Investing Archive

A real estate investment group can be the best – or worst – move you ever make. Getting involved with the right group can open you investing horizons to dazzling profits. Getting into the wrong …

Morocco easily ticks all the boxes as an undiscovered place for a vacation rental home. With flights from the UK being less than three hours’ duration and around six hours from the east coast of …

With home foreclosures at an all-time high, there’s no shortage of great opportunities for buyers and real estate investors. Buying foreclosure homes can be a great way to save money, and invest for future. But …

When thinking about Mutual Funds, one of the first companies that comes to mind for me is Vanguard. Vanguard has a reputation as being one of the best mutual fund companies in the business, and …

How much investment risk are you willing to tolerate? Your investment goals, your personality and especially your emotional makeup determine your tolerance for risk. You can’t change the basic relationship between risk and reward, but …

Basically, the costs of owning a fund are called the expense ratio. The expense ratio represents the percentage of the fund’s assets that go directly toward the expense of running the fund. The expense ratio …

A natural monopoly is a common term that is used in public sector economics. A monopoly is defined as a single exclusive seller in a specific market. Economics Online defines a natural monopoly as a …

Brokers and bankers spend billions annually trying to figure out what makes the stock market fluctuate down to the smallest penny. Individual investors, on the other hand, only need to understand what makes the stock …

                                       Day Trading Do’s and Don’ts Day trading profitably over a series of years is probably the most difficult vocation anyone can attempt. The odds of being a consistently profitable day trader are enormously against …

Guide to the Stock Market: The Basics. The stock market is the place you go to buy and sell stocks, except you don’t actually go there to do it. The only way to buy and …

Football season is just kicking off, and admit it, football is unlike any other sport. Fans are fanatical, crowds are bigger, and everybody has a favorite team. And for all investors out there, no sport …

“Bakeries and restaurants”, @kiavoni types on Twitter, “are investing wins. People always eat, recession or not.” Popular wisdom, we may ponder. But one of the sector’s prominent former executives happens to agree: introducing Marcus Jundt. …

With General Motors (GM) in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings speculation is running high on how the new ownership structure will affect the company. There’s no question that government ownership of a private sector company is …

Investing in the stock market is simple yet not easy. It is simple in a sense that it is learned and practiced, yet at the same time it is not easy because there are a …

The good news is that you do not have to choose between the two. You are allowed to have both an Individual Retirement Account (IRA) and a 401(k), 403(b), or other employer offered retirement plan. …

For those who have heard the term “mutual fund” but, like many others, do not understand what they are, the following answers to ten of the most frequently asked questions about these funds may provide …

Morocco easily ticks all the boxes as an undiscovered place for a vacation rental home. With flights from the UK being less than three hours’ duration and around six hours from the east coast of …

CommVault Systems Inc.(CVLT) is a data management company. It develops and distributes Simpana® software and other systems for data protection, information governance, and discovery. In effect, it provides insurance to customers against losing stored data. …

Currency investments can be lucrative! The latest speculation to hit the market of the get rich quick schemes and geared towards unsuspecting consumers is to purchase the Iraqi Dinar. The dinar was first introduced in …

Both stocks and bonds are part of a corporation’s balance sheet. A bond is a loan to a company, and a stock is an equity in the company. So, if you buy stock, you own …

Mutual Funds: Investing the Easy Way Deciding which type of mutual fund is not an easy task. Learning how to choose the right mutual fund can be very easy if you know what to do. …

There is a large variety of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), many of them very similar to mutual funds. If you’re going to initially buy just one fund, you need to be very clear about your …

Autozone (AZO) keeps people moving by selling parts to repair and maintain cars and trucks. Operating through a network of over 4,800 stores in the continental US, Puerto Rico and Mexico, this Memphis, TN-based company …

GoldMoney has just announced the introduction of a new storage facility in Zurich, Switzerland. Any GoldMoney client buying or selling goldgrams, now has the option of storing their precious metal in either London or Zurich. …

To win in the stock market you have to take a risk sometimes, which is the case for Big Oil. I have invested in BP and Shell and if anybody has noticed there dividends have …

When an individual asks the question, what is this stock worth, he/she is often asking the equivalent question, how would a stock broker value this stock, and is it worth the price its trading at? …

What is an investment style? No two investors are exactly alike. Each approaches investing with different emotions, resources and goals. Figuring out and understanding your investment style before you begin investing can avoid costly detours …

Junk bonds or speculative bonds are common term used for bonds that are rated below investment grade by the three major investment rating companies: Standard & Poor’s,Moody’s,and Fitch. Each company employs its own methods and …

So what do your Investment Manager and your neighborhood bartender have in common, other than the probability that you spend more time with the latter during market corrections? Antoine Tedesco, in his “The History of …

Certificates of Deposits CD’s are vehicles which allow you to save money for a specific period of time. Normally the period ranges from 30 days to 60 months and during that time you cannot withdraw …