Gonthier Group SA - Your Partner for Swiss Annuities and Retirement Solutions™

Welcome to Gonthier Group’s official website. Here, you will find the complete ins and outs of Swiss annuities. Swiss annuities are very flexible financial vehicles. They can be as simple as a life income in Swiss francs or as complex as personal holding structures. All contain very important asset protection features.

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Why Investors Are Choosing Swiss Annuities


Retirement Solutions
You will learn how to create a guaranteed life income in Swiss francs. Historically, when converted to dollars, an income in Swiss francs had more than offset inflation’s erosion of the dollar’s purchasing power.




Swiss Franc Capital Accumulation
Here, we present the best long-term way to accumulate and save Swiss francs. Your funds are available to you at any time. You have the option of converting all or a portion of your account value into a guaranteed life income.




Personal Holding Structures
You will learn about an innovative way to create a personal holding structure where you determine the assets held.  These holding structures, called Strategic Annuities ™, are an attractive alternative to off-shore trusts. Your funds are always available to you.


Swiss Gold Annuity™
With Swiss Gold Annuities™, you can finally invest in gold. Gold is the unsurpassed store of value, and owning it is an excellent way to hedge oneself from inflation. With Gonthier Group, you gain an exclusive opportunity to hold gold in a Swiss annuity. Click here to download our SWISS GOLD ANNUITY™ fact sheet.




Why We Are Your Partner for Swiss Annuities and Retirement Solutions™

 

Located in Montreux, Switzerland, GONTHIER GROUP SA is a group of international annuity and insurance brokers. Our aim is to provide you with the vital information you need about Swiss annuities and other products, the superior service you expect and the skilled guidance to get you to your ultimate goal of financial security.

We invite you to join our family of clients whom GONTHIER GROUP SA has been able to help guide to the essential information they needed in order to make educated decisions regarding the security of their assets. We understand the importance of asking questions, gaining knowledge and developing trust.

GONTHIER GROUP SA will work with you in developing the financial structures that best suit your needs and will enable you to profit from informed investment diversification. Using the products of the Swiss insurance industry, we will show you how you can safeguard your wealth now and for future generations. GONTHIER GROUP SA is your partner for Swiss annuities and retirement solutions, a valuable source to guide you through the questions, concerns, advantages and benefits of investing in Swiss insurance, annuities and currency. Ultimately, it is you who will be making the decisions regarding your investments, and we will be there for you every step of the way.

An Introduction to Swiss Annuities – What is a Swiss Annuity?

 

The term “annuity” is derived from Latin and literally means “as of or pertaining to something annual”. In the context of investing, “annual” refers to an agreement between you and a third party to arrange for annual disbursements of funds in exchange for an up-front payment. In other words, an annuity is a form of investment that provides a series of future payments in exchange for the money spent on it.

Annuities are primarily sold by insurance companies, and several types of annuities exist. Every annuity has two noteworthy characteristics: whether the disbursements of funds are deferred or immediate, and whether the returns on your investment are fixed or variable. An annuity with an immediate payout structure begins disbursing your funds to you right after you purchase it, while deferred annuities make payments to you on a pre-determined time schedule starting at a future date. Fixed return annuities are similar to very low-risk securities, offering a guaranteed return on your investment. Annuities with variable returns vary in their payouts, their performance depending on the performance of portfolios where the money is invested.

Swiss annuities are just that – annuities that are a product of the Swiss insurance industry. They are usually denominated in Swiss francs, which provide inflation protection and a shield from government instability. Switzerland means safety, and when you invest in a Swiss annuity, you don’t only get protection from inflation, but also superior protection from creditors and bureaucrats. No Swiss insurance company has ever gone bankrupt.

In addition to Swiss annuities being safe investments, they offer a variety of features that make them into very sound investments. Swiss annuities offer much economic and legal stability that can enable one to diversify an investment portfolio, secure retirement income, perform an IRA rollover and benefit from asset protection. For Americans, 1035 Exchanges are possible.

If you wish to diversify internationally, invest in the insurance industry while maintaining high liquidity, protect your assets, or use Swiss annuities as a tax-deferred investment and build your own insurance plan, you should consider finding more information on Swiss annuities.

The premier source of Swiss annuities information being, of course, Gonthier Group SA, a good impartial source of Swiss annuity information is the Swiss Annuity Consumer Bureau. The organization publishes a brochure, titled “The Consumer’s Guide to Swiss Annuities”, which is a small handbook on Swiss annuities that can provide one with basic education on the subject.

We invite you to browse our website and find out how you can benefit from Swiss annuities and other retirement solutions.

THREE DIVERSIFICATIONS
Over the years, GONTHIER GROUP SA has learned from our most sophisticated clients that they are interested in three primary portfolio diversifications: asset class, jurisdictional and currency. We have distilled their wisdom into a downloadable brochure above.


INTERNATIONAL INVESTOR
How the international investor looks at Switzerland is the subject of this 22-page downloadable brochure. The International Investor and Switzerland takes over where the Three Diversifications brochure ends.



For a comparison of Swiss franc’s performance relative to other currencies, click here.

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As with any financial decision, we at GONTHIER GROUP SA
recommend that you seek the advice and counsel of your tax and legal advisors.


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