The Indian stock market is a mixed bag of advances and declines. But it is positivism that gains more consideration. The recession bug has no doubt hit all world markets including stock market in India, but things have changed for the better. With the governments reform initiatives, the sun started shining brightly on the Indian stock market attracting foreign investors so much so that purchases worth Rs 2,727 crore a month were made by them...more
In especially volatile economic times, the drive to invest money wisely becomes more poignant. Traditional money-management strategies are examined with hesitation: just because an investment portfolio behaved well once before does not dictate its success in the future. Hindsight has recently taught us that savvy investors need to consider market trends, market volatility and new investment vehicles; they need to recognize excessive risk and the...more
After the last 18 months in the stock market, many investors are shell-shocked. They thought they were on track, setting aside money, investing regularly in preparation for retirement. Then after the market top in October 2007 the economy contracted, the credit crunch hit, and the market collapsed. As the bull market of the last four years ended, most investors were unprepared for what happened in the last year and a half. Worse, most of them took no action to protect themselves during the worst market pullback in decades. If you've had the courage to look at your retirement account statement lately, it isn't pretty. What happened, and what can you do to avoid catastrophe in the future? Mutual Fund Mentality It may not be your fault that you were so unprepared for the bear market that clawed its way through your retirement account. If you're like most individual investors today, you've been encouraged to have a mutual fund mentality about investing. Somewhere along the line you were convinced that mutual fund investing is a low-risk, high-return way to financial success. It's not. You were persuaded to put your faith in an actively managed mutual fund. Told that a professional...more
Foreign currency service is one of the most important ingredients to keeping your business competitive amidst many other competitions in place. Aside from the demands brought by the business itself, you also need to make sure that you do whatever it takes to keep your customers happy so that you can gain their loyalty. Networks are very important...more
If you purchase an immediate annuity, you are instructing the company to start sending you checks as soon as possible. Immediate annuities are designed for individuals or couples who want to rely on receiving a specific amount of money. The money may be the person or couple's sole source of income or merely a supplement to other monies coming in....more
It is one thing to make money in soaring financial markets, another to make it grow when markets are down. Investors who can boast that they've done both over the past five years include those who bet on the three young money managers at the helm of Vancouver's Vertex One Asset Management Inc. Not that Vertex investors go around patting themselves on the back. They tend to be conservative types like West Vancouver's Bob Stewart, the former CEO of Scott Paper. They have made their capital and are primarily interested in protecting it.Most would subscribe to the wisdom of the legendary Columbia professor Ben Graham, who pointed out that the first rule of investing is: Don't lose money. Graham's second rule is: Don't forget the first rule. That's also the credo of financial analysts Jeff McCord, 43, John Thiessen, 40, and Matt Wood, 38, who quit MK Wong/HSBC in 1998 to launch the Vertex Fund and the Vertex Balanced Fund. The $86-million Vertex Fund is an opportunistic hedge fund or alternative strategies fund -- a category that embraces a vast range of disciplines such as short-selling, leveraging and arbitrage.Unlike conventional mutual funds, which are considered successful if they...more
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Everybody wants to invest money to earn higher returns. At the same time, they want to avoid risk. Risk cannot be avoided, but it can be reduced through diversification.Diversification is a risk management technique that mixes a wide variety of...more
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