About this episode
Ed Pankau shares professional techniques for asset protection and financial privacy while discussing detective work involved in locating hidden wealth and exposing financial deception. His expertise in skip tracing and asset investigation reveals methods people use to hide money and property while demonstrating how professionals can penetrate such concealment for legal and investigative purposes. Pankau discusses strategies for legitimate asset protection that allow people to safeguard wealth from frivolous lawsuits and aggressive creditors while remaining within legal boundaries. The conversation covers investigative techniques for finding hidden assets, from real estate held through shell corporations to offshore accounts and complex financial structures designed to obscure ownership. He examines the cat-and-mouse game between asset protection and asset discovery, explaining how investigators counter concealment tactics through creative research and understanding of financial structures. Pankau addresses the legal and ethical considerations in both hiding and finding assets while exploring how privacy and transparency must be balanced in financial matters. His presentation reveals sophisticated methods for achieving financial privacy while demonstrating that determined investigation can usually penetrate concealment given sufficient resources and legal authority. The discussion provides practical guidance for legitimate asset protection while exposing the techniques used by investigators to find hidden wealth in divorce, fraud, and judgment collection cases.