It's become a trend, although it has existed, the rich folks have a preference of purchasing assets with names other than theirs, they could use their companies, or even a third party brocker. One would argue it as a way to reduce tax payable, or not to increase the market value of their holding companies. What could be other reasons? Some times, buying assets and using a different name is not just to avoid or reduce tax payable as you said, it makes it hard for it to be traced especially when they are using that different company to launder money. It's a smart move by them to not only grow their wealth, it also saves them the public scrutiny and attention like paying taxes or debt situations. . The enlightened rich people maybe out of experience and the happening have studied the importance of sharing there asset's into different forms and names to put off the eye of government probing them after auditing there asset's and financial records. I have also noticed that with this method of using different names to buy assets makes it almost impossible to lay embargo on all there resources at once, some time when they are indebted. 
It's become a trend, although it has existed, the rich folks have a preference of purchasing assets with names other than theirs, they could use their companies, or even a third party brocker. One would argue it as a way to reduce tax payable, or not to increase the market value of their holding companies. What could be other reasons? Some times, buying assets and using a different name is not just to avoid or reduce tax payable as you said, it makes it hard for it to be traced especially when they are using that different company to launder money. It's a smart move by them to not only grow their wealth, it also saves them the public scrutiny and attention like paying taxes or debt situations. . The enlightened rich people maybe out of experience and the happening have studied the importance of sharing there asset's into different forms and names to put off the eye of government probing them after auditing there asset's and financial records. I have also noticed that with this method of using different names to buy assets makes it almost impossible to lay embargo on all there resources at once, some time when they are indebted. 

It's become a trend, although it has existed, the rich folks have a preference of purchasing assets with names other than theirs, they could use their companies, or even a third party brocker. One would argue it as a way to reduce tax payable, or not to increase the market value of their holding companies. What could be other reasons? Some times, buying assets and using a different name is not just to avoid or reduce tax payable as you said, it makes it hard for it to be traced especially when they are using that different company to launder money. It's a smart move by them to not only grow their wealth, it also saves them the public scrutiny and attention like paying taxes or debt situations. . The enlightened rich people maybe out of experience and the happening have studied the importance of sharing there asset's into different forms and names to put off the eye of government probing them after auditing there asset's and financial records. I have also noticed that with this method of using different names to buy assets makes it almost impossible to lay embargo on all there resources at once, some time when they are indebted. 

It's become a trend, although it has existed, the rich folks have a preference of purchasing assets with names other than theirs, they could use their companies, or even a third party brocker. One would argue it as a way to reduce tax payable, or not to increase the market value of their holding companies. What could be other reasons? Some times, buying assets and using a different name is not just to avoid or reduce tax payable as you said, it makes it hard for it to be traced especially when they are using that different company to launder money. It's a smart move by them to not only grow their wealth, it also saves them the public scrutiny and attention like paying taxes or debt situations. . The enlightened rich people maybe out of experience and the happening have studied the importance of sharing there asset's into different forms and names to put off the eye of government probing them after auditing there asset's and financial records. I have also noticed that with this method of using different names to buy assets makes it almost impossible to lay embargo on all there resources at once, some time when they are indebted.