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Migrating to Singapore through the MAS Scheme

This is one of routes to Singapore migration. You can migrate to Singapore thru the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) Financial Investor Scheme (FIS).

The Singapore government and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), in their quest to boost Singapore’s status as a centre for private banking and wealth management, set up a new investment scheme to get Singapore Permanent Residence. This scheme, the Financial Investor Scheme (FIS), is our third route for Singapore migration.

There are two types of financial commitments under the FIS for Singapore Permanent Residence.

• Option A: requires the applicant to place in Singapore at least SGD 5 million of financial assets with a financial institution regulated by the MAS.
• Option B: requires the applicant to hold at least SGD 3 million of assets and a Sentosa Cove bungalow on Sentosa Island.

Who is eligible?

An applicant should place in Singapore at least S$5 million worth of assets which is to be booked and managed by a financial institution that is regulated by the MAS. The assets should comprise of a financial asset of not less than S$ 3 million and amount which is not more than S$2 million in properties.

A financial asset can be any of the following:

(a) bank deposits;
(b) capital market products;
(c) collective investment schemes;
(d) premiums paid in respect of life insurance policies; and
(e) other investment products.

The eligible Singapore property is subject to foreign ownership restrictions under the Residential Properties Act. Only newly acquired property purchased within 6 months from the formal submission of the application can be included.

Applicants may include their immediate family members (spouse and unmarried children below 21 years old).

After residing as a PR in Singapore for 2 years, you may be eligible to apply for citizenship.

Source : 17 August 2009

CDL expects to start South Beach in Q3 ‘10

Q2 net profit falls on lower development margins, weaker hotel showing

CITY Developments Ltd (CDL) executive chairman Kwek Leng Beng says construction of the delayed South Beach project is likely to begin around the third quarter of next year, with CDL and new investor Nan Fung group of Hong Kong probably the ones that will pump in further money.

CDL’s two earlier joint-venture partners in South Beach, El-Ad Group and Dubai World, are likely to be passive investors who may then see their share in the project diluted. ‘I think they have other priorities,’ Mr Kwek said on the sidelines of CDL’s Q2 results briefing yesterday.

The group posted a 15.3 per cent drop in net earnings to $139.98 million and a 32.4 per cent decline in first-half net profit to $223.1 million due to lower profit margins from property development and a weaker showing from its hotels business, which was hit by the global economic slump. Continue reading