Strategies to protect your portfolio against inflation in 2010
Wed Feb 3, 2010 | | Posted in Finances Invest
Many experts suggest to not worry about inflation in the near future. But because certain events have recently taken place, there might be a chance of inflation creeping up in your financial life. The reason some experts give is two fold: 1) The rapid growth of the money supply from the U.S. Government into the … Continue Reading »
4 Strategic steps to get back on your financial track for 2010
Fri Jan 29, 2010 | | Posted in Finances Invest
If you have not made a new-year resolution for 2010 concerning your personal finances, either you are very rich with your personal financial advisers or you are just getting by from paycheck to paycheck and you have no desire or saving to worry about something like investing. I agree with folks in both categories. However, … Continue Reading »
How you could make $20 Billion in previous two years
Mon Nov 16, 2009 | | Posted in Finances Invest
Over at http://online.wsj.com, Gregory Zuckerman has an article titled “‘Greatest Trade’: How You Can Make $20 Billion”. Even as the financial system collapsed last year, and millions of investors lost billions of dollars, one unlikely investor was racking up historic profits: John Paulson, a hedge-fund manager in New York. His firm made $20 billion between … Continue Reading »
Gold has gone where no precious metal has ever gone before
Tue Nov 10, 2009 | | Posted in Finances Invest
The price of gold briefly surpassed $1,100 an ounce on Friday, a record high – a new frontier for the yellow metal. That means it has gone where no precious metal has ever gone before. Gold is the king of the precious-metal jungle. It’s the lion of its own domain. [I wish I could say … Continue Reading »
Tips and resources for investing over the long term
Mon Oct 26, 2009 | | Posted in Finances Invest
In these hard times, if you want to invest your hard-earned money, you better start educating yourself about the subject. You must be willing to put in some reading and understanding time, so that you are ready to invest perhaps in stocks, bonds, real estate. You must understand the market and how to put together … Continue Reading »
With fear of inflation, TIPS are in abundance
Wed Sep 30, 2009 | | Posted in Finances Invest
In finance, the fear of inflation makes you change your investment strategies. One strategy can be to invest in exchange-traded funds – ETF – holding Treasury inflation-protected securities commonly know as TIPS. They are basically government-issued bonds. So far this year, investors have poured in more than $17 billion into funds that invest in TIPS. … Continue Reading »
What are Splits and Buybacks – an explanation
Tue Sep 15, 2009 | | Posted in Finances Invest
A while back, I read online about a company’s stock being split and another had announced buybacks of its shares. Some financial experts had commented on that news without realizing to explain what these two terms actually mean. So I did some research and here is the description in simple terms what they mean. Stock … Continue Reading »
Designate a beneficiary for your investment accounts
Thu Sep 3, 2009 | | Posted in Finances Invest
Now that you have written out your will, and have appointed a power of attorney to act on your behalf, next task to perform is to designate a beneficiary for investment accounts. You can do so for all your different accounts such as: Retirement accounts such as IRAs, Roth IRAs, and SIMPLE IRAs Assets in … Continue Reading »
A Will can protect and preserve your assets
Tue Sep 1, 2009 | | Posted in Finances Invest
You can protect what you have – your assets – by naming beneficiaries, creating a will, and other estate-planning tasks. That means you would distribute it to the people and causes most important to you. A will is the most important tool to preserve your assets A will is one of the most important legal … Continue Reading »
Take time to study financial statements before investing
Tue Jul 14, 2009 | | Posted in Finances Invest
The objective of financial statements is to provide information about the financial position, performance and changes in financial position of an enterprise that is useful to a wide range of users in making economic decisions. In order to invest in a company, you should understand and be familiar with the various financial statements of the … Continue Reading »
