Investing may seem like a daunting task to undertake but it’s one of the most rewarding for those willing to educate themselves about what techniques, strategies, and resources provide the best return on investment. Before you get too ahead of yourself and start dumping your money into stocks its best that you start with… Read more
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5 ways to quickly add value to your property
There exists a multitude of options and reasons for increasing the value of your home. Perhaps your mortgage application was just accepted and it is time to put your old house on the market. You want to get the most out of selling your old house and are willing to put just a bit of… Read more
Maximise your Returns through Tax Efficient Investments
It is worthwhile knowing that there are certain investment accounts that will shield you from tax, and this allows you to enhance your returns on all of your investments. These investment accounts are known as tax wrappers. Tax wrappers can be used to protect you from Income Tax, Capital Gains Tax, Inheritance Tax… Read more
How to Balance Risk and Reward For a Winning Portfolio
Knowing how to manage your wealth and allocate your assets is one of the most important keys to financial success and unfortunately, many people neglect this critical aspect of financial planning. As a result, the gains that they make during good times are erased when economic conditions shift and move in the opposite direction…. Read more
Keep your “safe” investments safe
Hi there! Today I am having Pat Murphy, the publisher of Feeling Financial. talk about how to keep your investments safe. Pat writes about personal finance with a focus on how our emotions and behavior affect financial outcomes. Let me know if you would like to submit a guest post. Over at Make Money Your… Read more
It is not about how much you have, it is about the returns
Unless you have millions, of course. Then the returns still matter, but not so much, you can live quite well on what your millions make on a 3% savings account. I was checking my net worth the other day, and realized my investments give me a monthly return just over 1%. That is the… Read more
Binary Options
Options are financial tools very widely used to speculate on a certain asset or as a bet-hedging strategy, reducing the risk on an investment. Essentially, options give the buyer the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell a certain underlying asset at a fixed price (known as strike price) at any point… Read more
Lessons learned from an investment gone wrong
As you may know by now, I enjoy high risk/reward investments as part of my investing strategies. Being young, healthy, and with a sought-after degree in business, I can still go back to work if the plan was all too risky, but so far, things have been going quite well. Except for that investment. I… Read more
Cattle investment part III: they are all gone!
This is the third post about how I invested in cattle, this time a lighter read with pictures of how the last sale went, if you want to check what breeding cattle is about and the numbers of the past September sale, you can refer to those two posts. It is a bittersweet… Read more
Selling some livestock investment
It is almost time to sell my last 56 heads of cattle! I am not really happy about it, since the profits were really great and it has been a totally passive investment, but the pasture at the ranch is getting scarce and keeping the calves longer may mean that they lose weight by not… Read more