vacation in Cuba as soon as U.S. President Obama lifts the American travel restrictions.

English: Cuban dancers in Varadero (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Cuba Investments in resorts and tourism are also banking on Cuban health care insurance and medical tourism to serve as a the financial engine of growth to help the future development of other social, medical and economic projects, the Cuban government aims at receiving over 3 million tourists in 2012.

Cuban Investment Funds in Tourism

International Mutual Investment Funds are looking closer at resort investment in Havana Cuba's tourism hotel business where financial imports and domestic banking exports were up 20 percent during the first quarter of 2012, compared with last year due mainly to the increased income from tourism, Cuban travel, Health Insurance and health care services reported the Ministry of Cuban Insurance, Banking and Finance.

Increase in Cuban financial profits by 20 percent in Foreign exports according to managers at the Foreign International Trade Ministry. Increasing Cuba tourist is good news for Cuban President Raul Castro and his efforts to boost Cuba's debt ridden economy by increasing financial investments with export income and decreasing imports cost from high interest investment banks.

Cuba's imported $10 billion according to sources in Cuba banking ministry while's exports rose 20 percent and 15 percent of which was tourism, Cuban hotels and the remainder health and travel insurance services. The financial profits earned from tourism insurance services are accounted for by tourism and health care assistance. In Varadero tourist grew over 10 percent in April according to the Cuban National Statistics Office.

As a bonus for protecting the health care of foreign tourist in Cuba some 40,000 Cuban professionals, most from the health care sector, are working in the tourist sector in Varadero, Cayo Coco, Trinidad, Matanzas, Havana and also in oil-rich Venezuela and the bulk of earnings go to the Cuban government.

Cuba health care sector exports similar Insurance and surgery laser technical services to some 30 other countries with service category income that also includes communications and revenues from hospitals and joint ventures.

After 10 years of investing in Cuban tourism hotel sector Castro's investment funds appears to have paid off in order to boost exports and reduce imports which have resulted in annual trade surpluses averaging $2 billion since the first Cuban Investment back in 1990.

5/17/2012

FACEBOOK IN CUBA

Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

CUBA INVEST IN FACEBOOK IPO

Facebook IPO has attracted a lot of interest from Cuba Investment funds and other high risk investors that are always hunting for the next big investment strategy. Hard to believe that some wealthy Cuban based in Miami and Havana have set their investment strategy on grabbing a small piece of the Facebook investment pie now that the shares are publicly traded. Cubans in Havana declined to be interviewed however they did state that off the record there are no laws baring Cubans in the USA Europe or even Havana from investing in publicly traded companies especially high profile Internet companies like Facebook IPO.

Facebook logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

These wealthy Havana Cubans have also invested in Google & Apple stock thanks mainly to their iPhone that does indeed function in Cuba as well as Miami. Their Cuba investment strategy is to invest in Long term low risk investments in Cuba and the best way to do that today is through IPO like the Facebook IPO and invest on the brains of young social network kingpin Mark Zuckerberg who estimates that there are over 2 Million Cuban users on Facebook today who live both in and out of Cuba. Thats a huge market that an investor cannot ignore while investing in Cuba and the Facebook IPO

CUBA FACEBOOK INTERNET CELL PHONES

Cuba Investment Opportunities

Cuba Mutual Funds - Investments in Cuba - Cuba Investment Guide

HOW TO INVEST IN CUBA LIST

Cuba has become the forbidden fruit of the mutual funds and investment funds industry. International investors can now invest directly in Cuba Mutual funds and Cuba investment via a variety of strategic long term investments in Cuba.

1. Cuba Mutual Funds

On the New York Stock exchange the Herzfield Caribbean Basin Fund under the Stock symbol NYSE: CUBA is publicly traded as a Cuba mutual fund but beware as it has very little direct investment in Cuba. Once the embargo lifts this fund will be a top performing Cuba mutual fund.

2. Cuba Forex Trading

Cuba currency trading on Forex exchanges are not really available in today's investment arena however you can buy & sell Cuban debt in European markets. They are risky cheap and can be very profitable after the embargo lifts.

3. Cuba Investment Funds

Cuba does not have many companies to invest directly in however there are a few foreign investment funds that specialize in Cuba investments. The main low risk investments in Cuba are via CIEBA investments a Jersey offshore investment company that is listing in the TSE. The fund has the top management with expert foreign investors that live in Havana and have done business with Cuba for over 15 years.

4. Cuba Investment Company

Many Publicly traded companies do business in Cuba with a few that are over 90% Cuba investments. Stock companies that you can invest in are Leisure Canada for Cuba real estate, Melia group for hotels, Repsol & Petrobras for oil & Gas, York Medical for Cancer Drugs, and the best Cuba investment is the Canadian company Sherritt International listed on the TSE under the symbol "S" which is by far the biggest, most experienced and most successful foreign company in Cuba with investments in Oil, Gas, Hotels & real estate.

Cuba Property Investments

5/11/2012

CUBA INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Invest In Cuba Mutual Funds for Resort Development

INVEST IN CUBA

Opportunities to Invest in the Cuban economy can be made in the Cuban real estate market by investing in shares other foreign Publicly traded stocks that like a Cuba Mutual fund only easier to liquidate in case of you need quick access to your funds.

To Invest in Cuba many early investors took huge risk by investing money in Cuba during the early years of Cuba's so called “economic miracle" hoping for huge risk related returns. Foreign Cuba Mutual Funds invested because the fund managers know that it’s important to be early into this kind of high rick emerging market investment. In many historical investing countries by the time TV, Newspapers and magazines are full of stories about a new opportunity, the real huge cash has usually been made by Mutual Fund Investments.

CUBA MUTUAL FUNDS

It seems like proper to invest in Cuba now that the Pope has been to Cuba, and 85 year old Fidel Castro is out of the picture for good replaced by his younger 82 year old brother Raul Castro. With the American opening their Cuba policy now seems to be the perfect time to Invest in Cuba and examine your Cuba Investment Strategy and plan how to profit from a free and open-market Cuba just a stone's throw from America.

You can’t guaranteed that your Cuban investment opportunities will be profitable however there is potential of massive profits available in lower risk areas such as Cuban real estate funds, Cuban mutual funds, Cuban Forex investments and other more stable Cuba investment strategies that are currently unavailable to most foreign investors. In fact one day soon you may be able to buy your favorite Cuba investment opportunities on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbols "C.U.B.A"

5/03/2012

INVESTMENT IN CUBA

Havana Hotel Investment In Varadero Cuba By American Investors

AMERICAN HOTEL INVESTMENT IN CUBA
The Cuba investment opportunities of the last sixty years of the 20th century shows that the deregulation of the Cuban economy and of American Hotel investment process was zero and did not bring about any communications between American Investors interests and those of international foreign investors. Economic policies and strategies were required yet not supported by adequate instruments to implement them that would better guide the investment flows.

Investments in main productions and basic services such as communications, power generation, oil refining were carried out by foreign companies. Banking system were controlled by U.S. and English investment banks. The best lands were in the hands of sugar and cattle corporations from the United States, and Cuba controlled 75% of Cuban foreign trade. A few years later, the American companies displaced the companies from other countries, and 95% of the accumulated foreign investment corresponded to American interests.The majority of the Cuba economic control of society went hand in hand with political control. 1950 facilities were created with the purpose of undertaking a resort and casino tourist development with financing and credits that were granted with international and national financial resources to encourage foreign companies to build hotels on the best beaches of Havana, Varadero and Cuba

OLD INVESTMENT IN CUBA
In 1959 foreign investments in Cuba came to an abrupt end thanks to Fidel Castro and the Cuban revolution. Foreign companies were nationalized and agreements were signed with almost all countries whose enterprises or citizens had been affected with the purpose of granting due compensation. Although the Cuban government proposed a plan to compensate the U.S. companies and citizens, Cuba found it impossible to discuss a solution with U.S. administrations who refused to negotiate and have forbidden the affected American investors and individuals to negotiate directly with Cuba. One of the most famous hotels to be confiscated was the Hotel National De Cuba.

In the 1990's Cuba changed direction again when the first joint venture was created between a Cuban enterprise and a Spanish company with the purpose of building a chain of luxury hotels on the best beaches of Cuba in the tourist resort of Varadero on the basis of Decree-Law No. 50 of 1982. Many foreign investors suspected that the Melia hotels were owned indirectly by Fidel Castro.

The change in Cuban investments attitude started a huge growth wave of investment in resorts and hotels from 1991 to 1999, foreign investment was accelerated as the most important investment for Cuban authorities to recover from the serious impact to the Cuban economy caused by the loss of Russian investment and the economic links with other Socialist countries in the framework of the Council of Mutual Economic Aid (COMECON). The economic loss resulted in the loss of 35% of Cuba's GDP in the first three years of the nineties with strong economic and social effects. In 1998 to 2001 foreign investment expanded and more resorts and hotel deals were signed with important partners in new tourism sectors.

Fidel Castro stepped down and Raul Castro opened the flood gates of Foreign Investments into Cuba as investors from 46 countries operate in almost 400 ventures in 32 sectors of the Cuban economy; 52 % of those investors are from European Union countries: 24% from Spain, almost 15% from Italy, 4% from France, 3.5% from the United Kingdom. Tourism, Oil and Gas, Mining,Energy and Telecoms are the main sectors of investment. Thus, foreign direct investment, focused on the search for new external markets, competitive technologies and financing has played an important role in the country's economic recovery.

Invest In Cuban Beach Front Property Near Havana Varadero Cuba

CUBA BEST LOCATION FOR INVESTORS

Cuba is located in a region whose share of virgin investment beaches in terms of world investment is rapidly growing as top international hotel groups look at Cuba for future developments. This, together with Cuban beaches potential and North American integration process, makes hundreds of business people contact the Cuban Economic Development And Investment Office of the Cuban Embassy in Havana in search of information about investment opportunities in the Cuban beaches and resort hotel and real estate sectors.

Foreign investment is not associated to a privatization process in Cuba; it is rather focused on specific objectives that focus on Cuban development opportunities that are important to offer much higher investment returns for foreign capital involvement.

In 2003, the National Assembly of the People's Power (Cuba's Parliament) approved a number of foreign investment amendments to the Constitution of the Republic of Cuba with a view to allowing real estate ownership for private investors and joint ventures were legalized and defined.

4/23/2012

INVEST IN CUBA

Investments in Havana Cuba now open

CUBA INVESTMENTS
Before Fidel Castro revolution of 1959, Cuba embraced capitalism and issued more investments in stocks and bonds for commerce and infrastructure than any other country in the world including the USA. Now Cuba has unfortunately defaulted on its last issued bonds and are not traded on the NYSE or New York Bond Exchange due to the American Embargo law, better know as the Helms Burton Law. However now that Cuban President Raul Castro has begun to open the Cuban investment opportunities, many investors are once again looking for big changes in Cuba. Most smart investors are looking for opportunities to invest in Cuba to maximize their growth from increasing GDP and business within Cuba. American President Obama Administration is also planning a new fresh look at USA-Cuba relations similar to the recently announced new look at USA-Iran relations. A welcome move by Cuba by allowing the complete release of political prisoners, pluralism, true democratic process and monitored secret ballot voting will be reciprocated by positive efforts from many nations like Spain Canada, Brazil and more importantly the USA to help the people of Cuba.

Cuba Economy needs Investment and financial access to global capital and entrepreneurial capitalists to supply funds to open Cuban contracts to be honored. Cuba has traded doctors and healthcare professionals in exchange for oil with Venezuela. Cuba also has current joint investment ventures with Spain, Canada, Brazil, India, China, Russia and others to build out infrastructure, explore for oil in the Gulf of Mexico, improve transportation, and get needed things that are not available from the USA.

HOW DO I INVEST IN CUBA?

Cuba Beaches (Photo credit: citronate)

So the logical next question is "How do international investors invest directly in Cuba?
One way is to purchase Cuban issued debt. Good Luck! These tricky bonds can be purchased through European broker dealers. U. S. citizens are limited by USA laws as to how they can invest in Cuba however U.S. citizens can buy shares in international securities that do business with Cuba but do not receive a majority percentage of Profits of their corporate revenues from Cuban activities and operations. Therefore an American investor can easliy and legally buy into Canada, Spain and Mexico and other companies that have corporations doing business directly with Cuba.

The Cuban investment options include a closed end investment fund, based in Miami, Florida has a portfolio of companies within the fund that the manager believes will benefit from a lifting of the US Embargo against Cuba. The prospectus of the closed end fund (NYSE symbol: CUBA) lists the companies. Many of these companies can be purchased directly by investors without any need to purchase the closed end fund itself.
Insider Cuban investors know that best kept secret investment for Cuba in the short and long term is the closed end investment fund that was listed on the Channel Island Stock Exchange, under the symbol CIEBA with a focused portfolio of investments directly inside Cuba. CEIBA Investments Ltd. www.ceibainvestments.com is currently the largest listed company exclusively dedicated to investments in Cuba with interests in Cuban commercial property and tourism real estate assets.
It is the foreign shareholder of the Cuban joint venture that owns the Miramar Trade Center in Havana and also holds interests in four hotels managed by the Spanish hotel operator Meliá. However, US persons are currently prohibited from investing in a Cuba dedicated company such as CEIBA. As for management? CIEBA Investments has also put together the most expereinced foriegn investment management team that live and work directly from Havana in Cuba to manage the day to day operations of the Cuban joint Ventures.

Any investor in the World can travel to Cuba without restrictions EXCEPT U.S. citizens. Travel to Cuba is not restricted for U.S. citizens but spending any money in Cuba is illegal over a certain daily allowance or unless you have a General or Specific License from the US Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control.

These American regulations and restrictions against Cuba will change under the Obama Administration and soon many US citizens will be able to travel to Cuba. Additional ways US investors can legally travel to see Cuba and make Cuban contacts for business in order to find potential future opportunities is to travel with your State Governor or agricultural trade delegation to Cuba or, if you are licensed healthcare professional, you may be able to travel to Cuba with any non profit health, information, travel or even business group.

Diversified investors may be interested in emerging markets and Cuba will emerge as a powerhouse of Silicon Island in the areas of biotechnology, energy (sugarcane, oil) and tourism. Investing in Cuba will be compared to investments in oil, gas, gold and other precious metals when they were only pennies on the dollar. Let hope we are right on this Investment in Cuba.

1/30/2012

CUBA SELLS REAL ESTATE

Cuba Real Estate For Sale In Havana

CUBA PROPERTY FOR SALE AFTER 50 YEARS
Cuba announced Thursday it will allow real estate to be bought and sold for the first time since the early days of the revolution, the most important reform yet in a series of free-market changes under President Raul Castro.
The law, which takes effect Nov. 10, applies to citizens living in Cuba and permanent residents only, according to a red-letter headline on the front page of Thursday's Communist Party daily Granma and details published in the government's Official Gazette.
The law limits Cubans to owning one home in the city and another in the country, an effort to prevent the accumulation of large real estate holdings. It requires that all real estate transactions be made through Cuban bank accounts so that they can be better regulated, and says the transactions will be subject to bank commissions.
Sales will also be subject to an eight per cent tax on the assessed value of the property, paid equally by buyer and seller. In the case where Cubans exchange homes of equal value in a barter agreement, each side will pay four per cent of the value of their home.
"This is a very big step forward. With this action the state is granting property rights that didn't exist before," said Philip J. Peters, a Cuba analyst at the Lexington Institute in Arlington, Virginia. "If you think about it from the point of view of a Cuban family, it converts their house from a place to live into a source of wealth or a source of collateral. It's an asset that can now be made liquid."
While the Gazette was available online, few Cubans have access to the Internet and most were waiting for the booklet to go on sale at kiosks around the country. A handwritten sign posted at Havana's main distribution center Thursday advised that the law booklet was not yet on sale.
On the streets of Havana, residents said they were thrilled by the news but anxious to see the fine print.
"This is going to help me because I have some money and now I will be able to buy a better house," said Oscar Palacios Delgado, a 68-year-old office maintenance worker, adding he hoped the government would enact other changes to make it easier for Cubans to find building materials for home repairs. "This law will benefit many Cubans."
Cuban exiles will not be allowed to purchase property on the island since they are not residents. Still, they will be able to send money to help relatives buy new homes, and there was speculation some might try to buy homes themselves through frontmen, something the government would likely try to prevent.
The change follows October's legalization of buying and selling cars, though with restrictions that still make it hard for ordinary Cubans to buy new vehicles.
Castro has also allowed citizens to go into business for themselves in a number of approved jobs -- everything from party clowns to food vendors to accountants -- and has pledged to streamline the state-dominated economy by eliminating half a million government workers.
Cuba's government employs more than 80 per cent of the workers in the island's command economy, paying wages of just $20 US a month in return for free education and health care, and nearly free housing, transportation and basic foods. Castro has said repeatedly that the system is not working since taking over from his brother Fidel in 2008, but he has vowed that Cuba will remain a socialist state.

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Cubans have long bemoaned the ban on property sales, which took effect in stages over the first years after Fidel Castro came to power in 1959. In an effort to fight absentee ownership by wealthy landlords, Fidel enacted a reform that gave title to whoever lived in a home. Most who left the island forfeited their properties to the state. Since no property market was allowed, the rules have meant that for decades Cubans could only exchange property through complicated barter arrangements, or through even murkier black-market deals where thousands of dollars change hands under the table, with no legal recourse if transactions go bad.
Some Cubans entered into sham marriages to make deed transfers easier. Others made deals to move into homes ostensibly to care for an elderly person living there, only to inherit the property when the person died.
Cubans will also now be allowed to inherit property from relatives without having to live in it first, and they will be able to take title of property of relatives or others who emigrate. Previously, such properties could be seized by the state.

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