Thursday, December 28, 2006

Nam Tai Electronics, Inc.


Industry: Electronics


Main business locations: Global

Registered Office:
116 Main Street
3rd Floor
Road Town, Tortola
British Virgin Islands

Listed on: NYSE
Ticker: NTE

Financial highlights:
Sales: $797.2 million (2005)
Operating profits: $52.7 million (2005)
Market Capitalization: $670 million (December 28, 2006)

Main shareholders:
M. K. Koo: 13.0%
Peter R. Kellogg: 13.0%
I.A.T. Reinsurance Syndicate Ltd.: 11.7%

About the BVI Company:

Nam Tai Electronics, Inc. is a company working in the spheres of electronics manufacturing and design services. It was founded in 1975 in Hong Kong as an electronic products trading company. In 1978 the company's focus was changed to manufacturing of electronic products. In 1980 they moved their manufacturing facilities to China; later these were relocated to Shenzhen, China, in order to take advantage of opportunities offered in southern China. At the moment the company is domiciled in the British Virgin Islands.

Nam Tai provides its services to a select group of the world's leading OEMs of telecommunications and consumer electronic products. The range of manufactured goods includes electronic components and sub-assemblies, e.g. LCD panels and modules, RF modules, DAB modules, FPC sub-assemblies and image sensors modules and PCBA for BluetoothTM headsets. The components are used in numerous electronic products, including cellular phones, laptop computers, digital cameras, electronic toys, handheld video game devices and microwave ovens. The company also produces finished products, namely, cellular phones in semi-knocked down, or SKD, form, mobile phone accessories and educational products.

Nam Tai services include also hardware and software design, component purchasing, assembly into finished products or electronic sub-assemblies and post-assembly testing. They also provide original design manufacturing, or ODM, services, which include designing and developing proprietary products that are sold by our OEM customers under their brand names.

Monday, December 25, 2006

800Pay Limited

Industry: E-commerce solutions

Main business locations: Global

Registered Office:
Trident Chambers,
P.O. Box 146,
Road Town, Tortola
British Virgin Islands

Incorporation year: 2004

800Pay Limited is a company established in the British Virgin Islands on January 2004, providing advanced payment solution services to e-commerce enterprises. The company is affiliated with major worldwide companies, assisting clients to develop their businesses, providing the end users with a full range of payment solutions. End-to-end financial services include online transaction processing and payments, detection and prevention of fraud, reconciliations and monitoring of transactions.

800Pay offers an extensive and dynamic range of payments solutions to meet the demands of a constantly changing marketplace. These services are offered for highly competitive rates and include processing for credit cards and local debit cards, instant multi-payment solution processing channels, e-cash and ACH processing, multi-currency support, advanced fraud detection services, state-of-the-art data verification, chargeback prevention and handling, protected servers to prevent unauthorized access.

Friday, December 22, 2006

Eastern Property Holdings Ltd

Industry (Profile): Real estate

Main business locations: Russia, the CIS countries

Registered Office:
PO Box 3161,
Road Town, Tortola,
British Virgin Islands

Auditors: PricewaterhouseCoopers

Listed on:
SWX Swiss Exchange
Swiss Security Number: 1673866
Ticker: EPH

Eastern Property Holdings Ltd is a Swiss-listed BVI company engaged in activities with investments in real estate, development of real estate and other real estate transactions. The company is primarily focusing on real estate objects in Russia and the CIS countries. The company has the objective to invest directly or through subsidiaries in real estate in Russia and other CIS countries, in the existing property and development projects. Eastern Property also purchases participation in other companies with real estate related activities, provides real estate financing, real estate management, sale and lease back of real estate, and enters into financial transactions related to real estate. The company portfolio includes Berlin House (Moscow), Petrovsky Fort (St. Petersburg), Hypercenter Investment SA (Moscow), etc.

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Interfax Inc.

Industry: Internet; Telecommunications

Main business locations: US, UK, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Turkey, Israel, Japan

Registered Office:
Geneva Place, Wickhams Cay 1
P.O.Box 3339
Road Town, Tortola
British Virgin Islands

Incorporation year: 1996

Interfax is a BVI-incorporated company specializing in computer-based faxing services since 1996. Initially the company offered a fax-on-demand service, then went on to offer fax broadcasting, and in 1999 launched an Internet faxing system with send and receive capability. Now several thousand users send and receive over 20 million pages a year using InterFAX services.

InterFAX's core faxing network has been operational since 1996. It has nodes in the United States, UK, Germany, Israel and Japan, numerous fax servers and hundreds of phone lines. The system can send and receive thousands of faxes per hour, and can accommodate any size request.

InterFAX offers a range of simple and well-documented API's, for customers wishing to integrate faxing into software applications, such as order processing, travel management and workflow systems. A free developer program allows programmers to test their applications on an operational system, with no commitment. InterFAX provides free support and assistance by the in-house developers who build and maintain the system.

The main office of the company is located in the British Virgin Islands, while offices of distributors are located in the USA, UK, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Japan, Israel and other countries.

Monday, December 18, 2006

The Paradigm Fund

Industry: Financial Services -> Investment Services

Main business locations: Europe, North America, Far East, New Zealand, Japan

Registered Office:
Paradigm Fund Ltd.
Sea Meadow House
Blackbourne Highway
(P.O. Box 116)
Road Town, Tortola
British Virgin Islands

Incorporation year: 1998

Bankers: The Royal Bank of Scotland, Isle of Man

Auditors: KPMG

Legal Advisors on BVI law:
Harney, Westwood & Riegels LLP
3RD Floor, 7 Ludgatge Broadway
London EC4V 6DX

About the BVI company:

The BVI incorporated Paradigm Fund Ltd. is investing only with funds which have been identified as having developed a sophisticated, risk-controlled investment strategy, and have shown the consistent positive performance. The Paradigm Fund accesses management capabilities available to institutions with high minimum investments required.

At the moment the company has over 12 funds in the portfolio with over 70 investments. The main points of investment strategy of the Paradigm Fund are principal focusing on a portfolio of complementary fund of fund investment managers, including a small portion of selected and monitored individual managed funds, diversifying portfolio across maximum alternative strategies, maximizing risk-adjusted total returns while maintaining long-term capital appreciation.

The main objective of the Paradigm Fund is to produce a net annual return of 10% to 15% with a maximum volatility of 6%. The fund's return objective can be achieved in both bull and bear market environments and should show lower levels of correlation with major stock & fixed income indices. The fund is investing in various alternative funds with excellent management ability and consistent performance.