IM Yearbook 2023
The completely new IM Yearbook 2023 is the 5th edition of what is now known as the most anticipated guide of the Investment Migration industry. The IM Yearbook is the essential global reference tool for the industry by the industry. Offering unrivaled valuable access to a prime targeted readership of your partners, clients and potential new business сontacts. Decision-makers in more than 54 countries trust the publication as a reputable source of information and guide. Readership includes: agents, law firms, advisory firms, banks, wealth managers, service providers, policy makers, government staffers, international organisations, and academics. Providing comprehensive, in-depth information about the global Investment Migration industry, the IM Yearbook 2023 will offer readers a practical A-Z guide to the current business operating environment while also highlighting the depth and breadth of practitioners, programmes, and their partners of all types.
The completely new IM Yearbook 2023 is the 5th edition of what is now known as the most anticipated guide of the Investment Migration industry.
The IM Yearbook is the essential global reference tool for the industry by the industry. Offering unrivaled valuable access to a prime targeted readership of your partners, clients and potential new business сontacts. Decision-makers in more than 54 countries trust the publication as a reputable source of information and guide. Readership includes: agents, law firms, advisory firms, banks, wealth managers, service providers, policy makers, government staffers, international organisations, and academics.
Providing comprehensive, in-depth information about the global Investment Migration industry, the IM Yearbook 2023 will offer readers a practical A-Z guide to the current business operating environment while also highlighting the depth and breadth of practitioners, programmes, and their partners of all types.
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<strong>IM</strong> YEARBOOK<br />
From refugee past to EB-5 professional:<br />
One man’s perspective on<br />
MIGRATION<br />
At a time when Iran is rocked by the biggest wave of unrest and antiregime<br />
demonstrations it has seen in years, Abteen Vaziri recalls how he had<br />
fled the country more than three decades ago. Vaziri, who is today a key<br />
figure in the US EB-5 industry, says due to his refugee past he has a unique<br />
perspective on migration that many of his fellow practitioners lack.<br />
One evening in 1989, Abteen Vaziri’s mother<br />
told him that the family would flee Iran.<br />
He was nine years old and in the<br />
middle of school exams. He had studied<br />
a lot and didn’t want to leave his home<br />
in Tehran to not miss the test. But he<br />
didn’t have a choice, although he didn’t<br />
understand what was happening: “It was<br />
odd that while my parents feared for their<br />
lives, I worried about school,” he recalls.<br />
Today, Vaziri sits in an office in New<br />
York City. He is the Managing Director<br />
of Brevet Capital, an investment firm<br />
which has about $2billion of assets under<br />
management. In addition to overseeing<br />
the business operation, he manages one<br />
of Brevet’s five funds: the Brevet Capital<br />
Immigration Fund, an EB-5 compliant fund.<br />
Vaziri’s family first attempted to leave<br />
Iran in 1979 when the Islamic Revolution<br />
shook the world. The revolution turned<br />
Iranian society upside down and ended with<br />
the establishment of the world’s first Islamic<br />
state. Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the<br />
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