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• November 24, 2009
• 4:22

  SROCK OPTIONS; USES AND MISUSES

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  Yesterday, I did a post on stock options where I briefly explained what they are and how they are used. I also wanted to include their uses and misuses but I decided not to because it was getting too long (I don’t like monstrosities of posts). So in this post, I do just that. An advantage [...]
• November 23, 2009
• 1:58

  UNDERSTANDING THE STOCK OPTION

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  Most of us have heard of this provision but how many know what it really is? If you don’t know, this post may enlighten you. This is a provision that gives the holder/buyer of the stock option the right to buy or sell the stock of a company he works in at a specified price or [...]
• 1:39

  WHAT IS TAX CREDIT??

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  Some time back i did a post on preferred stock and why i thought  that they were not that good particularly for individual investors. According to financial samurai and tax guru, the tax angle was interesting and so i decided to do another tax post. This will be a little about tax credit. This is a good [...]
• November 21, 2009
• 1:38

  A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF BOND INVESTING

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  For the past week or so, i have been concentrating mainly on bond and bond fund investing. While i have only skimmed the surface of this somewhat complicated bond market, it is better that you know some of these things because that is how education stars; first the introduction of concepts that are expounded later [...]
• November 19, 2009
• 1:10

  ADVANTAGES OF CONVERTIBLE BONDS TO AN INVESTOR

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  In a post that I did recently about convertible bonds (convertible bonds as the best of both worlds) a reader called Christian Pinnell Commented that I hadn’t really brought out the second part of the heading i.e. how they are the best of both worlds. So today’s post is dedicated to this. To sufficiently cover this [...]
• November 17, 2009
• 1:09

  DUAL PURPOSE FUNDS FOR THE OPTION SEEKING INVESTOR

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  I recently stumbled across this type of mutual funds as I was doing a little independent study and I thought of making a little post on this after a little research. This is what I found out about them. These are in the closed end mutual fund category broadly meaning that they have a fixed number [...]
• November 16, 2009
• 6:21

  THE TRUST FUND EXPLAINED

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  We have all heard of this much media hyped financial arrangement and we have all wished at a certain point in time to be one of those enviable trust fund babies. But what are these trust funds and who exactly do they work? In this post, I will try to explain this in as few [...]
• 6:05

  CONVERTIBLE BONDS- THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS??

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  As the name suggests, this is a corporate issued bond that can be converted into some other investment vehicle in this case, it can be converted into common stocks . This is done at only certain times and at a fixed conversion ratio. But the conversion is not as straightforward as it may seem. Let me [...]
• November 12, 2009
• 2:13

  WHAT IS (OR WERE) BEARER BONDS??

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  These are just like normal bonds (corporate or government-) but the major difference is that they are unregistered i.e. when you invest in any other type of bonds, you go into the records as a registered owner and the paper you hold has proof of your ownership of the said bonds but with the bearer [...]
• November 10, 2009
• 3:34

  PREFERRED STOCKS MAY NOT BE BETTER AFTER ALL

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  Some time back I did a post about preferred stocks where I concentrated on the advantages that they had for conservative investors. A small  run-through is that; 1- In the unfortunate event of liquidation or in profit sharing preferred stock holders are paid before common stock holders. 2- The cumulative nature that preferred stock dividends have in that [...]
• November 09, 2009
• 4:20

  THE GENIUS OF THE ORACLE OF OMAHA

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  I am a personal finance blogger and there is no secret that i love Warren Buffett. I have linked to most articles that i have ever read of him, the most recent being “invest like the richest” I like the investing style that he crusades that is so different that what i hear from most financial [...]
• 1:44

  WHY THEY CALL THEM JUNK BONDS

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  This is a type of corporate bond that is has a high risk of default and thus offers high yields. A salient feature of bonds is that their risk of default depends on among other things, the credit worthiness of the issuing company. If the company has low credit worthiness, there is a higher risk that [...]
• November 07, 2009
• 2:49

  INVEST LIKE THE RICHEST

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  We all know who Warren Buffett is-also called the Oracle of Omaha. In the financial world he is looked up to and emulated by all the investors who want large numbers of Zeros in their bank accounts. Anyways, a few days ago, i was reading through yahoo and i found an article that was reviewing a [...]
• November 06, 2009
• 6:23

  THE CONSPIRACY OF THE RICH; A BLOGGER’S PERSONAL REVIEW

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  For those who don’t know, Robert Kiyosaki (of Rich Dad Poor Dad) has written and published another book that is called the conspiracy of the rich. It is available for sale at amazon.com and it is on the New York Times best seller list. Before it was published, I had the chance to read it [...]
• November 05, 2009
• 4:29

  WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT GOVERNMENT BONDS

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  Just like corporate bonds are IOUs by the companies issuing the bonds, government bonds are IOUs to the general public to borrow money that will be returned at a predetermined time at face value with interest payment periodically up to maturity. Governments issue these bonds when they have more money needs than can be satisfied by [...]
• November 03, 2009
• 4:21

  SENIOR & SUBORDINATED CORPORATE DEBT EXPLAINED

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  Yesterday’s post was about corporate debt of which there are two types secured & unsecured debt and senior & subordinated debt. We will look at the latter in this post Senior debt is a secured debt in that it is the primary debt that is paid off in the unfortunate event of an issuer’s bankruptcy. Most [...]
• 4:04

  AN OVERVIEW OF SECURED & UNSECURED CORPORATE BONDS

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  Yesterday, I did a post on corporate bonds and Wikipedia stated that there were two types of these bonds; -secured and unsecured bonds -senior and subordinated bonds I will run through secured and unsecured bonds and the next post will deal with senior and subordinated bonds Secured corporate debts are bonds that are backed up by the issuer’s (company [...]
• November 02, 2009
• 1:13

  CORPORATE BONDS & CORPORATE BOND FUNDS EXPLAINED

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  First we will look at corporate bonds and then their corresponding mutual funds. I recently covered the bond funds and mentioned the types of bonds. Basically corporate bonds are debt instruments by which both private and public corporations (referred to as the issuer) use to raise money to expand their businesses by borrowing money from the general [...]
• November 01, 2009
• 4:18

  WHAT REALLY CAUSED THIS RECESSION??

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  To the above question, i have just an inkling but there is an author/writer that has a more detailed and credible argument on this economic catastrophe. A while back, i did a post on type of economic depressions and for some strange reason the post still gets a lot of traffic. Anyways, i was reading through [...]