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Global Economic Reform: Good For Egypt?

It’s great that the global economy is benefiting from economic reform, but what will this mean for developing countries, such as Egypt?  According to World Bank Officials, it might spell bad news. CFO of the World Bank Vincenzo La Via claimed that “solutions for advanced economies are not necessarily a good fit for developing countries.” … Continue Reading

Sheen on You Crazy Diamond

Charlie Sheen sure knows how to fight tough when it comes to money.  When WBTV canceled his show’s eighth season, Sheen wasn’t willing to take it lying down.  Indeed, today it seems as though Sheen will be winning his case and possibly resuming work, bringing home over #1.2 million per episode.  Litigator Martin Gold who… Continue Reading

Investment Portfolio Assets

There are various different types of investment portfolio assets, including:  bonds; future contracts; gold certificates; real estate; stocks and warrants.  An investor makes a credit to an institution (a bond); one uses a future contract for the purchase or sale of an “underlying instrument” at a set rate but the date is not set for… Continue Reading

What Are Stocks?

Stocks are not very difficult to understand, even for the uninitiated financial layman. Basically, an organization will sell stocks so that they can increase their revenue which will be used for their business. So if you buy stocks, you are helping out a business (and hopefully yourself as when the stocks increase, so will your… Continue Reading

Understanding Bonds

    If you are new to the world of finance and investments, one of the areas you need to be educated on are bonds.  If you are trying to build up a portfolio, bonds are extremely important since during stressed economic times, it is the bonds that will be there to provide stability and… Continue Reading

Understanding Pension Funds

    A pension fund is created by one’s employer for the purposes of the employee’s investment retirement funds to which they both contribute.  Each month the employee is paid, a certain percentage of the salary goes into the pension fund, with an additional sum provided by the employer.  These make very good terms for… Continue Reading

ISA Tips

It’s not easy working out which investments to put into an ISA.  First you need to assess a tremendous amount of funds; then determine how to disperse it around the types of investments/asset classes available.  This is called asset allocation.  Due to current Middle Eastern unrest, doing this properly and well is quite a balancing… Continue Reading

Understanding Portfolio Diversification?

 In theory, diversification means one decides to keep a portfolio as a part of their risk-reducing strategy and investment process.  In practice what happens is, is that one distributes their finances among various assets that would significantly decrease investment risks. Therefore, to turn portfolios into the best they can be, the direction needs to be… Continue Reading

The Ideal Investment Portfolio

When a finance-based company starts to build the ideal investment portfolio, at the same time, it will set up an investment analysis.  A customer who needs portfolio management services will approach such a company, especially if they are looking for a way to create their own investment portfolio.  Creating an ideal investment portfolio will assist… Continue Reading

Investment Portfolios

If you want to make the most of your retirement, planning is key.  One way of doing this is getting an investment portfolio which facilitates personal investment management and helps with organizing budget and savings. An investment portfolio is basically a cohesion of investments an institution/individual has.  If this is done in an efficient way,… Continue Reading