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Pension Funds

This is a brief look at pension funds. A pension fund is a retirement investment fund that is comprised of contributions from an employer and his employee, which is intended to generate money to be able to cater to the pension payments of the employee upon his retirement. The pension fun... More >>

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Maximizing Your Children’s College Funds

This is a brief look at how to maximize your children’s college funds. It is a well-known fact that college education in many parts of the world is pretty expensive. Even in other parts of the world such as Sweden where free tuition was available, there have been drastic cutbacks and co... More >>

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Pension Plans and Tax Policies

Pension plans in the majority of developed countries are have favorable tax policies for both the employer and the employee. In the United States and in most developed countries private pensions are given tax treatment which is favorable to both the employee and the employer, although the det... More >>

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What You Need To Know About Credit Rating Agencies

Credit rating agencies assign ratings which indicate the credit worthiness of issuers of debt instruments and also the actual issue itself. Credit rating agencies are companies that assign a credit rating to all entities that issue debt instruments and the debt instruments too. The entities t... More >>

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Basic ETF Tutorial

Exchange Traded Funds are designed to provide the investor with a trading instrument that tracks major stock indices and can be passively managed. Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) have been used in the markets since the beginning of the 1980s but they have become very popular with investors in th... More >>

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Top Five Portfolio Protection Policies

The five portfolio protection policies are all designed to protect the investor’s portfolio against a major loss of capital. Warren Buffett once said that only by preserving capital can an investor successful invest in the long term. In a nut shell that means ‘don’t lose mon... More >>

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Falling for Pyramid Schemes

Pyramid schemes are essentially money circulation schemes which promise a lot but like multi-level marketing reach saturation point very quickly. A pyramid scheme is usually a type of investment club where on joining the club, the new recruit pays or gifts a sum of money say $1,000 to be enro... More >>

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Calculating Sharpe Ratio

The Sharpe ratio is a formula used to compare the risk adjusted performance of several investments in a portfolio. The Sharpe ratio which was created by a Nobel laureate called William Sharpe is a measure which determines if the return on a portfolio is a result of good forex investment decis... More >>

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The Benefits of Hybrid Securities

Hybrid securities are used by corporations to replenish balance sheets in order to improve their capital ratios. Hybrid securities are securities that have a maturity date which is around 50 years or more, or are securities which have a perpetual life and never mature. They have a mix of capi... More >>

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Understanding Dividend Payout Ratios

The dividend payout ratio is a calculation which shows how much of its profits a company has allocated to pay a dividend. When a company makes a profit it can use the profit in any one of three ways. The company can reinvest it and grow the business or it can use the money to reduce its debt,... More >>

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