Robert Thomson's Articles in Investing

  • What is a CD Fixed Annuity?
    A CD Fixed Annuity is a simple type of investment. CD refers to the term Certificate of Deposit which is similar to the savings mechanisms offered by...
  • Low Risk Investing
    As it becomes increasingly difficult to earn a buck in the current economy, many people are seeking out low-risk investments as a means to assert some control over their...
  • Is an Annuity Right for Me?
    When deciding what retirement and investment vehicles are appropriate for you, there are several types of products and special situations to...
  • How BPM Software Helps Your ROI and TCO
    For companies operating in today's fast-changing, global marketplace, every day presents a completely new set of challenges, risks and potential rewards. Changing needs, advancing technology and...
  • Investing In Gold: The Perfect Shining Investment
    Why do experts recommend investing in gold even when the economy is at its worst
  • Discover More Trading Profits by Keeping it Simple
    Discover the fundamental reason many want-to-be investors and traders never make it to full time. Watch out for these common errors. Master these things and there is no end with what you can do with trading.
  • Why Investing In the Stock Market
    To be completely honest, anyone can invest in the market. However, only those who are experienced and truly want to learn to become a better investor will ever make a good income through it. However, you cannot build up this experience without actually spending real money.
  • EB-5 vs. EB-2 Investment Visas: What's the Difference?
    Many individuals wish to enter the U.S. for investment purposes. As soon as they look into the prospect, however, the question...
  • The Safety Of Your Annuity
    Although financial pros and government officials are still giving praise to annuities, they often have a bad rap. However, the problem has less to do with...
  • Important Informations on Forex Trading Systems
    Various systems are possible when it comes to the forex trading market. Learn the pros and cons of the system and what you should look for when it comes to trading systems.
  • Survive Critical Times with Forex Trading
    In difficult economic times, rare are the sectors of economics activities that dont suffer a blow. Forex trading is subject to same. Learn how to deal with those difficult moments and how to overcome the challenge of forex trading.
  • A Guide to Hiring an Investment Advisor
    There is no dearth of financial or investment advice but it is tough to find a dependable, honest and ethical investment adviser who can help us secure our financial future. This article is a guide to hiring and working with an investment adviser.
  • Go For The Gold!
    Perhaps you’ve planned it from the beginning, or maybe you’ve taken years to decide. Somewhere down the line will come the time to sell your business, and you want to make sure you come out on top.
  • What You Need to Know About Debt Negotiation
    Debt consolidation and negotiation is not easy, so it is important to understand how to do it.
  • Annuities Reaping Rewards Since The Roman Empire
    Annuities have been yielding dividends to investors since their origination in the early stages of the Roman Empire.
  • Learn How To Make Money On The Forex Market
    Forex trading is trading the currency of a country for the currency of a different country at their current exchange rate.
  • Signals a Stock is Set to Fall
    No one has said it in so many words, but we are at the closing stages of the depression. In a time when the nation is going to rise and fall as it stabilizes, it is important to be familiar with when a stock is about to stagger.
  • Investors Wait for a Self-confidence Increase
    The United States is entering a much wanted financial upturn.
  • Looking For Higher Returns On Your CDs?
    Have rates on your CDs been going down?
  • Understanding What 1031 NNN Triple Net Leased Investment Properties Are
    When looking for investment properties, you may have come across something called 1031 NNN triple-net leases and passed them by, not understanding what they are.
  • Financial Brightness
    Word got around that the country was showing the signs of revival. The optimism of the experts has quickly been reflected in the buying patterns of investors and the economy is healthy.
  • Tired Of Stock Market Volatility?
    Whether you invested through your 401(k), or bought mutual funds, bonds, or stocks, it is most likely you saw the value of your investment or portfolio decrease by as much as 30-50% in a matter of 6-12 months.
  • Primary Buyer Support Levels in Residential Real Estate Markets
    The two true real estate investor types, Rent Savers and Cashflow Investors, move in to a market and create a bottom when comparative rents come into alignment with the total cost of ownership. Rent Savers enter the market and begin purchasing real estate. It makes sense for them to do so because ownership becomes a savings over renting (hence the term Rent Saver).
  • Risk Synergy for Investors in Mortgage-Backed Securities
    One of the major failings of the credit markets in the Great Housing Bubble was the failure to take a holistic view and evaluate the systemic risks involved. A standard credit analysis reviews various risk parameters and attempts to rate the impact of each. The implicit assumption is that the total risk is equal to the sum of the parts; however this is not necessarily the case. Synergy is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and there is a strong synergy in default loss risk in collateralized debt obligations that became apparent during the Great Housing Bubble. The credit rating agencies failed to identify this risk synergy until after the fact.
  • Are Mortgage-Backed Securities Dead?
    One can argue that structured finance creates greater efficiency in our financial system because capital is freed to pursue other objectives. Although, it can also be argued, as Warren Buffet has, that derivatives, the product of structured finance, are "financial weapons of mass destruction." Both arguments stem from the same characteristic of these securities: excessive debt.
  • The Structure of a Collateralized Debt Obligation
    Collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) are asset-backed securities formed from bundles of residential mortgages. These structures provided the capital delivery mechanism that helped inflate the Great Housing Bubble. CDOs are merely a tool. If used appropriately, they can speed the delivery of capital and create a more efficient capital market. If used inappropriately, they can be a financial weapons of mass destruction, and they can threaten our entire capitalist system.
  • Residential Real Estate Investment Value - How Is It Calculated?
    The United States Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics measures the Rent of primary residence (rent) and Owners' equivalent rent of primary residence (rental equivalence). They make this distinction because a house has both a consumptive purpose and an investment purpose. The consumptive value is measured by rent or rental equivalence. There is legitimate financial reason to pay more than the rental equivalence price. The normal rate of house appreciation, not the unsustainable kind witnessed during the Great Housing Bubble, can provide a return on investment. The source of this added value is the leverage of mortgage financing and the hedge against inflation obtained through a fixed-rate mortgage. The investment premium, which is about 10%, is less than most people think.
  • Real Estate is the Major Religion in California
    California has a major cultural "religion" that cuts across traditional denominational lines, the religion of real estate. Like any religion it requires faith. The religion of real estate requires blind faith in the idea that "real estate always go up."
  • The Housing Bubble was a Massive Real Estate Ponzi Scheme
    People have not fully grasped the changes that will result from the deflation of The Great Housing Bubble. There are many historic parallels with the closest being The Great Depression. When the stock market bubble of the 1920s began to deflate in late 1929, few thought the boom times of the decade were over, and even fewer saw the disaster coming of The Great Depression. The 2008/2009 recession will not likely reach the severity of The Great Depression, but it will signal the end to the lifestyle to which so many have become accustomed.
  • A Beginner’s Guide to Automated Forex Trading
    Want to make it big in the foreign exchange market, in the comfort of your own home, using nothing else but your computer?
  • Price-to-Rent Ratio for Housing is Like the Price-to-Earnings Ratio for Stocks
    Just as stocks have price-to-earnings ratios (PE Ratios) used to establish relative value, houses have a price-to-rent ratio to establish relative value. Rent is the income or potential earnings a property can produce. It does not matter if the property is rented or if an owner lives in the property. The potential for rent is equal to the potential for earning.
  • Speculative Equity - What Is It and How to Get It?
    People who purchase real estate use the phrase "building equity" to describe the overall increase in equity over time. However, most people think in terms of capturing speculative equity, the equity gained from other speculators bidding up prices. Everyone wants to make money by doing nothing, and the lure of speculative equity is that one can make millions by simply buying and holding an asset. To really understand equity, it is important to look at the factors which either create or destroy equity to see how market conditions and financing terms impact this all-important feature of real estate.
  • Stock Market Investment Strategy
    An investment strategy is basically a plan for investing your money in various types of investments that will help you meet your financial goals in a specific amount of time. Each type of investment contains individual investments that you must choose from. A clothing store sells clothes - but those clothes consist of shirts, pants, dresses, skirts, undergarments, etc. The stock market is a type of investment, but it contains different types of stocks, which all contain different companies that you can invest in.
  • Forex Broker- Tools to Find Best Forex Broker
    Time to Select a winning Forex Broker. This will help you find the best online brokers in the market. Finding the right Forex Broker is an important as selecting a winning trade. When you start trading you make sure you do your due dilligence on that stock or currency before you trade, well you should do exactly the same with selecting a Forex Broker. So what are the key requirements that you need?
  • Stock Market Trading- 3 Strategies to Make you a Millionaire
    Stock Market Trading- Are you ready to become a millionaire. Here are 3 proven strategies to make you become a more successful trader and increase your wealth. They can be used if you are forex trader, stock market trader.

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