The companies that provide investment services can be ranked in accordance with some arithmetic calculations. However, these arithmetic ratings are never full proof, owing to the fact that the economy is unpredictable and so is the investor psychology. Here are the top investment companies, this list has been made on the basis of several factors … Read More “List of Top 10 Investment Companies” »
LOS ANGELES, CA. Recently, we have seen a cyclone of economic and political news and developments that has affected the real estate industry. Overall, these developments have created somewhat higher downside risks. Growth and inflation data over the last month have not come up to our forecasts. In our view, the mixed data suggests a … Read More “Real Estate Outlook May 2018” »
It matters not what lines, numbers, indices, or gurus you worship, you just can’t know where the stock market is going or when it will change direction. Too much analytical effort is wasted trying to predict course corrections… even more is squandered comparing changes in portfolio “market value” with unrelated indices and averages. If we … Read More “The Art of Investing: A New Wall Street “Line Dance”” »
If you were to Google “stock market volatility”, you would find a wide range of observations, conversations, reports, analyses, recipes, critiques, predictions, alarms, and causal confusion. Books have been written; indices and measuring tools have been created; rationales and conclusions have been proffered. Yet, the volatility remains. Statisticians, economists, regulators, politicians, and Wall Street gurus … Read More “Harnessing Stock Market Volatility” »
Taxes are one of the major sources of revenue to the government. In fact, not a single government has its own money. In order to fund security, education, health, and infrastructural projects, the UK government depends on a number of sources, including individual income taxes, social insurance taxes, corporate income taxes, estate, excise, and gift … Read More “Why is the income tax so high in UK?” »
Fascinating, aren’t they, these security markets of ours, with their unpredictability, promise, and unscripted daily drama. But individual investors themselves are even more interesting. We’ve become the product of a media driven culture that must have reasons, predictability, blame, scapegoats, and even that “four-letter” word, certainty. We are becoming a culture of speculators, where hindsight … Read More “Investment Strategy: The Investor’s Creed Revisited” »
To quote the famous satirist, Dorothy Parker “We hate doing our taxes, but we love having done our taxes”. Especially if there’s a refund coming. It’s also natural to hate paying for things that you believe you can do yourself and tax is one of those things. When you look at a simple tax return, … Read More “Should I do my own tax return?” »
LOS ANGELES, CA. Last month saw the first huge correction in the stock market since early 2016. US Congress agreed on an expansionary spending path for 2018-19 and long-term interest rates increased to multi-year highs and are expected to increase this year. How will this play out in the real estate market? Although it appears … Read More “Real Estate Investment Outlook” »
As of March 23, 2018, the S & P 500 (at $2,588.26) was down roughly 10% from its January 26, 2018 all time high of $2,872.87, and down about 3.2% for the year, presumably in anticipation of an imminent trade war. Additionally, interest rate sensitive securities were trading near 52 week low levels as bond … Read More “Investment Opportunity Times Two…Or Is It Four” »
Warren Buffett’s’ strategies on investing are to find companies that you trust, believe in and understand the business model. If not walk away now. One must learn to be patient, to wait for these stock prices to fall to value prices, and then hold on the stock for the long term at least 10 years, … Read More “The Strategies from the Genus’ of Investing: Investing style is a mater of finding your personality type and risk tolerance” »