Investing Archive

A stock portfolio of an investor is an important tool as it describes how diversified the investor’s stocks are at any given instance. Such portfolios will minimize the risks associated with it depending only on …

A Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT—pronounced like Reet, rhymes with Street) is a real estate corporation that pools investment capital from a large number of investors in a way that avoids corporate tax.  You buy …

Many leading economists believe that we are in for a slow, painful crawl out of recession however, do not panic, one can turn to commodities and profit from the upcoming inflation cycle. Commodities? The high-risk …

Mutual funds are investment products created to provide a variety of options that offer incentives for higher returns, providing a low to high risk, giving greater security because the money is not invested directly in …

With people living longer, the income saved from years of working won’t provide a person with enough income to last his or her retirement. It is necessary to invest in the stock market to achieve …

 A bond fund investment (Fixed – income securities 1)  include corporate, municipal, U.S. Treasury, mortgage securities (“Mortgage loans issued or guaranteed by government agencies such as the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae),  Federal Home …

Investing in the stock market as a route to wealth involves being aware of the techniques and strategies that lead to investing success. In order to understand and implement these stock market techniques usually requires …

United Parcel Service (UPS) is one of the world’s leading carriers.  They ship and deliver packages worldwide.  They are common to a majority of citizens and are a household name.  They compete amongst many other …

Housing bubbles. Mortgage crisis. Recession. The media reports doom and gloom as it paints the dismal picture of the current status of the real estate industry. Foreclosures are up, home sales are down, financing has …

One of the most commonly-transacted derivative financial instruments in the stock market are the stock options. Basically, stock options are preemptive rights to purchase a specified number of a company’s stock on an agreed future …

No-load mutual funds are funds sold by an investment company that does not charge a buying fee; opposite to that are loaded funds that have a buying fee added to the fund. When decoding the …

Derivatives are financial instruments that derive from so called underlying assets. A derivate can be related to, among others, a stock, a currency, a whole index, a commodity, a bond, and even other derivatives. Derivatives …

How to maximize your returns on the investments: The objective in personal finance is to maximize the risk adjusted return on capital employed. It involves 2 basic principles which are as below: 1. A safe …

The financial district in New York City is known as Wall Street. For many, the words ‘Wall Street’ rings bells of stock markets, money and images of men in suits and top hats in their …

Three Major Movers of Currencies Many know that a company’s earnings move a stock. So what moves a country’s currency? While there are many factors involved, let’s look at three of the most important things …

A real estate bubble is not unlike any other type of bubble namely a stock market bubble. The idea of a bubble is that what it is constructed on his unstable and ready to fall …

Are you looking for a guide for alternative real estate investments? Well, thankfully there are several channels in the real estate market. In the real estate field ownership is not limited to an individual or …

If you are investing in mutual funds at all, most likely it is in a managed mutual fund. There is a reason for this… all brokerage firms advertise the managed mutual funds more so than …

A currency peg refers to the practice of indexing one currency against another. This is a macroeconomic strategy that seeks to simplify international trade and reduce inflation of the pegged currency. It essentially fixes the …

Does your well being depend upon the health of the financial markets? How well off will you be within the next year or the next five years? The truth of the matter is that an …

Credit derivatives are exactly what the name implies i.e. derived from credit. In other words the financial instruments such as collateralized bonds are created from a credit instrument such as commercial credit or commercial loans. …

You should understand convertible bonds before investing your valuable hard earned savings in them. As compared to a regular fixed term bond, convertible bonds are different and possess some complex features. If you put little …

The number of Americans approaching and entering retirement continues to increase as the older members of the Baby Boomer generation near the end of their careers. With that in mind, more people are looking for …

I don’t want to belabor this point, but since the mass media, print, TV and otherwise, keeps on it, it needs to be addressed. For years now, investors, fueled by an overly accommodative Fed, acted …

Everyone wants to make money, and they want to make a lot of it for doing nothing. Here is the key – Invest in the movies! No, not by going to a movie, or investing …

Index funds are passive funds. They are passive in that they simply follow a particular stock index. These indexes could be the S&P 500, the NASDAQ, or any other of a number of market indexes. …

“Flight to quality” is an investment market phenomenon that generally occurs in poorly performing or highly erratic financial markets. It is characterized by movement of investment capital away from perceived high-risk investments and into lower …

Forex comes from foreign exchange and is a virtual market that offers software platforms where traders can make money by selling and buying it. To make any money you have to buy low and sell …

Mutual, where investing is concerned, means buying into a generally held fund from a company that invests other people’s money. This company will have expertise in managing the different types of investments and all the …

If you have recently invested in a rental property, you may quickly discover that the responsibilities involved in managing the property can be overwhelming. One easy way to relieve the pressure of managing your rental …