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Apartment Building Wealth: The Passive Investors Guide to Building Long Term Wealth and Financial Security Investing in Apartment Buildings
Apartment Building Wealth: The Passive Investors Guide to Building Long Term Wealth and Financial Security Investing in Apartment Buildings
With a new economy, comes a new way of thinking, as well as doing. Time to take control over your financial future. In these uncertain times we are seeing financial institutions and mega corporations falling along with our 401K’s and savings. Time for a new approach! Inside this book you will discover the exact system and proven strategies of the wealthiest and most successful apartment building investors in this simple, step by step guide book. Whether you are a new investor or seasoned inv
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Windstream: A Killer Deal For Frugal Investors
By Dividend Kings:
Integrating television, video and music streaming, and web browsing has revolutionized how people receive and view their favorite TV shows, movies, music, video clips, photos, and more. And as people become more used to the convenience of accessing both television and the Internet on one device, the more they will demand it in the future. As a result, telecom companies like Windstream (WIN), Verizon (VZ), Comcast (CMCSA), AT&T (T), and Charter Communications (CHTR) have all had to adapt to meet customers’ changing needs.
Windstream’s Merge
In this article, I argue that Windstream’s new Merge service is a killer deal for frugal investors like me! In March 2012, Windstream introduced
Investors Make this Same Mistake Over and Over Again
More than a decade removed from the dot-com era, investors are once again reverting to bad habits. They're chasing seemingly sexy hot IPOs (initial public offerings) as they rise ever-higher and are often the last ones left holding the bag when reality eventually sets in and these stocks steadily fall.
We've already seen this scenario play out earlier this year — and it's happening again. Recall that at the end of 2011, investors were buzzing about the year's hottest IPOs: LinkedIn (Nasdaq: LNKD), Groupon (Nasdaq: GRPN) and Zynga (Nasdaq: ZNGA).
As a reality check, I took a closer look at these business models in February of this year and concluded that only LinkedIn had the makings of a tangible business model. Both Zynga and Groupon looked sharply overvalued at the time, as investors were clearly buying into a future that may never materialize. Here's how these stocks have done since then…
After the post-IPO buzz died down and additional quarterly reports rolled in, Groupon and Zynga could no longer sustain their valuations, which exceeded $ 10 billion at their peaks. And the selling may not be done. Groupon resorts to aggressive accounting, and it's unclear that the company's projected $ 0.75 in 2013 earnings per share (EPS) represents real profit out of this business or not. Zynga is doing its best to use its post-IPO financial strength to buy its way into long-term relevance, but as the recent sell-off in traditional games makers like Electronic Arts (NYSE: EA) tells us, you're only as good as your last hot gaming title. It's a bit hard for me to see upside for LinkedIn from here, but at least this is a real business model.
Another IPO bubble emerges
Investors only want to own these stocks simply because they think other investors will want to own these stocks even more. So their appeal lies in an intangible and ephemeral notion of perceived value that others hold.
And right now, a fresh crop of recent IPOs is again soaring ever higher, and the majority will eventually have to face up to the reality of quarterly reports, and not simply a game of hot potato.
Investors, Issuers Plan for 2112 With ‘Century Bonds’
NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Investors are starting to make trades that prepare themselves for the 22nd century amid uncertainty about the U.S. economy, the direction of interest rates and the sustainability of once mighty industries.
Will railroads, Coca Cola drinks, Disney features and IBM IT systems be around when the 21st century draws to a close? Previous investor bets on those companies’ bonds that expire at the end of the century say “yes.”
Top U.S. colleges like the University of Pennsylvania are using current market worries to plan for a century of needs by selling 100-year bonds at what may amount to the cheapest financings in history. While retirement and college savers may find little benefit in those bonds, understanding the market for them may clear the air on how to navigate the investing risks that linger after the crisis.
University of Pennsylvania takes a look at “century bonds”
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Investors Are Ignoring this Giant Tech Stock — but Not for Long…
The world economy may be struggling to recover from the depths of the Great Recession, but there are still pockets of the market that are seeing explosive growth. Demand for electronic gadgets held up amazingly well during the credit crisis, which suggests consumers consider their smartphone or tablet computer necessities along with food and shelter. In fact, the housing bust demonstrated that shelter isn't worth all that much these days.
And it isn't actually the hardware that people crave, but rather the content that their connection to mobile devices provides. Data, in the form of email, texting — and increasingly multimedia from the likes of YouTube and Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) – are driving explosive growth in Internet content and the need to route it over fixed and wireless networks across the globe.
This growth shows few signs of abating. Networking giant Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) effectively controls the market for Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking and predicts an 18-fold jump in Internet data traffic by 2016. Specifically, it expects an eventual traffic rate of 10.8 exabytes per month, or 130 exabytes annually. To put that into some additional context, this equates to 33 billion DVD downloads, and literally quadrillions of music and text downloads.
Without fully understanding the level of traffic that equates to, I'm confident that means a rapidly growing amount of routers, switches and optical networking gear will be needed. Cisco sells billions of dollars of these products each year. The company reported total revenue of $ 43.2 billion last year, but it still has room to grow.
Last year, Cisco was criticized for focusing on its "new products" category, such as video that connects households and its Linksys-branded routers for the consumer market. It admittedly took its eye off the ball and lost some of its competitive edge in the bread-and-butter routers and switches that accounted for $ 20.5 billion, or 47.4% of last year's total revenue.
The Investor’s Paradox: The Dumb Money Is the Smart Money
In the investing game, the “dumb money” wins. The people who know what they don’t know, who spend less than they earn, put the surplus in tax-advantaged accounts, avoid what they can’t explain, buy what offers good value, and focus on becoming successes in their primary careers tend to do very well over time. This is especially true if they start young and are fortunate enough to marry a complimentary spouse with the same priorities.
Instead, it seems like so many people just want to be clever; to “beat” the system. They try get rich quick schemes, leverage their family’s balance sheet to the hilt, speculate in shares of a company they don’t understand, and treat their investment portfolio like a casino game in Las Vegas. They want to be smart or brilliant when their focus should be on building last wealth.
Once you make a decent living – probably somewhere around $ 75,000 per year in most parts of the country – and you have no debt, saving money isn’t hard. Think about how much cash the average person has to spend each year just to pay interest on credit card debt or home loans, car loans or student loans. It’s obscene. There is no reason to live that way. None.
The Investor’s Paradox: The Dumb Money Is the Smart Money originally appeared on About.com Investing for Beginners on Thursday, March 29th, 2012 at 05:56:46.
The Frugal Investor’s Guide to Finding Great Stocks
The Frugal Investor’s Guide to Finding Great Stocks
Beginner investors often don’t know how to get started. But in just 11 easy steps, “The Frugal Investor’s Guide” will help you identify great stocks to buy and get started investing your retirement funds profitably and safely. Best of all, the tools and resources outlined in this book are 100% FREE!
This “how to invest” handbook is complete with illustrations for various stock research websites in order to help you figure out how to analyze stocks and sort through information efficien
Inverse funds: Risky bet isn’t for long-term investors
I’ve worked at several companies with 401(k) plans, but none of them has offered an “inverse fund,” or a fund that moves in the opposite direction of the market. I think this would be a nice diversification option to have when the market is shaky. Is there a reason this option hasn’t been available in any of my 401(k)s? — Paul, New Hope, Minn.
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