“What If I Had Invested in Ukraine?”
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While tensions between Russia and Ukraine have been rising for years, the current military action raises the risk of a protracted conflict with Ukraine. It creates concerns about the potential impact on financial markets and the global economy. A lot of entrepreneurs who are diversifying internationally asking ''What If I invested in Ukraine'
In this video, Andrew shares his thoughts on it.
00:00 Start
00:50 Investing in Ukraine
02:05 Diversification Strategies
04:15 Best Countries to Invest In
07:56 The Future of Ukraine
08:19 Investing in Turkey
09:58 What Are The Seven Risks Of Real Estate Investment?
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"My apartment is only 1% of my net worth!" Oh lovely Andrew
It’s probably the truth though, dude ain’t playin.
Could be 1.8%. Total assets 5.5 million!!
Could be 1% of 10 million!!
Have 500k € frozen there now. Mainly real estate and land, so hope they are not lost. I love Kyiv and the Ukrainians and all my prayers to my friends there now.
Sorry !
your money is not "frozen".. you money has been STOLEN long ago.
It will be all fine, thanks to Ukrainian Arm Forces!
I love Kyiv, had to leave in January. Even Ukrainians didn't like to put their money in Ukrainian banks, though. Good people, too many politicians taking a cut.
you mean yu loveD Kyiv....
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What has happened in Ukraine obviously has implications for Georgia and Armenia. Potentially very negative implications.
Armenia has a great relationship with Russia (and the West). Georgia more or less (begrudgingly) gets along well with Russia.
You don't understand
And Azerbaijan. Totally agree
invest in the rebulid of ukraine next year will be huge money
In October and again in early Feb, I was about to invest in Ukraine. But I couldn't travel because I'm not vaccinated so I held off.
It pays to not get vaccinated
How lucky
You didn't need to be vaccinated to enter Ukraine. I wasn't, and I lived there until January.
@@VagabondAnne can't board a plane in Canada if your not vaccinated.
@@VagabondAnne I think he meant that his home country didn't allow him to leave until he gets vaccinated. Some countries have such policies
Ukraine was the top country to outsource for UX/UI designers and now they're scattered. I don't see Ukraine coming back for at least 10 years. What about more stable and peaceful eastern European countries like Slovenia and Estonia? They're also good to outsource for UX/UI designers
At this point, people need to consider the neighborhood risk. Estônia has lots of Russians living there and some with grievances against the Estonian government. Until Putin is gone, property in former Soviet states not associated with Russia faces some war risk.
@@chipyoung4396 I rather deal with Putin, who is a strong man than a weak simp with no balls.
You can still hire UX/UI personnel through virtual employees.
There are lots of women in UI/UX in Ukraine, I believe more than men actually. So you can still outsource your UX/UI to Ukraine, since most of UI/UX designers are either in safe areas with a possibility of moving abroad or have moved abroad already.
Stay away from that region. If Poland or Finland does something stupid things can go very hot very quickly there.
Believe it or not properly values in Lviv Ukraine are apparently going up right now due to so many Ukrainian people moving from the East to the western city. This according to my daughter in law who is from Lviv but now lives in Canada. Her dad and uncle and some cousins are still there and will have to fight. Unfortunately today the first civilians were killed there by shelling so this may change.
Thank you for explaining your thought process for investment
Happy to help you.
As always a good balanced view and great advice. Now if only I can have 10million dollars to put it to use.
I been looking at buying houses in villages
I was working on a 3 year temporary residence with work permit for Ukraine. I had gotten my 90 day version and needed to travel to Kyiv to get it converted to 3yr. The process takes about 3 weeks. My visa started the week before the war. I didn’t go. Have been a few times as a tourist and was getting ready to test the waters. I started the process in September. By December I was getting nervous. Got the visa issued in January. Watched and waited and watched and waited. Once Russia didn’t pull its troops out of Belarus on time and it was reported they had moved blood / plasma (short storage life) to the front line I was convinced something was going to happen. But I’m not completely psychic. I thought it would be Donbas only. I got that part wrong.
times when banks were insecure gone away many years ago actually. everyone uses them. we have relatively good online banks(they were much better than average in europe before new wave banks like revolut appeared but even for now they're pretty good). Really, i'm now working i Switzerland and just see how obsolete this 'bank mecca' is.
I plan to continue to invest in Kyiv. Not only because i'm Ukrainian but also because it's a great opportunity to buy at the bottom of a trend.
Epam Systems had nearly half of its developers in Ukraine, so lots of companies had invested there in one way or another.
Diversification mitigates that kind of risks.
How is Ireland for investment, i have 4 houses in India, want to buy 5th one in Ireland. And then another one in US.
Wasn't a lot of the investments people did in Ukraine farmland, farmers from western Europe and US that found very fertile soil for a 1/5 of what it should have cost them to buy it in the west ?
nope, only citizens were allowed to buy farmland larger than a home garden.
@@VagabondAnne good policy, I think.
@@VagabondAnne
Well i seen several documentaries on it, both from Sweden and Netherlands, in that case you mean they got the citizenship first and ought the land after or was it used as a citizen by investment program ?
No you cannot buy farmland as a foreigner but you can rent farmland
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If you invested you lost money if you invest during the war you'll probably make a lot of money once the war is over.
The only worry id have with it is what would happen to your property if Russia wins would it still be your property or would Russia claim it? However since the land right now is about €2500 per hectare it might just be a future goldmine
Question is what happened to Ukraine can happen to Georgia or Latvia, some of your fav countries and then what?
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if you invested in ukraine you just wait 2 years and get more money out of your investments
100%
Yes, so true. This is the reason why I decided to stay in the US
Rather than get citizenship in say St Kitts and then just live anywhere you want? With no demands from the country you are staying in like the couple from Crypto Tips. Pointing to the Ukraine as a reason to not diversify isn't really a solid defense. The Ukraine wasn't exactly a top choice for most people anyways.
For what some people must pay the US in taxes it would be more than the 100k you would have potentially lost on a home in the Ukraine anyways.
Do you recommend I put my entire "fortune" in Transnistrea?! 😆
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Thank you for your video! Ukraine doesnt allow dual nationality (as our Georgian friend can attest to). Getting it has trapped a number of senior official coming from abroad. And corruption in tax and registration means you could go to jail back at home (thanks OECD Anti-Bribery Convention). Portfolio residence/citizenship has definite downsides in a borderless world. Make you your ‘diversification’ doesnt heap tons of risk on you. And ‘touch’ to a jurisdiction opens you up to its political whims. And like 3 of my unfortunate colleagues found out, men have to fight and can not leave… no matter how much money you have.
Sorry for the repeat. I cant edit or delete this for some reason.
Thank you for your video! Ukraine doesnt allow dual nationality (as our Georgian friend can attest to). Getting it has trapped a number of senior official coming from abroad. And corruption in tax and registration means you could go to jail back at home (thanks OECD Anti-Bribery Convention). Portfolio residence/citizenship has definite downsides in a borderless world. Make sure your ‘diversification’ doesnt heap tons of risk on you. And a ‘touch’ to a jurisdiction opens you up to its political whims. Like 3 of my unfortunate colleagues found out, men have to fight and can not leave… no matter how much money you have.
It kind of does. If you acquire another citizenship as a Ukrainian, there is only a provision that the president of Ukraine can cancel it, if he wants to. (but he never does). If you want to become Ukrainian, then there are some ways to keep your original one.
@@alexioffe8523 exactly
These risks are unfortunately normal for all countries bordering with Russia or having strong historical ties with it. Georgia is another good example of this - in 2008 it lost 1/5th of the territory to Russia in a matter of weeks. Imagine you had invested in it? This is also the reason why Georgia is a very bad idea right now. At this moment it is safe, since it has a largely pro-russian president and government elected after Saakashvili, which does what Russia asks of it in its international policies. But when the people elect strong pro-georgian or pro-western leader - who knows what will happen.
It was similar in Ukraine before 2008 - it had weak political regime, uninspiring leaders, largely dependent economically (natural gas) and politically on Russia. And only when Ukraine wanted to have its own say in its international policy - the Russia didn't like it, they annexed Crimea, started a hybrid war on Donbass and waged it until recently, when they decided that it is time to go to full-scale invasion.
The only way to avoid this risks is to either forget about all post-soviet countries as a destination of your investments and business efforts or to support the global efforts of putting a high price on waging expansionist wars in 21st century.
What is happen with due diligence? Why not use it before you jump into? Why not to spend time there and talk to people? South Osetia just wanna be separated from Georgia cause they are NOT Georgians, they are Osetians, different culture language etc.
Wealthy Russians, Georgians, Armenians and Eastern Europeans are investing in Dubai's McMansions, ultra-premium real estate market. I've never seen that many Europeans in Dubai as I have in 2022.
Its also happening in the west. Jersey just seized $7 billion from Roman Abramovich. His crime? Being born in Russia. No due process, no trial, just stolen. Not even accused of a crime. Same is happening with Yachts, Real Estate, etc. People who have been living in Western Europe for decades are having their property seized with absolutely zero due process at the behest of politicians. Finland even attempted to steal like $140 million worth of Russian art on loan from a Museum before they got a ton of backlash and released it.
You'd be
Like Johnny fd
In Poland and lost all his investments
For a 100k apartment in Ukraine to be 1% of one's portfolio you would need a 10 million dollar portfolio. In that case sure the hit wouldn't be horrible. I'm just glad I delayed my decision and didn't buy in Ukraine before the war. When the war ends and if Ukraine maintains its sovereignty there maybe buying opportunities if all the cities aren't destroyed by then. The 10 year "permanent" residency should be improved to lifetime otherwise it isn't very attractive to me
@@MuzzaHukka I expect to live longer than 10 years and don't want to own property in a country I don't have guaranteed residency in or have to renew residency in as rules can change.
@@MuzzaHukka Thank you for clarifying the permanent residency permanency. I didn't know that it was just the card you needed to replace after 10 years. Definitely this makes it more feasible. As far as the investment issue goes, yea i know you don't have to live in the property you own but i was hoping to actually live in Ukraine. I've been a landlord before for over 10 years and not really sure i want to go that route again especially as a long distance landlord.
@@MuzzaHukka originally it was to live in a different culture, practice the language in the country where its spoken and to live where my girlfriend lived.
dude war started 2014 not 2022.
I went all in on Mariupol. Darn.
That's when you appreciate the value of both the EU and NATO. Unfortunately, like Georgia, Ukraine is in neither the EU nor in NATO. Security guarantee is eventually more relevant as variable than low taxes.
Same thing with Russia - how is that going to shake out? Stocks are frozen.
Serbia is heating up! The Chinese just sent a shipment of weapons to the Serbs and England is arming Albania. There is also a lot of hostile rhetoric coming out of Serbia, Bosnia and Albania
For residence or citizenship purpose, Ukraine is golden mine regardless your financial status. If you have some residence permit in Ukraine, you are qualified refugee status in EU. You can find some country to work through the system to get EU citizenship. It is much cheaper than any golden visa program .
Time spent on the temporary protection visa does not contribute to any value towards citizenship or permanent residency in any EU country
@@milanhrvat in general, it is true. But there are many EU country, I think you can find country which modifies rules. For example, EU rule is that only permanent resident of Ukraine qualified tem protect status. But in practice, you only show that you have some legal status in Ukraine. Is enough.
I know 1 Australian got his temporary protection in Germany and a New Zealander got his in Spain. They even get payments from those governments. These guys are temporary residents of Ukraine. I lived in Ukraine too as a temporary resident but I'm from EU so didn't need protection.
Such a wally.
That’s false. Only Ukrainian citizens are getting refugee status in the UE. Unfortunately, Ukrainians residents are not getting refugee status, it’s been an issue because that has affected many African students.
Could you do a video on where you can go and not be jabbed, assaulted, quarantined or tested. That’s priority one for me. Go where your treated best excellent.
México a top choice on that front - no entry requirements at any point during the pandemic, great personal freedom.
What if people bought homes in Portland, San Fran, LA, Minneapolis, New York … those investments are a loss as well. War is one risk, but insane political parties and prosecutors that don’t enforce jail time … just as bad
You can say that all you want but the real estate figures don’t reflect it.
Yep, I doubt you would've lost. In fact, you'd have hefty gains if you invested in those. Cost of life / crime rate wise, that's a different story.
There is risk anywhere. People asking this question obviously live in lala land.
I just don't understand how you can have apartments everywhere and not have your returns get cannibalized by real estate management fees.
How can I trust someone in India, Uzbekistan, and Cambodia to look after my respective properties and manage all of that. I feel as though if I take my eye off the ball for a second, someone is going to take me for a ride.
Spamsational: Exactly, I owned a condo in the mountains of Switzerland that was being rented out by a management agency. They never seem to get any clients for it. I decided that I may as well go skiing myself so rang them up to tell them I would be using my condo. They then informed me that they had a booking for it that week. They had basically been renting it, paying for the laundry and cleaner and keeping all the rent pretending it wasn't rented out. And that is the honest Swiss, so can you imagine these corrupt countries.
@@johntheaccountant5594 Wow. That would be infuriating and would keep me just invested in my stock market. I can't believe Swiss people would do that.
I'm sure investors get rinsed in developing countries all the time. I'd need trusted contacts and a network before I ever tip a toe in those muddy waters.
Have property prices gone down in Ukraine? Most of the major cities in Ukraine like Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa, Dnipro, Lviv, Chernihiv, Sumy etc have been attacked with missiles at some point during this war with Russia. One would expect property prices to fall, but I am not sure if they have/will.
Property prices in Lviv skyrocketed. I have bought 2 apartments in August (I'm Ukrainian). The rent is very high, and the demand is even higher. I'm "risking" now because I can see this situation from the inside.
Hey man, ask CZcamsr Johnny FD!!. He went all in buying apartments in Kyiv and Kharkiv. Now he is wandering around EU.
All the European and western and east Indian software development companies in Ukraine locations are tits up
The property in Crimea is still there? How do you know? Could have been bombed like in any other part of Ukraine. Even after the ending of the war it could well be that foreigners get ripped off their property, if it wasn't bombed, or even not. Everything can happen. The final outcome is very uncertain. In such situations any solid company/investor has to write the whole thing off. And a private investor is tied and can't do anything but wait and see. That answers your question "What if I had invested in Ukraine".
If you are a serious property investor. Diversity world wide is not the right way of doing it. There is the right way of doing it and there is the wrong way. Spreading out all over the world and having a house here and an apartment there is the wrong way to do it. Even in the stock market diversification is not really a strategy that works the best. But in the stock market it is the safest. But in real estate it definitely is not the safest or a way to build wealth by investing in property all over the world.
Why, can you elaborate please
Johnny FD has two apartments there
His Kharkiv one is probably rubble now. His Kiev apartment will be fine!
Talking about common sense. Check out Mariupol drone footages dating this or last week. I don’t think Ukraine is a cleaver diversification strategy. A charity case at best
It's tragic for sure, but Mariupol will remain strategic. Once Mariupol steel production is linked back with Donbass coal production, it will become an economic powerhouse and provide raw materials for China's Belt and Road initiative.
I think even if Ukraine had been/is taken over by Russia, you can probably still sell it or even visit it.
Ukrainian banks have frozen accounts of Belarussian and Russian citizens. Their properties got taken away as well. I don't know about diversifying in many countries. I have two properties in two countries and it's a lot of headache to keep and manage.
@@MuzzaHukka in some countries it’s dangerous, because the law doesn’t work.
@@MuzzaHukka The problem in a foreign country is to find people that you can trust. You can easily be taken advantage.
Cheap real estate sale in Ukraine now
I know someone who actually bought an apartment in Kharkiv that is about to be taken over by Russia and i doubt a UK Citizen who only has a temporary resident permit , will be allowed to stay moreover, his €50 000 apartment will be taken and he will be lucky to get a third of what he paid for it !
Maybe wait, who knows the outcome in a few years! Russia may not stay, or it may get nuked, but the patient might be rewarded.
@Pat Risberg Yes, but the rewards might go to the gambler who bets on Russia retiring after a couple of years. We just don't know! But the big money is always made in uncertainty. I bought in US 2009, made 200% on the best bet.
@Pat Risberg ....you are clearly a student of AH and your business model is quite logical moreover, i hear on the Net that Crimea is doing far better as a part of Russia and, as their population is more than 75% Russian , they are happier where they are now and i expect more parts of Ukraine will also be leaving Ukraine to either merge in to Russia or to become independent Russian speaking States .
Borders are always in a state of change somewhere , this is why i will never give my allegiance ( the flag waiving type ) to any Legal Entity or man made Jurisdiction as Nation's are all fake creations that eventually fall apart and fail.
Thanks for your reply and all the best to you & yours .
Regards.......Abe ( UK.....fragmenting Kingdom )
@Pat Risberg lol! Russian trolls shilling for Russia from some weird military finance angle!
@@anti-emo4721 apparently everyone who has a different opinion to the current agenda nowadays is a Russian troll
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At the moment, only Grenada I believe.
@@chipyoung4396 what about commonwealth of dominica 🇩🇲 🤔??
Going to be huge bargains in the coming years….
There is a youtube vlogger, fairly well watched, that closed on a couple apts right before the invasion, and since has left. I cannot believe I am saying the word invasion in 2022. Surreal.
That is Johnny FD.
This shortened intro is simply awful! Keep up with the good content as usual!
basically a write-off!
One of the problems for investors in Ukraine is that they don't allow dual citizenship, only permanent residency.
yeah, de jure. but de facto they tolerate it.
I think you should move to south Africa...
What about 3 figure income? Lol due to high taxes and cost of business in Canada and USA?
You should reach out to Johnny FD he had bought & remodeled two homes in Ukraine 🇺🇦 he is here on CZcams
Why would you? Anything you would have invested in has been available and listed in the right jurisdictions. And given Russia had made its intentions felt as early as 2014, you were at least 2 years out of date. You’re not particularly au courant, are you?
Almost bought some property in Ukraine in January
Property prices in Lviv skyrocketed. I have bought 2 apartments in August (I'm Ukrainian). The rent is very high, and the demand is even higher. I'm "risking" now because I can see this situation from the inside.
The situation in Ukraine certainly highlights the risks of investing in these less stable and emerging economies - especially ones bordering Russia where the US is always looking for regime change. Kazakhstan looked interesting, then last year the attempted coup was a reminder of the risks.
Companies like Dun&Bradstreet have scores for business and 10-15 years ago when I checked with them Ukraine was one of the worst countries to do business with, the recommendation was to allways demand pay upfront before sending anything over there, it had one of the lowest country credit scores in the whole world at that point, so I was out at that point.
Sadly I worked with an ex Chilean that guy bought an huge villa by the sea at Crimea 10 years ago that couldn't stop bragging about how cheap he got that property and how extremly beautiful it was in Crimea, I wonder what happened to him and that property right now when he can't go over there an Sweden has sent a lot of weapons to Ukraine, maybe Russia takes his property.
US is always looking for regime change? My GOSH you are DENSE!!! How can you be this DENSE???? HOW???
By the Way AH.....Ukraine does not allow duel nationality . If you want to keep your other Citizenships , the best you could have would be a permanent resident permit however, this is past now and i doubt Ukraine will keep half of its land now !
The USA and EU are to blame. This is a war that should never ever have been allowed to happen. Regime change and geo politics, using Ukraine a piece on a chess board. Who suffered? The poor Ukrainian people!
lol, revisit your doubts.
@@MykolaTarchanyn ....same to you boo who !
You doubt Ukraine would keep half of its lands. What military achievements of the russian military brought you to this conclusion?
Don't think Ukraine allows for dual citizenship
Ukraine will come back! But if you have invested in Russia, your money is gone! Also, some countries Andrew is hyping up, like Serbia, Turkey might not be a good place to be right now!
From what I can tell, Russia has not nationalized Westerners investments (yet). And the Ruble is back to what it was before. So we'll see.
@@CashCatz Dude! They are gonna default!
Russia a trillion times better than Ukraine. Ukraine won’t be a country again!
@@anti-emo4721 Western institutions should never get their money back. They are are same ones who have been raping weak economies/ countries.
@@anti-emo4721 Not by choice. They are sanctioned from SWIFT & their foreign reserves were confiscated ~ they literarily can't pay even if they have the funds and wanted to (both of which they have/want).
And read up on the commodities markets. Russia has stuff the rest of the world needs (natural gas, oil, aluminum, fertilizer, wheat, etc). Countries are and will find ways to buy from them (and already are setting up alternatives to SWIFT and Visa/Master card).
That said, probably not the best place to invest at this time until this conflict is resolved ;)
Invest now the prices are cheap now. The wars gonna stop lets say another 10 years it will start developing
no
@@markm4195 why not
@@benchoflemons398 Not Ukraine - they are not able to create a functioning country; their objective is to steal and run away.
@@satpreetsingh6819 They cant establish a country - the mindset is to steal and runaway.
I almost did😒
You = 👨🏻. Your investment = 💰💲. Your investment in Ukraine = ✈ 💣 💥.
Are you born-again ??
Investing in Eastern Ukraine could be good in the future; maybe a doorway to Russian citizenship.
There will be a lot of single blonde blue-eyed Ukranian women available but wives are not assets, they are generally contingent liabilities.
lmaooo
LOL
With that kind of mindset, Russia is the best place for you, no doubt!
@@benchoflemons398 well we just have to wait and see what happens
@@benchoflemons398 that's what it's looking like if you actually believe the narrative MSM is selling...
Now is the time to buy in Ukraine. There's literal blood in the streets.
Yech, pretty distasteful man
@@nathanfranck5822 I can't decide what the world is doing, but I can decide what to do with my $. I lived in Buenos Aires 1 year after their crash and it was one of the bigger financial mistakes I've ever made to not work on real estate in that moment. 3 years later people had been getting roi on Apts in less than a year. If you had bought in the really bad moments you could have bought million dollar properties for 20k right in the center of the city. Estancias in the mountains for 100k which are now million dollars estates. This is also not my idea. The time to buy is when there's blood in the streets.. in my experience this is absolutely correct.
@@nathanfranck5822 let's also put this in perspective. Do you really think you're going to be doing the people of ukraine wrong by buying their property and giving them money to start another life somewhere else.. you couldn't buy their property cheap unless they really wanted that option
Imagine the post war boom and Ukrainians shaking off the shackles of corruption after having learned the hard way. I would love to invest there now, but I just don't know how.
Why is this 14 min I can never understand especially seeing that he's clearly not offering financial advice.
TLDR: investing overseas have risk like anywhere else, but one must be cautious because people from developed nations may be underestimating risk that are traditionally very low to none in the west that are more of an issue in developing nations. War is not an issue in most developed nations like UK, USA, Canada... but is a considerable risk in places like Ukraine, Moldova, Serbia, etc. Some developing nations may have other risk that the west mostly don't worry about such as the rule of law and private ownership rights due to stuff like change of government, nationalistic sentiment, etc.
However risk also comes with opportunities if you know how to manage the risk on those countries. For example, many investment options for developing nations are far cheaper than western counterparts and depending on how dynamic their economy is... the investment return may be higher.
Imo, I think this is a horrible sell. For people that he seeks as clients that are high-net worth, my understanding is that they don't like making high risk but rather prefer less risk and more predictability and use their vast capital and/or leverage to increase the volume and bring up the return. This could be stock market mindset, and may act a little differently in developing nations but other things to consider is how good the lending is and what the interest/condition are as that's how "most" rich people make bank.
He's obviously pitching this idea because his bread & butter and even relevance is based on people moving overseas and spending $$. I donno how his capital is invested and his cash flow structured, but just beware.
Yellow teeth, and having a portfolio? :/