Understanding Equity Options

Options derived from the cash equity market are called equity options. Learn what they are and how to use them to use them to make money from the markets in your trading and investing.

Make Money Like A Film Star!

Do you ever wonder how Brad Pitt invests his money? Does Oprah get the same financial advice as you do? Or do celebrities get advice and results that are unique, different, better? The secret is out! Celebrities DO invest their money differently from the average investor or business owner, but you to can take similar actions to grow and protect your wealth. You just have to know what secret questions to ask.

Tour the Sweden ETF

The book The Flight of the Creative Class by Richard Florida includes an index to measure the kind of creativity most useful to business – talent, technology and flexibility – and found Sweden to be the number one spot in Europe and the world. If your image of Sweden and Denmark is still that of a socialistic, slow growth, bureaucratic economy - you need to join me as I lead a small group of individual investors to visit to both Stockholm as well as Copenhagen, Denmark during the third week of June 2007.

How Much is a Great Independent Financial Consultant Really Worth?

Ever wondered exactly how much the services your financial consultant provides to you is worth? Most financial consultants that work for a large global investment firm need about U.S. $50 million of assets under management to make a decent living in a metropolitan region. Using this as a benchmark, let's break down what this figure means to you as a client. It's highly unlikely that a financial consultant has clients that all have accounts of $1 million or more, so let's assume that he or she does not accept clients with less than U.S. $250,000. Now let's calculate how many hours a year this independent financial consultant will devote to your account.

Investing Your Money Wisely: How To Interpret Company Reports

To invest your money and retain control, you need to know how to interpret company reports. Read this article to find out how.

Investing Your Money: Check Your Financial Health

To invest your money wisely, you first need to give your finances a health check. This article will help you work through the key elements of your financial position before looking at investment options.

Investing: Building Up An Equity Portfolio

Direct investing in equities means building up an equity portfolio. This article introduces the key principles of analysis, stocks, and shares.

Amortization Calculator

Find out how much interest you will pay over the life of a loan. How much interest will you pay on your loan or a mortgage? An amortization calculator will tell you how much. Does it matter? If you know you have to pay 600 dollars a month, isn't that enough to know? Yes. It does matter, because the amortization calculator will show you that after one year you own almost none of your house. If you sell it, you will have to pay the full loan back. If the housing market was going badly, and you didn't get what you sold your house for, you might find you did not have enough money to buy the new house you want. This situation can also affect you when you retire. If you are young, you probably think you are doing well buying a house because it will be a good investment, and will provide the basis of your retirement investments. Usually, that is so, but if the housing market goes through a lean time – usually when interest rates are high – you may find it is not such a good retirement investment.

How Not to Make Money by Investing

Many people think buying a property and renting it out is a good investment even when they have to top up the mortgage with their money.

Hedge Funds - Derivatives - Debt - China and the Risk of Systemic Market Panic

It seems that with every significant market swoon, commentators come out of the woodwork on financial television and speak of systemic risk to the financial markets, often from hedge fund or complex derivative blow ups, or events from China. I think there is always the risk, however small, that such an event could occur and cause a meltdown, and we would be foolhardy to say this would never happen.

The Gift That Keeps On Giving - A Money Market Savings Account

The article is about putting away anywhere from 3 months to 6 months of expenses for emergencies if a money market savings account. Of course, you can had more.

Fixed Interest Investing - Investing In National Savings

National Savings (NS) are investment products provided by the government and are therefore a way for the government to borrow from the public. Read this article to understand the fundamental principles of investing this way.

Investing For Your Retirement

Investing for your retirement means looking at pension scheme contributions, individual pension accounts, and additional voluntary contributions. This article provides an introduction to these important elements of investing for your retirement.

Buying Insurance Bonds: Endowments And Broker Funds

Endowments and broker funds are explained in this article, which would be useful for anybody beginning to assess their position for investments.