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Tips to cut your spending in half
Replied May. 8, 2009
Recession investing?
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Dick Smith's taxes
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Whilst what you are saying is true, use cash instead of cards. But I do believe we are heading into tougher times ahead so stocking up on food wouldn't go astray either. Food is not getting cheaper, only the occasional discounted food items. Fruit a…
I'm from the UK and had my money invested in Hedge Funds, managed by a close friend of mine. He set up a business model some six years ago and has consistently made 15% - 20% returns every year, which is compounding -interest on the interest also! F…
some of the risks of reset preference shares are (a) underlying risk of the company going belly-up - same as owning the ordinary share; (b) they should be linked to a margin above the CPI otherwise as inflation goes up, which it will with all the mo…
What is the risk of reset preference shares? And how do you know which ones are good?
Cheers,
JFK
Actually I read about them just yesterday on the bull:
WITH YIELDS OF UP TO 13 PER CENT, NO WONDER INVESTORS ARE TURNING TO HYBRIDS
Hope this helps.
What does everyone think about them? Are they a good investment?
JFK
at the moment I am not investing for the long term, I am simply trading this bear market rally. I'm setting trailing stop losses so that a reversal, which will come shortly, will take me out with most of the recent profit. This rally is not based on…
It does make it tough, but I reckon there are some good opps in the sharemarket with 2009 shaping up to be a cracking year after the market was slammed in 07 & 08. That said, it'll probably be pretty volatile over the next few years. One thing that…
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Miffy said… - Hi Georgina, welcome! No pic or confession?
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I've been reading alot of American websites posted on the internet about their economic position and I believe the world is coming to ruin - I have read a book and researched pages. And frankly I am scared! This is the website for the U.S NATIONAL DEBT.
www.brillig.com/debt_clock
Some people believe that the U.S. is in such a financial mess that their dollar will shortly collapse. See
www.geocities.com/northstarzone/EURO.html
The media tells us not to panick our Australian banks are strong Y… Continue
www.brillig.com/debt_clock
Some people believe that the U.S. is in such a financial mess that their dollar will shortly collapse. See
www.geocities.com/northstarzone/EURO.html
The media tells us not to panick our Australian banks are strong Y… Continue
Posted on September 24, 2008 at 5:36am — 9 Comments
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Hi all,I am after some advice and ideas from everyone, professional advice thus far has been to declare bankrupt and get it over and done with.
This is my situation, I used to own a company that T/O was around $1M p/a. The business had a bad season…
Be aware that Fox Symes is more of a credit management company and might not be what you need. I would talk to the lease company first, explain your circumstances and try to renogotiate the lease terms, eg extending the term to make payments less...…
The Shire of Litchfield had a problem collecting about $250,000 from unimproved land holdings which were unmaintained and basically had no active ownership. This properties known as "dead man" leases were owned by estates that acquired them in the 1…
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Ever read "The richest man in Babylon"? Its got the most straight forward financial plan that applies to anyone.
In fact you can buy a series of books revealing Buffetts strategy. The ones I prefer are any authored by Mary Buffett but there are others as well
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We've got 3 properties (2 investment properties and 1 principle residence). We lived in our principle residence for 2 years and have been renting it out for the past 5.5 years, the property is va…
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