Dear Reader,

If you are a bit like me, you worry about America's future.

• Energy independence? That's going out the window fast.
• Food prices? Check your local grocer to see how fast they are rising.
• Stock prices? The most expensive they have been in 20 years.

These are just some examples... 

And to be clear, I am an optimist rather than a doomsayer. 

However, I am also a realist. 

In particular, I am concerned about the American stock market.

It has produced massive returns since 2008, but will it be the same during the 2020s? 

When I invest, I prefer to buy assets that are undervalued, come with a high annual yield, and put me on the right side of global, secular growth trends.

Growth, high yield, undervalued – am I crazy, you might ask? Where could you find all these wrapped into one? 

I’m not loco, I am just well informed. These opportunities do exist. However, at this point in the cycle, they are mostly found outside of the US. 

That's all the more case when your home country has a government that is actively, aggressively working against the interest of its own citizens. 

Cheap, abundant energy for American citizens? Biden wants the opposite for you. If you are in any doubt, check your nearest gas station for prices.

Obviously, SOMEONE benefits from his policies. If you own oil and gas companies abroad, you are currently laughing all the way to the bank. The Biden administration is providing windfall profits for fossil fuel-producing nations around the world – including Russia, Saudi Arabia, and a host of others. CEOs and politicians in these countries are also laughing all the way to the bank.

According to the Financial Times, the CEO of Saudi Aramco, the world's largest oil firm, is seeing a "great opportunity" because the US is reducing its energy production.

In the second quarter of 2021, Saudi Aramco's net income rose 400% to USD 25.5bn. A lot of that is coming straight from the pockets of American consumers. And guess what, Saudi Aramco is paying out most of it as dividends that go into someone else's pockets.

Sad, but true.

At the very least, you can make money off it. Provided, of course, you have access to the right kind of information. Just to be clear, that won't require you to invest in Saudi America; I just picked that as a vivid, tangible example. You can make investments nearer to home – in the Americas.

There is one country in our part of the hemisphere that will benefit heavily from the US ban on further fracking development. There is a great investment opportunity coming out of all this, and you can benefit by buying a stock that is traded on the New York Stock Exchange. With a market cap of well over a billion-dollar, this company is liquid enough for private investors to easily buy and sell the stock.

The difficulty is, how do you find reliable, actionable information about such opportunities? 

CNN sure won't help you with this one. The New York Times or even Barron's? Not a chance.

Today, you need to tap into independent experts to get the best advice.

That's why I love having close friends in my network. 

He was introduced to me through a mutual friend, nothing beats making new contacts through trusted sources. 

Meet: Swen Lorenz, founder of Undervalued-Shares.com

Swen is someone you'll hear more about in my newsletter in the future. We recently spent hours talking over Zoom and he'll be visiting me in November as soon as international travelling allows. There are several touchpoints between Swen's work and Expat Money – which is why I wanted you to be aware of him asap.

Swen's background is in investing. He started early and never stopped. At just 46 years old, he has 31 years of experience in the stock market. His approach has always been to look at the entire world and pick the best investments for himself and his readers.

Along the way, Swen has made use of global opportunities in multiple areas:

• In the 2000s, he was one of the founders of a property fund in Macau, the Special Economic Zone near Hong Kong that has become a gambling haven. With his partners, he built a property portfolio worth USD 300m before most people even located Macau on a map. 

• In the 2010s, he lived in South America for a few years where he gained a diplomatic visa and lived tax-free. See why I said we have many mutual interests?

• In 2020, he started a global campaign to repopulate the tiny island of Sark in the English Channel, a forgotten tax haven that had suffered from a declining population. A Sark resident himself, Swen single-handedly attracted over 100 new residents, increasing the population by 20%. His campaign helped raise property prices by 30% to 50% in just a year.

How awesome is that!

Swen and I will talk about his work on my podcast sometime. In the meantime, I wanted to have introduced him to you first.

To make a start, I asked Swen: "What's the best offer you can make my subscribers right now?"

"Easy", he said.

Undervalued-Shares.com has three service levels:

• FREE: a weekly column about a wide range of investment-related subjects.
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• $49 USD p.a.: an Annual Membership that gets you Swen's best 10 investment ideas each year, presented as in-depth reports. All of the picks are liquid stocks, i.e. easy to buy and sell.
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• $999 USD one-off: a Lifetime Membership that gets you everything that's included in the annual membership, plus 4 additional investment ideas each year. These are chosen from small and midcap stocks – more exclusive, less liquid. Besides, you only have to pay once, to enjoy the service for many years to come.

I've got a lifetime membership myself and I can assure you it's top-notch. Undervalued-Shares.com does what it says on the tin, and I love the reliable, common sense, actionable information about investment opportunities that Swen throws my way - ideas that you won't find anywhere else

In my not-so-humble opinion, anyone who has an interest in international investing would be a fool not to claim one of the following offers. They are specifically tailored and exclusively available to registered readers of Expat Money, and are valid until September 30th, 2021 only.

• Use this special link to sign up for Swen's FREE Weekly Column. This will also get you a copy of the 46-page research report about one of the world's cheapest agriculture stocks – which benefits from the increasing food price inflation, and hedges your portfolio against higher bills for groceries. The stock introduced in this report is traded on the New York Stock Exchange. It's already up an amazing amount since the report came out, but has the potential to multiply from here onwards. 

• Use this special link to sign up for Swen's Annual Membership. It's a steal at just $49 USD a year, similar websites would charge you 10-20 times as much. You'll also get 1 free report that is normally accessible only to his $999 USD lifetime members. Over 39 pages, this report reveals a stock that could multiply during the new age of fossil fuel shortages that we are facing thanks to Biden's crazy energy politics. This stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. 

• Go all-in right away with a Lifetime Membership and pick Swen's brain in person! Swen does not usually offer personal consultations, but for me, he is making an exception. If you buy his lifetime membership for $999 USD, he throws in a voucher for a personal consultation by Zoom. You can use it right away or in 2 years – and you can pick his brain on any subject you like. Swen has never offered anything like this before, and he may never offer it again.

I can only repeat myself: you'd be a fool not to make use of any of the above offers.

In times like these, it's more important than ever before to look after your own interests. There's still money to be made, provided you know where to look and whom to trust. Swen is one of those guys you should check out. 

You might not change America's future, but you can secure your own!

Talk soon,

Mikkel

PS. If nothing else, go subscribe to his FREE Weekly Column, it's fantastic

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