Chapter 371 Adjustment of Property Rights (II)
In just a few years, Zhou Shi, as a reborn, is equivalent to a chosen son in the eyes of others, from June 03 to May 09, 6 years, he has actually accumulated the wealth that others can accumulate for half a century. This is not a miracle, this is simply a miracle, if Zhou Shi believes in Christ, I am afraid that everyone will believe that he is the son of God. But just like it has been said for a long time in China that the Forbes ranking version is a pig-killing version, when it comes to foreign countries, in fact, there will not be much difference, and there are not many people who pay attention to the rich people on the Forbes list.
A person who does not have much foundation and has too much wealth, many people will be eyeing it, especially some people who are very powerful, but have lost a lot in the financial crisis, can save decades of accumulation overnight when they re-accumulate wealth and rob a rich man without foundation.
Fortunately, Galaxy Capital took the initiative to announce it after making money, and Zhou Shi controlled many Internet media channels, not only on Davos, but also had a lot of intersections with the founders of Google and Microsoft. Galaxy Capital acquired part of Lehman's assets in Eurasia, in addition to Lehman people like Gregory, it also compensated Lehman Brothers various stakeholders in various ways, and then immediately attracted investment from all over the world, and integrated into the mainstream wealth class at a rapid speed through Lehman's previous relationship. But it didn't necessarily work, hence the move to buy NBA teams and Premier League clubs.
Originally, Zhou Shi was resistant to acquiring the bank, mainly because various regulators would require Zhou Shi to disclose more information, and if his wealth was exposed, the greater the danger would be in the short term. But he forgot about the Fed, the Treasury will be more and more heavily regulated, and he may have nowhere to hide. In a few years, even Swiss banks will have to voluntarily hand over the account information of people from all over the world, which shows that it will be more and more difficult to hide wealth.
Zhou Shi will definitely hide some of the information they gave to offshore banks, although the secrecy of Swiss banks will be greatly discounted, but there are still many small countries in Europe whose bank secrecy laws are no worse than those of Switzerland. You know, no country can completely eradicate these phenomena, it will only increase the difficulty of secrecy.
There are many advantages to owning a bank, and no matter how the government regulates it, a bank under your control is the fastest way for money to flow out. Even if one day, Zhou Shi can't get along in the United States, mobilizing a few of his core members in the bank can quickly transfer a huge amount of money from the United States to Huaxia or other places. Just like after Lehman went bankrupt, a German bank still put hundreds of millions of euros in cash into Lehman's account, and other banks can do it, and East West Bank can do the same. So with your own bank, you will at least have the funds to make a comeback. What's more, Galaxy Capital and Tianhe Securities can have a relatively hidden funding channel, and it will not be so easy for people to see through the hole cards.
After discussing for a long time, although I felt that these things had nothing to do with companies such as Time, Lei Jun and others expressed a lot of opinions. In fact, there are not many ways, except that trusts are charitable foundations. In both cases, funds are not counted in the name of the individual, but the control is still in your own hands. Even if you use the funds in these funds to buy luxury goods such as airplanes and yachts for yourself. This is one of the reasons why many people on Forbes do not have as much wealth as they think.
Whether it is a trust or a charitable foundation, he will not do it in one step, limit all behaviors, and always leave room for himself to change at any time. Just like his current idea, the main thing is to set up a family trust, an environmental protection fund, and a life and health fund. Needless to say, family trusts maintain the livelihood of descendants and start a business. Environmental protection is also simple, and he has not set specific goals, whether it is desert management or the greenhouse effect. The concept of life and health is also very broad, and it can include biomedicine, sports, etc. Or you can add a peace promotion association, which is too straightforward, or call it a cultural and educational foundation, to promote cultural exchanges and mutual trust among all ethnic groups, and make educational opportunities more equal.
The reason why Zhou Shi did not immediately set up a trust and charitable fund was because this model still has limitations: a charitable fund cannot hold more than 20% of the shares in any one company, and the charitable fund must devote 5% of its assets to charity every year. There is no professional person to help him take charge of the operation of the fund, so how can he rest assured.
In addition to donations, it is also useful to set up different offshore companies around the world, but the company headquarters cannot be in the United States. This is also just right, anyway, now the three poles of the world, Zhou Shi must be laid out in Europe. Tianhe Securities let his headquarters stay in London, and then find time to move to Hong Kong or Singapore. In general, Zhou Shi's holdings in Galaxy Capital, including Alibaba, Baidu, Time, Friends, and Guoke, will be transferred to those NGOs, and he himself will retain about 10% of the shares of Time Holdings and Friends.com, and Guoke will no longer hold any shares in his personal name. The Sixiang Fund is very difficult to run, and the domestic one is a little difficult to do, and the shares of foreign capital in the Sixiang Fund cannot exceed 49 percent, and it is not realistic for him to transfer other shares to others, so it can only be like this.
After some adjustments, the assets held by Zhou Shi in his personal name are basically clear, 10% of Huaxia's Time Holdings and Friends, 9.7% of Friends in the United States, 12% of Amazon, 6% of Baidu (part of the secondary market acquisition), 1.5% of Apple, 9.9% of Netflix (too many personal holdings are not good, less than 10% is not easy to cause trouble), Marvel 19.9%, Sixiang Fund 55%, Galaxy Fund 5% (Zhou Shi does not have Galaxy Fund shares, no one will believe it, it is better to leave a small part out and put it in the open) Other stakes he holds in companies such as Tesla will be transferred to others, such as Autohome, Xueersi, DJI and LinkedIn (professional social network) in China to Xirui Wang, and Tesla, Spacex and Palantir (big data) to Li Ying. Zhou Shi's parents' career is to contribute people and money, and Zhou Shicai, a relative and friend in his hometown, is too lazy to care, and his parents are all dealing with it. Anyway, he flies all over the world and doesn't have much time to deal with it.
In this way, no matter how underestimated it is, Zhou Shi's wealth still exceeds 9 billion US dollars. The key to the difficulty of Forbes' next statistics is how much the Four Elephants Fund and Galaxy Capital are worth, which is difficult for them to know. But Zhou Shi's many assets will be revealed, for example, he invested more than $1 billion in Fengyun Sports, of which the Golden State Warriors invested nearly $300 million, invested 100 million pounds in the acquisition of Liverpool shares, and continued to invest in the purchase of players. $1 billion is not necessarily enough, fortunately, Liverpool's more than 300 million debts are in the hands of Galaxy Capital, don't worry about someone collecting debts, Zhou Shicai will not be like those tyrants in Russia and the United Arab Emirates, directly forgive Liverpool's debts, and then invest money crazily, professional and professional, he always has to show a different side, so that people can remember.
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