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Author :: Leon Altman  |
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| Article Title :: The Era of Disaster Recovery and Prevention . . . And What It
Means to Investors |
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The recovery from Katrina and Rita ushers in a new era of
Disaster Recovery and Prevention. Governments and people are
rethinking their response to disasters and the steps they can
take to prevent or minimize the worst consequences. The biggest
catalyst for this new era is the political fall-out from Katrina.
The slow response to Katrina was a black eye for the Bush
administration. For Michael Brown, the ex-head of FEMA, it was a
national humiliation. The fates of Louisiana governor Kathleen
Blanco and New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin remain to be seen, but
reports have pointed out their failures in prevention and
response, and that will come into play at election time.
President Bush wants to (read full article) |
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| Category :: Investing Articles |
Author :: CT Larsen |
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| Article Title :: Using Fundamental Analysis for Trading Stocks |
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Fundamental analysis, the study of profits, revenue, income,
assets, etc. etc. It was the mainstay of stock market investing
for decades and decades. Finding a diamond in the rough, was
what investors looked for, it is what mutual fund managers use
today as their main tool. It is what is done by hundreds, if not
thousands of brokerage houses, stock market investor services,
and mutual fund managers every day of their lives. Numbers
poured over, fed into software programs, then analyzed again. So
much so that there is not one single fundamental analysis
surprise left to be found in large cap stocks. That is so
fundamental to the success of our large cap philosophy
(www.livingonlargecaps.blog (read full article) |
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| Category :: Investing Articles |
Author :: Clare Omvig |
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| Article Title :: Now is the Time to BUY the Iraqi Dinar |
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A powerful new development has made purchasing Dinar (Iraq
Currency) top of the wise investor's list!
You need to take some time to read the powerful documentation
and credible speculation concerning the power and excitement of
the Iraqi Dinar market.
The Math makes it clear: Currently through FreeDinar.com you can
purchase Iraqi Dinar at less than 1/10th of a US Cent per Dinar.
Buy 100,000 Dinar for $100 today! Looking back at history it is
possible that the Dinar value could be as high at $0.20 to a US
Dollar. If that is the case a $100 in dinar could potentially
return $20,000!
If the value reached, over time, is the pre-Desert Storm value
of around $3.00 that same $100 could potenti (read full article) |
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| Category :: Investing Articles |
Author :: Glenn "Chip" Dahlke |
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| Article Title :: Using Standard Deviation and the Sharpe Ratio: Tools of the Pros |
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If you're choosing investments based on total returns over
specific time periods (i.e., 1yr, 3yrs, 5yrs, and 10yrs) without
assessing the risk, it's time to add another component to your
selection process.
Standard Deviation and the Sharpe Ratio are two basic tools that
are used by investment professionals for determining risk and,
with a little practice, you can be using them too.
Although standard deviation isn't limited to the area of
investments, it is a measurement of volatility that translates
into risk. High standard deviations denote a wide range of
investment returns and low deviations denote a narrow range of
returns.
A word of caution: standard deviation won't do you much good (read full article) |
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| Category :: Investing Articles |
Author :: Glenn "Chip" Dahlke |
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| Article Title :: Dogs of the Dow: A Nifty Strategy for Potentially Increasing
Yield in Your Living Trust |
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Increasing yield - while maintaining an appropriate allocation -
is often a difficult trick for trustees of living trusts. But
one tool you can pull out of your kit is the "Dogs of the Dow,"
a contrarian strategy designed to potentially increase yield and
growth.
First put forth by Michael O'Higgins in his 1991 book, "Beating
the Dow", the strategy itself is the model of simplicity. You
select the 10 Dow stocks with the highest dividend yield and one
year later rebalance to the new 10 with the highest yield.
The theory is that the DJIA is made up of high quality issues,
and the highest yielding securities among those high quality
issues are those that have increased dividend yield due to (read full article) |
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| Category :: Investing Articles |
Author :: John Appleseed |
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| Article Title :: Bank Foreclosures a Profitable Investment? |
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Bank Foreclosure Investing
Several people, especially those new to real estate investing,
will prefer bank foreclosure to any other form of property
buying because they think that they are safe properties to buy.
Their understanding is that the bank owns the property and
therefore they are free from all liabilities and other negative
encumbrances. Though a bank foreclosure can be safe, the bank
never owns the property. The property has only been pledged as
collateral, meaning in the event of default of loan payment, the
property should be disposed to redeem the loan.
Bank foreclosure property many not be cheap
Many people also believe that bank foreclosure is cheap, no
matt (read full article) |
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| Category :: Investing Articles |
Author :: Jay Moncliff |
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| Article Title :: Investing Stock Market ABC's |
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While most folks today trust mutual funds and their professional
managers with their investments, it's still important to
understand the basics of the stock market. Although investing in
individual stocks may not be right for everyone, a basic
understanding of the stock market is essential to understanding
the workings of our economy and business sector.
A stock is a portion of ownership in a company. Commonly
referred to as a share, it is a small percentage of the total
ownership pool for the corporation. Shareholders are stock
owners, or people who have an ownership interest in the
corporation. Today, shares are usually tracked electronically,
but in previous decades shareholders would a (read full article) |
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| Category :: Investing Articles |
Author :: Dr. Mark Skousen |
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| Article Title :: Rare Coins |
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"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect
savings from confiscation through inflation." ~Alan Greenspan,
1966 One of the things every investor quickly discovers is that
there are no sure deals or "can't lose" investments in this wild
and wooly world. There is always risk in the marketplace.
Always. The key to success is to weigh the pros and cons of
every investment, and determine the prospects of success. I
remember a time when we were told that old rare coins were a
"guaranteed" moneymaker. During the 1970s and 1980s, Salomon
Brothers published an investment index that showed that the
price of rare coins had never declined.
During this time, Harry Browne appeared (read full article) |
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| Category :: Investing Articles |
Author :: Teve Torbes |
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| Article Title :: Why Index Funds Are Your Best Investment Bet |
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When planning for retirement, many people will suggest that you
individually manage your funds, searching for the best specific
stocks. You'll often get tips from friends - buy this or that
company, invest in the next up and comer. The smartest strategy,
however, is to stick with a major index fund.
Index funds are mutual funds that are tied to a key stock index.
Usually, this means the Dow Jones index or the Standard and
Poor's 500. These are both safe bets - they average strong
returns, and they don't require any management. You don't have
to pick individual stocks - the money is put into a bundle of
stocks that represent the economy as a whole.
This achieves several important goals. F (read full article) |
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| Category :: Investing Articles |
Author :: Ioannis - Evangelos (Akis) C. Haramis |
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| Article Title :: Are You Afraid to Start Investing? |
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"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it
is because we do not dare that things are difficult!" Lucius
Annaeus Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
If you're just starting out as an investor, doesn't matter your
age, it's kind of scary!
You know you're supposed to do something with your money, but
what?
Where do you really start and what's considered safe?
First ... Relax!
Don't think you have to know everything today. It takes years to
understand investing, and no one fully knows exactly what's
happening all the time.
So you're not alone if you're feeling a little overwhelmed and
under-informed. Eventually you will make investment decisions
with as many facts as you can ass (read full article) |
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