In front of 10,000+ cross-border business owners and investors.
The Global Business Index 2026 ranks where to base a company, and often where to live, from official sources. Partners sit beside the index in 25 country dossiers and on the site. They never touch the scores.
A ranking people use to make a decision
Most country rankings answer one question, such as tax or passport strength. The Global Business Index answers the one our clients actually ask: where should this company be based, and could I live there? We score 25 jurisdictions on seven pillars, each from official sources, with the method published.
- Tax
- The rates a company and its owner actually pay.
- Speed of set-up
- How long it takes to form a company.
- Simplicity
- How much local presence and ongoing filing the company needs.
- Confidentiality
- What is public and what stays private.
- Residence
- How owners and their families can live there.
- Lifestyle
- Safety, the cost of living and the depth of the city around you.
- Connectivity
- How many places you can fly to nonstop.
People with a decision to make, and the budget to act on it
- Business owners expanding into a second or third country.
- Family offices setting up holding and investment structures.
- Deal sponsors and their advisers choosing a home for a new vehicle.
- Finance leaders moving a group's operations or treasury.
- Families relocating, who need banking, schools, health cover and somewhere to live.
These are the people who next need a private bank, a lawyer, health insurance, a school place, a relocation firm or a flight. A partner in the index is in front of them while they are choosing.
How the index reaches its readers
Every partner is part of the digital campaign, at no extra cost
Whatever you book, your brand travels with the dossiers it appears in: in the edition email, in the LinkedIn post for each of those countries, and in the digital dossier itself, where your page links straight to your site. Category Partners are also named in the edition email and the press release. Digital is part of every package and is never charged separately.
Few placements, clearly labelled
In each of the 25 dossiers
Inside front and back covers. Two further full pages and four half pages. A “Useful partners” directory of eight categories. Two featured stories, each marked “In partnership with”. No more than eight advertising positions in a dossier of about 30 pages.
On index.cosmos.global
The category partners strip on the home page, one partner per category. A partner slot on each of the 25 country pages. Featured listings on country pages, always marked “Featured”.
Four ways to work with us
Category Partner
One per category. 8 available.Your category, and only yours, across the site and all 25 dossiers for 12 months. The directory tile in every dossier, the home-page category strip, the partner slot on every country page, a full page in three dossiers of your choice, one featured story, and a named mention in the edition email and press release.
From $35,000Country Partner
The inside front cover of one country's dossier, a featured story in it, and the partner slot on that country's page, for 12 months.
From $5,000Featured story
Two pages in a dossier, written by our editorial desk and marked “In partnership with”. Also published on that country's page for 12 months.
From $6,000Placements and listings
Full and half pages in individual dossiers, the same page across all 25, or a featured listing on a country page, each for 12 months.
Half page from $1,500You buy space. You never buy a score.
- Scores come from the published method, plus a disclosed editor’s view of at most 5 points either way. Partners pay for space, never for scores, ranks, matcher results or editorial.
- Partners do not see scores or rankings before they are published.
- Every paid placement is labelled. Featured stories say “In partnership with”; listings say “Featured” or “Partner”.
- Featured stories are written by our desk. You check the facts about your firm; you do not edit our view of a country.
- Paid listings never appear inside the matcher results or the ranking tables.
- We do not accept payment from governments, free zones or investment agencies for placement in a ranking of jurisdictions.
- We can decline any partner whose licences or claims we cannot verify.
Reporting you can check
- Within 30 days of each edition
- Emails delivered, unique opens and clicks, dossier downloads by country, page views and matcher completions.
- Every quarter after that
- Views and clicks on each of your placements, through tracked links.
- Clicks beside opens
- Because email privacy features inflate open figures, we always report clicks as well.
- Leads only with consent
- We pass on an enquiry only when a reader has ticked a box naming your firm. We never share or sell our database.
Before you enquire
No. Scores come from official sources through a published method. Partners pay for labelled space and never see scores before publication.
Each edition is sent to 10,000+ cross-border business owners and investors in the Cosmos network, and the dossiers and country pages are read year round. Every partner receives a report of emails delivered, dossier downloads and page views within 30 days of each edition and every quarter after.
As a Category Partner, no other firm in your category appears anywhere in the edition, on the site or in any of the 25 dossiers, for 12 months. The category is defined in your contract.
Our editorial desk, to the same standard as the rest of the dossier. You check the facts about your firm, and the story is marked “In partnership with” your firm.
Only for readers who tick a box naming your firm and agreeing to hear from you. We never share or sell our database.
Yes. Category Partners choose the three dossiers for their full pages and Country Partners choose their country. Placements are booked in the order agreements are signed.
Category Partner from $35,000, Country Partner from $5,000, featured story from $6,000 and half page from $1,500. Full rates are in the media kit, which we send with every reply.
Start a conversation
Tell us what you would like to do. We reply within two working days, with the media kit.