Offering high returns and passive income is not the only reason investing in real estate is good for your portfolio, although those are pretty good reasons by themselves. Financial advisors are always telling you to diversify and I’m sure everybody who reads this blog has heard it once before. They tell you to own shares [...]

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As I mentioned in my last post FuGro Investments is launching a new project/investment opportunity, so I thought I would tell everybody what it is all about. Before I do that though I should mention that FuGro is a company that specializes in renovation real estate projects. It started with a house flip and then [...]

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I have decided to move some of my investments around. Currently the vast majority of my savings are in a Real Estate based mutual fund. I’m going to transfer up to half of that money into an upcoming project with the firm I work with. The project has an annual return of 24% (annually) and should take [...]

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With “Eco-Friendly” and “Green” being such hot buzz words, it’s easy to get excited about the environmentally responsible funds that are available. Investment firms are taking this opportunity to sell these funds like there’s no tomorrow. These funds are generally made up of companies that attempt to remain environmentally responsible while conducting their business. [...]

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Today was the black Monday for Yahoo. After being unable to come to an agreement with Microsoft, their stock dropped significantly. A majority of yahoo shareholders were anticipating a buyout and it was that reason alone that the stock price was high. With that offer no longer on the table, the stock price of Yahoo [...]

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One of the key ways to create wealth is by leveraging your money. Although I won’t go into the math today, simply due to its complexity and I’d like to review it before writing about, the theory behind leveraging is quite simple. Essentially leveraging money is when you borrow money (hopefully a low interest rate) [...]

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Admit it, we all have our own personal favorite stocks. Whether its because they made you a fantastic return on investment or you worked for that company, we all have the ones we hold dear. /cheesy
To begin this post, one of my most “traveled” stocks is Delta.
On just about every flight I take inside the [...]

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Think of the possibilities. Think of the changes this would bring.
Trading stocks 24/7 would equally have its perks and problems. The other day, I was thinking that since the Foreign Currency Exchange or FOREX was 24/7/365 what would the current face of financial trading look like here in the US if both the Nasdaq and NYSE [...]

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Well now you know, I really dislike penny stocks and so should you. Roughly a year or two ago, I completly bought into the whole ethanol craze and was actively researching various Nasdaq and NYSE ethanol companies like Archer-Daniels Midland and Pacific Ethanol. As I did not have enough money on hand to purchase a [...]

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Your credit card is going public on the NYSE according to an article out of CNN’s website.
With many different stocks typically raising $100-200 million per initial offering, this one plans to be huge. VISA Credit Card Services is planning on raising upwards of $18billion as some estimates have shown. With many stocks that we have in our [...]

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