Sovereign Group is a

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-based corporate services company established in 1987. Sovereign's core business is setting up and managing tax-efficient structures to assist wealth management, foreign property ownership and cross-border business. The Sovereign Group has offices or agents in most major offshore and onshore

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s worldwide. The company mostly provides

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services to

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s and their families, Sovereign's clients include

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s and businesses of all sizes. Sovereign also offers a wide range of services that are natural adjuncts to their main activity, including

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asset management Asset management is a systematic approach to the governance and realization of value from the things that a group or entity is responsible for, over their whole life cycles. It may apply both to tangible assets (physical objects such as buildings ...

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, specialist

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advice and

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s. Howard Bilton, a tax

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, is the

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of the Sovereign Group. Bilton was responsible for setting up the Sovereign Art Foundation which runs both the ''Sovereign Asian and European Art Prize'', turning his art-collecting hobby into what is now Asia's largest art prize.

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