Financial Freedom Loans

Financial Freedom Loans By Stephen Chua • January 13, 2009 • No Comments This is a two edged sword ... to your lifestyle is that a loan against an equity rich asset such as an investment property can let you yield ... only when cash is short and you are sufficiently asset rich, but study it well as your lifestyle [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 04:36:29

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Writing Off What Should Have Been Written Off Long Ago

Time Warner (TWX) wrote down the value of many of its assets yesterday ... moving to manufacturing and software firms./ Most corporations will present these "accounting actions ... for too much money. The values of asset across most industries is falling. Too many companies carry [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 11:36:34

Advertisements that Work: Lessons from Tissue Pack Marketing

If you’ve been to Japan, you might have noticed the popular practice of tissue-pack marketing ... things I like about it: It is more than an ad. It is useful to the recipient. Bundled value asset ... : there is continual and repeated exposure over a period of time. A tissue pack isn’t the only asset [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 18:12:44

Sounds like an Artemis Fowl invention…

IntelliScanner Corporation, award-winning developers of scanners and software that organize everything, today unveiled IntelliScanner mini cubed. The smart scanner and software system uses barcode technology to automatically organize household ... mini cubed offers personalized asset tags and new software features for managing home assets. Sounds [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 23:15:32

Citi breakup in sight after Morgan Stanley deal (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Citigroup Inc agreed to merge its Smith Barney brokerage with Morgan Stanley's wealth management unit on Tuesday, and is expected to make further asset sales to raise capital and to isolate toxic assets from the rest of the bank. Citigroup, once the world's largest bank, may announce plans on January 22 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 01:46:29

Views on the News - 1/10/2009

NO MORE BAILOUTS! – eventually we have to learn from our mistakes from the last bailout / stimulus package: ... s $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). Presented to Congress in September 2008 in the vaguest of terms in a three-page proposal, the TARP was sold to lawmakers as a desperately needed asset [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 01:09:14

GPX: The Corporate Training Penny Stock For 2009

Jonas Elmerraji says battered companies are paying more attention to their most valuable asset: people ... . And with a strong management and solid balance sheet, Jonas says this stock looks a great buy for 2009 ... , many companies are making the decision to invest in an asset that’s not always noticed by investors… [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 12:28:53

Bidding for Boots's share

Herb Fritch, a minority partner in the NHL team, plus two other sources told The Globe and Mail Tuesday the Predators ownership group headed by ... $23.5-million, and is his biggest single asset. Fritch declined to say how much the partners bid ... group here, given they'll "own 95.4 per cent of the team," an asset that has an actual worth [more...]

Date: 2008-10-01 09:55:00

Hedge Fund Redemptions for November: $46 Billion

Given how dreadful September and October were for the vast majority of hedge funds, ... that there is an overhang of pending asset sales that may dampen upward movements in risky asset classes ... tracking its performance declining for a sixth month as economies in Asia and Europe joined [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 05:48:28

in Investing With everyone tsk-tsking the Madoff scandal -- the amount lost, the after-the-fact obviousness, ... -- at least, when compared with the heavy lifting of equity research. The asset management ... assets group, private wealth management, (even retail brokerage) have access to these funds [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 18:32:35

Why You Must Include Gold In Your Portfolio For 2009

Gold bugs have suffered one of their worst years in history, says Keith Fitz-Gerald ... asset class at the same time. And that includes gold. As we’ve seen in the last few months, during ... to realize that gold, just like any other asset, produces the best returns when it is attractively [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 14:01:25

Some Advice For Jim Oberweis

by Andy Haaf To his credit, Jim Oberweis has been outspoken about his lack of support for the $700 billion bail-out bill. Given his vast experience as Chairman and Founder of Oberweis Asset Management I support ... most people in this district have never heard of Oberweis Asset Management. I would argue most people [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 17:17:29

Why Stock Markets Are So Volatile? The Tale of 4 Masters

2008 as surely been one of the toughest years on the investors’ patience ... of their original trading strategy. Managed Portfolio – Master of asset allocation It’s been a few years ... and respect the original asset allocation. For example, if you have a balanced portfolio (50 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 10:00:41

$94 Million Refinancing Arranged by HFF for Luxury Manhattan Multifamily High-Rise

The New York and Hartford offices of HFF (Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P.) ... conditions is a testament to the sponsorship of the Cornerstone team and their best-in-class asset,” ... of MassMutual with more than $10 billion in real estate assets under management including hotels [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 13:04:18

Live-Blogging the Citigroup-Wachovia Acquisition Conference Call

Citigroup, clearly looking to challenge J.P. Morgan for the conference-call speed title, announced its acquisition of Wachovia’s assets at 8:23 a.m ... and then a crisp “please hold.” Good instructions for Armageddon, too. Mozart — Symphony No. 25, this sounds ... in this transaction…we have contained the asset risk and the operational risk is also [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 15:25:15

Israeli Second Strike Assets

Robert Farley, over at Lawyers, Guns and Money (go Zevon!) comments on a post by Peter Juul at Wonkroom regarding Israel and U.S. nuclear guarantees ... /availability schedule. A quick nonscientific glimpse at Haifa on Google Earth shows only one asset in port [more...]

Date: 2008-12-04 20:03:00

Vast Underinvestment in Due Diligence

With everyone tsk-tsking the Madoff scandal — the amount lost, the after-the-fact obviousness, ... at least, when compared with the heavy lifting of equity research. The asset management ... , there are 3 separate divisions that do so: Asset Management, Investment Banking, and Institutional [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 12:30:18

Bernanke: You Say ‘Quantitative Easing,’ I Say ‘Credit Easing’

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, in remarks delivered in London today, ... . In that approach, he said, “the composition of loans and securities on the asset side of the central bank’s balance sheet is incidental.” The Fed, instead, is focused on the asset side [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 17:06:00

UAVs, Continual Training Keys to US Army Aviation in the Field

Unmanned aerial vehicles like the Warrior, pictured, are mission essential to Army aviation in Iraq and Afghanistan ... vehicles are integral to mission success the panelists said.A great asset for Soldiers in rough ... commander, Task Force 49, United States Army Alaska, believes UAVs are an "incredible asset [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 14:47:00

IntelliScanner from MacWorld the Next Best Thing

IntelliScanner Corporation is no stranger to the scanner scene, ... storage. What makes the IntelliScanner mini cubed special is it offers personalized asset tags and new ... up your collections and assets in a flash. Each purchase comes with a smart, highly portable barcode scanner [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 17:57:28

Everyone wants in on the bailout gravy train, cities too

Hank Paulson may have created a monster. He has recently said that he does not want to use the TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) ... , plus $500 million worth of local and regional road work to be done and the $750 million price tag ... the Treasury Department to set aside $50 billion of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program [more...]

Date: 2008-11-15 23:29:30

Vast Under-Investment in Due Diligence

With everyone tsk-tsking the Madoff scandal — the amount lost, the after-the-fact obviousness, ... at least, when compared with the heavy lifting of equity research. The asset management ... , there are 3 separate divisions that do so: Asset Management, Investment Banking, and Institutional [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 12:30:18

Investing Rules Learned from the Bernard Madoff Scandal

The Bernie Madoff scandal is a sad case of the lack of care by the investing public ... have a diversified asset allocation!  Spread out your wealth with stocks, bonds, savings, real estate ... investment for the future? Diversify Across Different Asset Classes - This is so important [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 14:00:53

US Lawmakers Probe Alleged Multi-Billion Dollar Ponzi Scheme

A U.S. congressional committee on Monday held the first of what is expected to be numerous hearings on an alleged massive financial fraud by New ... who invested with his Wall Street asset management firm since the 1990s. According to the Securities ... York asset manager Bernard Madoff. bernard-madoff-265x300 US Lawmakers Probe Alleged Multi [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 02:27:09

TARP Is Dead… Long Live the TARP

Remember the hullabaloo over the $700 billion bailout? The bill that would by “troubled assets” from banks (hence the name). Well, guess what? ... (by injecting capital) Forced banks to write down asset values to nuclear winter levels, thus [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 12:48:17

Mark Shafir Helped Sell Lehman. Now He Is Leaving It.

Investment bankers aren’t just watching their firms die; they are arranging the funerals as well ... of Credit Suisse Americas and Credit Suisse Asset Management). Shafir is the highest-profile ... . He also advised Lehman on its acquisition of asset manager Neuberger Berman. This year, Shafir worked [more...]

Date: 2008-09-18 10:33:00

Stocks, Age and Asset Allocation

Hi All, This posting is about age and asset allocation ... this is stocks have historically outperformed other asset classes. So, when young people put their long [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 19:26:56

Citi breakup in sight after Morgan Stanley deal

Citi breakup in sight after Morgan Stanley deal  Posted by UK Economy News In UK financial news 14Jan 09 Citigroup Inc agreed to merge its Smith Barney brokerage with Morgan Stanley's wealth management unit on Tuesday, and is expected to make further asset sales to raise capital and to isolate toxic assets from the rest of the bank [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 06:29:00

how emerging markets seem to be heavily correlated with domestic markets

I've noticed over the last few months that emerging markets (mainly through index funds) ... of great than 1.0. Oddly, many discussions in asset allocation often assume that emerging ... a time when we need to rethink asset allocation classes.Regards, makingourway [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 05:37:00

FAS 2009.1 Fixed Asset Update Available Now

sage FAS 2009.1.jpg A new update to Sage FAS Fixed Asset Solution is available for download from the Sage Software site ... rules, rates and IRS forms. Provisions made to your software include, but are not limited ... , 4255, 4626 and 4797. You may also be missing other recent software enhancements that are available [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 15:21:27

Best of KCLau’s Money Tips 2008

2008 is an exciting year for me. I was able to build more income streams and therefore increase my overall income compared to the previous year ... Debt Do you have the assets to pay for your liabilities? Personal Asset Inventory Template How [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 23:00:36

UTI woos overseas Indians with new gold, equity-based fund

Even as the world grapples with a financial crisis, ... asset classes that they can add to their portfolios," Harsha Upadhyay, fund manager and vice-president of UTI Asset Management Co, said in the statement. "If one of your primary objectives is to earn [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 11:38:09

SREI Raises Benchmark Rate by 150 Basis Points.

/India PRwire/ - SREI Infrastructure Finance Limited has announced a hike in its benchmark rate (SBR) by 150 basis points to 14 ... disbursement volumes.The company already has an Asset under Management (AUM) of over Rs 8,000 crore ... .5 per cent to come into effect from July 1, 2008.The company's Asset Liability Committee (ALCO [more...]

Date: 2008-06-25 05:38:54

Yahoo said to be tapping tech veteran Bartz as new CEO

Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:02:04 -0500Yahoo said to be tapping tech veteran Bartz as new CEOYahoo is expected to name respected Silicon Valley veteran ... results, asset-management firmswill likely turn a spotlight on some of the worst-ever numbersreported by the sector, as. borne out by falling asset values,investor redemptions and declining margins [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 22:13:00

Car Talk

Car Talk by Steven D Fri Dec 12th, 2008 at 08:54:36 AM EST Place your bets ... the short term, are too great, and the asset values that would secure this new debt financing would ... of the automaker's hard assets (e.g., inventory, factories, receivables) are directly tied [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 23:43:48

10 CEOs To Go For 2009: Vikram Pandit of Citigroup (C, WFC, WB)

Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) is still in a pinch despite more than a 100% bounce from recent lows, ... up. Yet the calls for him to leave are already out in the media from more sources than ... for the magnitude of asset write-downs whether it is deserved or not. These problem assets were [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 18:13:36

Reader Mailbag #36

Each Monday, The Simple Dollar opens up the reader mailbags and answers ten to twenty simple questions offered up by the readers on personal finance ... asset like that. Even if something did go desperately wrong, you still have a big asset [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 14:00:52

The Great American Ponzi Scheme

Give us Madoff! Give us Madoff!  “Oil rises to $39 on Bernanke comments…”  “Asian stocks rise after Bernanke remarks…” When they turned out the ... troubled assets from banks, Bernanke said, another option was to provide asset guarantees under which [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 17:00:26

2008 Investment Portfolio Review: Numbers and Lessons

Vacation is over, bring on 2009! Time for a quick look back ... is an all-in-one fund with an “asset allocation strategy designed for investors currently in retirement.” For 2008 it dropped only 10.9% with an asset allocation of 5% cash, 30% stocks, and 65% bonds [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 06:32:27

Gold, Not so Golden in 2008

Gold It’s been a terrible year for most major asset classes — stocks, real estate, hedge funds, and commodities ... market turmoil because for much of the year, gold was as much a part of the craze as any other asset [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 16:07:07

Silly Canadian....Gold Isn't For Stupid Americans..............

Eric Sprott: Gold: The Go-To Asset in any Environment-- Posted Friday, 9 January 2009 Source: GoldSeek ... in the country. Managing $4.8 billion worth of hedge and mutual funds for Sprott Asset Management ... .comA 40-year, spectacularly successful veteran of the investment industry, Eric Sprott [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 02:32:00

A Free Call Option on the American Economy

From the backseat’s darkness, the hedge fund manager wasn’t talking to anyone in particular, ... society, where the leverage to risk others’ assets was more powerful than owning the actual asset [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 21:22:04

PHP - MySQL CMS App.: Constructr

Constructr is a fresh open source CMS application built with PHP & MySQL ... management Asset center for uploads Integrated search engine for asset Automatic sync after FTP ... -Like Project Management Tool: Streber Web Based Task Manager: TaskFreak! Voice Enabled Powerful Web Chat [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 17:01:57

"I WANT YOU TO SHOW HOW AWFUL SHE IS"

"I WANT YOU TO SHOW HOW AWFUL SHE IS" Posted on January 8, 2009 by Mark Ashton Divorce lies at the confluence of Character and Money; ... and it actually affects asset distribution as well. If one spouse burned through assets while [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 14:48:57

Storefront, catalog, or technology platform?

Adobe Media Player had a new release yesterday, with performance, interface, and publishing improvements. Pundits covered the press release ... workflow, from planning to asset tracking to editing to compression to distribution to analytics. We need ... recommendations... and a policy-file system which lets content creators determine where they grant [more...]

Date: 2008-07-23 19:29:02

Satyam Rub Off: Rolta, Hirco & Siemens Feel The Heat

Shareholder activism against Indian companies has seen a spike ever since the Satyam scandal broke last month ... , Rolta India CMD KK Singh said asset management major Fidelity had written to the management ... merger reduces the net asset value (NAV) of Hirco [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 12:20:53

FX Market Overview

In a new twist on divorce proceedings, a US man who donated a kidney to his wife while they were married is demanding it back ... for divorce. Her lawyers are saying a kidney is not a marital asset to be divided - Hannibal Lecter would ... for those on tracker mortgages. This strengthened the pound as a fair few commentators had expected [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 12:57:55

Wikipedia tells us that “a Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to investors out of the money paid by subsequent ... of locking him up, throwing away the key, and liquidating all his assets to the last penny so the cheated ... government has been doing for over half a century now.  I’m talking about the Social Security progra [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 00:45:27

Celebrating Sechin

In about an hour, we are expecting a foregone conclusion during an award ceremony to crown deputy prime minister Igor Sechin as ... and foreign asset management companies working in Russia has been around since 2000, and includes ... if the Association hasn't developed a new, uniquely Russian ("sovereign") definition of its stated [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 16:03:47

General Motors (GM): Still A High-Risk Profit Play

GM is essentially already bankrupt, says Horacio Marquez. And it has been for years. This clearly makes the company one to avoid for investors ... . It was October 2000, and I’d just joined a multi-billion-dollar asset management organization as its head ... , particularly after recently reading that JP Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) credit analysts [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 14:35:29

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