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		<title>4 Important Rules To Consider Before Executing Gold Trading Strategies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Investors tend to take part in gold trading even though knowing the risks involved in this type of trade. This is because of the opportunities it presents in increasing someone's investments and financial portfolio. But this is only possible if you can come up with good gold trading strategies.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/4-important-rules-to-consider-before-executing-gold-trading-strategies.html</link>
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		<title>How to Invest and Save Big Money in 2012 and Beyond</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wondering how to invest and where to invest money in mutual funds in 2012 and going forward without paying heavy sales charges, expenses, and fees? Here we spell it out for you so you can put your money to work and invest with confidence.

How much does it cost to invest $10,000 in a typical stock fund? This depends on where you invest your money. In a fund company that charges a 5% load (sales charge) it could cost you $500 up front just to invest your money. Then it could cost $200 a year for fund expenses, increasing as the value of your account grows.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/how-to-invest-and-save-big-money-in-2012-and-beyond.html</link>
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		<title>Investing for Beginners: How to Start Investing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When most people have extra money, they tend to purchase things that they don't really need. While the items they're buying may be useful, that extra hundred they just dropped on the latest in tech gadgets could be put to better use by investing.

Many people don't even consider investing because they think they need thousands of dollars to get started. Not true.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/investing-for-beginners-how-to-start-investing.html</link>
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		<title>The Great Paradox: Why Stocks Aren&#8217;t Getting Respect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Investors love to imagine their decisions are based on logic and foresight. But by using inconsistent arguments, investors have fooled themselves yet again, and created what I call the "Great Paradox."

For example, stocks have become the Rodney Dangerfield of investments: They can't get no respect. Despite corporate earnings increasing 125 percent since 2009, many investors remain skeptical of the outlook for stocks.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/the-great-paradox-why-stocks-arent-getting-respect.html</link>
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		<title>Plan Trades With Basic Trend Patterns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The basic reason for looking at a price chart is to determine the trend. At a quick glance, we can see whether the market is moving up or down. However, few realize that the real trend is determined by the pattern of rising and declining moves.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/plan-trades-with-basic-trend-patterns.html</link>
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		<title>Residual Income Through Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is residual income? Residual income is a type of income regularly received after a one time investment of money, time, and effort. When an author writes a book, he will spend time working on it. When the book has been written, he will publish it online or offline.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/residual-income-through-business.html</link>
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		<title>Online Passive Income</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past, it was beyond the imagination of everyone to make money without exerting some energy or effort. As far as we believe, fortune lies on our hand. So whenever we hear that it is now possible to earn some money online, we might surely hesitate to believe.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/online-passive-income.html</link>
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		<title>How Can an Average Person Generate Passive Income?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An average person can generate passive income in many ways. This means that it is not only the rich that can generate passive income. Everybody can but not in the same way.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/how-can-an-average-person-generate-passive-income.html</link>
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		<title>Passive Investment Income</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What are some ways a person can generate passive investment income? There are a number of ideas about it. Everyone has his own ideas about which one can be a passive investment income. We should have our own choice of investment.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/passive-investment-income.html</link>
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		<title>Benefits of Investing in Gold ETFs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The shine of the yellow metal seems to be getting brighter with every passing year. On one hand gold has successfully preserved its value and on the other, it has given investors a consistent appreciation over time. Truly, today all that glitters is gold.

With economies around the world starting to show cracks and currencies turning highly volatile, gold finds place in the portfolio of every savvy investor.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/benefits-of-investing-in-gold-etfs.html</link>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s in Control of Your Investment Money?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is your destiny, your financial future controlled by you, a family member, a financial person chosen by you or a total stranger?

In other words: Who's in control of your investments, or your retirement account, of your MONEY?

These can be scary questions especially if you think you are not qualified to manage your own retirement account, create one or invest in the stock market. The truth is, I believe almost every single person can manage their financial future. Perhaps you need a little assistance, but you can not only do it, but probably do it better than almost anyone else.

Controlling your financial future involves just a few key factors:

&#8226; Time - are you willing to spend 30 minutes a week, perhaps an hour managing and developing your financial future? Your retirement account?

Yes, this means finding 30 minutes almost every week, perhaps skipping a TV show, but the reward is equivalent to paying yourself the "big bucks".

&#8226; Method - invest some initial time to review software that can aid you with recommendations for what stocks, ETFs or mutual funds to buy and when; plus equally important when to sell and especially critical, when you should sell out and stay out of the stock market to preserve and protect your money.

The software should be flexible enough to meet your goals, your personality -conservative - moderate - aggressive.

Preferably the software shouldn't require months to learn or even a college degree.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/whos-in-control-of-your-investment-money.html</link>
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		<title>India and China Disobey Iran Oil Sanctions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Indiaand China, two powerful emerging economies have decided to defy European Union and U.S. sanctions on Iran planned to pressurize Tehran into abandoning its nuclear program.

At a press conference in Chicago on Sunday, Pranab Mukherjee told reporters that Iran remains one of the strongest contributors to India's emerging economy and drastically reducing imports from Iran would not be a feasible decision. India and China together account for 34 percent of Iran oil exports, slightly higher than Europe.

Although, Iran would be happy with this decision, it waits to be seen how the two countries cope up when it is time to pay, without offending the sanctions.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/india-and-china-disobey-iran-oil-sanctions.html</link>
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		<title>World Economy at Damage Due to Iran Tensions, Warns OPEC Chief</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OPEC chief Abdalla Salem el-Badri warned that stand off between Iran and the West could damage the world economy and oil investments. It was his most lethal warning until yet defining the escalating tensions between Iran and U.S./European Union over the contradictory assumptions on the nuclear propaganda by the Middle Eastern country.

Abdalla Salem el-Badri who is the secretary general of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries said increasing tensions between the West and Iran were putting pressure on oil prices and an impending explosive situation would turn out to be disastrous with much higher prices.

El-Badri worries for prices on oil that could shoot up beyond $150 a barrel, which would definitively pinch the already groaning world economy. As U.S.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/world-economy-at-damage-due-to-iran-tensions-warns-opec-chief.html</link>
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		<title>Defining and Investing in Your Top 5 Assets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my financial advising practice I help my clients to take inventory and check their wealth in five categories of assets that few have considered. Each of these categories represent a significant source of wealth or in some cases debt for the client. It is important to add strategies to build wealth in all five of these areas.

We start the process by defining the five asset classes and asking the client to rate the level of wealth in each account on a score of 1-10 with 10 being the highest and requiring no improvement.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/defining-and-investing-in-your-top-5-assets.html</link>
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		<title>Reasons to Invest in Silver and Skip Gold</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most people in the world today have experienced the pain of the words - national debt, inflation and credit crisis. Suddenly your hard earned savings are of little value. Financial advisors and other economic divas are propagating the wisdom of investing in other avenues such as gold at such times.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/reasons-to-invest-in-silver-and-skip-gold.html</link>
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		<title>Capital Alternatives: Climate Change Investment Strategies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Capital Alternatives: Climate change investment strategies 

Economics of the world are moving towards attaining a low carbon growth which involves reducing carbon productivity and increasing energy efficiency. The phenomenon of weather change is, scientifically, recognized as a threat to the environment, which can be reduced by controlling the emission of greenhouse gases. Today weather change is not recognized as a social responsibility but as an opportunity which can provide continued returns over the years, and institutional investors are eyeing the global climate play for diversification and secure returns.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/capital-alternatives-climate-change-investment-strategies.html</link>
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		<title>With Investments, Time Teaches Well</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember the thrill when you made your first trade and the excitement with which you followed it UP? Or, hopefully not, the disappointment as you followed it DOWN? And then, how, through the first few years of ups and downs, which, by the way, have happened to even the best of investors, you slowly learned to rein-in your emotions and dissociate them from the market. It's what I call seasoning; think of it as experiencing all of the seasons of the stock market, directly in your own portfolio, over a span on time, and it wizens you to the market over time. Well, that's what I broadly plan to touch on today; that success in investing is more than looking at prices jumping around on your computer monitor, more than a sexy story or puff piece, but a skill that is developed over time and by avoiding folly.

I'll touch on three topics.

Even the experts miss corrections and crashes

Consider the anticipation of a market crash, that great destroyer of portfolios.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/with-investments-time-teaches-well.html</link>
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		<title>What Is Quantitative Trading and Who Can Do It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is Quantitative Trading?

Quantitative trading is a term which indicates removing all human emotions from the investing or trading process. Basically have a computer system make all the decisions for you; you just pull the trigger, so to speak.

Emotions are your enemy when it comes to trading or investing in the financial markets. Fear and Greed are the two arch enemies which fuel trading.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/what-is-quantitative-trading-and-who-can-do-it.html</link>
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		<title>Three Things To Consider When Developing Silver Trading Strategies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The demand for silver continues to rise as new uses for it has been found over the years. In 1997, silver had a value of not more than $5 and it has increased six times in the last 14 years. As traders and investors came to understand the price increase of the commodity, they went into efforts on developing good silver trading strategies to enhance success when dealing with this precious metal.

Sufficient knowledge and understanding on this type of trade can produce benefits, and before you start developing silver trading strategies you must first consider three important things.

The people who make silver trading work

Trading silver can be a solution against inflation.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/three-things-to-consider-when-developing-silver-trading-strategies.html</link>
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		<title>Passive Income Opportunity in Stock Trading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Opportunities come in many forms. Some say that opportunity knocks only once. Others say it just lingers.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/passive-income-opportunity-in-stock-trading.html</link>
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		<title>Knowing Your Risk Profile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Choosing from a wide array of investment products can be somewhat confusing especially if you are not aware of what options are available to you. There are different investment options for both the conservative and aggressive investor and everyone in between. There is a connection between a product's risk and return.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/knowing-your-risk-profile.html</link>
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		<title>Fixed Rate Bonds in a Volatile Market</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are fixed rate bonds a wise option for your investment portfolio in 2012? With savings account rates scraping the bottom of the barrel, and an increasingly unpredictable stock market, fixed rate bonds can provide a happy medium for those seeking a little bit more for their money without the degree of risk associated with stock market investment - but are the fixed rates a problem?

When you purchase a fixed rate bond you receive a set rate of interest across a pre-agreed period of time in return for the loan of your capital. The fixed period is usually between 6 months and 5 years.

Your fixed interest rate is usually guaranteed unless the bond provider goes bust. The value of your capital is not normally guaranteed, so you may not get back the full amount of capital you put in.

Fixed rate bonds will often provide very competitive rates when compared to traditional savings accounts, so if you were to base your decision on current interest rates investing in fixed rate bonds can look like a very good option indeed.

What worries many is that when you take out a fixed rate bond you will usually have to make a commitment for a certain period of time.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/fixed-rate-bonds-in-a-volatile-market.html</link>
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		<title>London Bullion Market Association Reports on Silver Prices for 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the reports by the panel of expert analysts at the London Bullion Market Association, the prices on silver will not rise up to a remarkable extend as expected the same in April 2012. However, gold will display its flares in 2012 because of ongoing precious metals price prediction competition. As statistics from the competition on the prices, gold appears to touch elation unlike its counterpart the white metal.

From the analysts' forecasts, it is clear that the average silver price in 2012 was US$33.98, but it shored up to a height of $44.49 that was a consecutive predication representing a substantial 39% increase.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/london-bullion-market-association-reports-on-silver-prices-for-2012.html</link>
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		<title>Alternative Investments &#8211; Should I Have Them In My Portfolio?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Should you hold Alternative Investments in your portfolio?

So you've decided to reduce your exposure to equities in order to avoid the price volatility that seems to be driven by the latest piece of political rhetoric about national debt or economic growth. You're no longer seeing the value of your investments rise and fall by considerable margins on a daily basis, and you're sitting on a nice pile of 'safe' cash. But you probably also need to find a home for your capital where it will grow at least in line with inflation, hopefully generate some income, whilst sharing little correlation with the performance of equities, bonds and other traded financial instruments.

So now is the time you start to consider alternative investments.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/alternative-investments-should-i-have-them-in-my-portfolio.html</link>
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		<title>Are We Nearing the End of Our Oil Reserves?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although crude oil is still vastly available in the earth's crust, it is not an infinite resource. At some point it will eventually be exhausted. The demand for crude oil has increased by gigantic proportions.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/are-we-nearing-the-end-of-our-oil-reserves.html</link>
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		<title>Pros and Cons of Private Investing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Private investing is another option for people who want their money to grow over a period of time. A lot of the investment opportunities available in this area involve ideas for start-up companies that financial institutions are not willing to give a chance to. This is why private investors are also called Angel Investors because they help those budding entrepreneurs to realize their business goals.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/pros-and-cons-of-private-investing.html</link>
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		<title>Vintage Comic Books: Take Advantage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let's talk vintage comic books. How is it possible that the popularity and value of collecting these books could increase in a downward economy? How is it also possible that those popularity and value increases could happen in an age where kids are reading from computer screens versus paper products? The recent popularity growth in collecting is due to three factors: the stability of comic book reading and collecting over the long history of the hobby; the popular releases of new movies, television shows, and computer games which include vintage super heroes and villains; and the influx of new closeouts that are now available, due to collectors selling collections to compensate financial issues, caused by a weakened economy.

It is hard to argue that collecting these publications is a fly-by-night hobby. These fun publications have a long history.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/vintage-comic-books-take-advantage.html</link>
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		<title>Investing in 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When we are talking about investment, this word has been heard often enough. A lot of people or friends do not really understand what investment is and desperate to start investing without knowing the contents of their investments. Be careful.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/investing-in-2012.html</link>
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		<title>Gold Rush &#8211; Darwin NT: The Last Frontier and the Newest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Darwin is a modern, vibrant city in the top end of Australia. Tourists love visiting the top end with its best fishing, National Parks and thousands of years of indigenous culture. Darwin NT has a harbor size six times larger than Sydney harbor with 39 cruise ships visiting per year.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/gold-rush-darwin-nt-the-last-frontier-and-the-newest.html</link>
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		<title>How to Ride Out the Stock Market Storm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Even though stock markets are generally having a bad time of it at the moment, as an investor there is no need to panic unduly. There are several strategies you can adopt to ease the pain and to protect your portfolio in the current environment. Let's start with a little perspective on the situation.

At the start of 2012, it's worth looking back at 2011.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/how-to-ride-out-the-stock-market-storm.html</link>
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		<title>A Glance at the &#8220;Brokerage&#8221; Definition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At one point in our lives, we may have encountered or heard the word broker. In the past, there was a little tinge in its definition and how people look at their nature of work. At a certain point, the word "broker" was likened to individuals who take advantage on the opportunities to make money from certain individuals or companies.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/a-glance-at-the-brokerage-definition.html</link>
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		<title>The Common Sense of Earning a Passive Income</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How to Generate Passive Income

Most people agree that the key to success is diligence. They are afraid to get behind the race. These proactive people have proven to become stable in their life.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/the-common-sense-of-earning-a-passive-income.html</link>
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		<title>Are Movie Investments Really Better Than Real Estate Investments?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As recently as 2006 it was commonly heard that real estate was the safest investment you could make. But even in 2006, there were some people, known as "insiders" who were actively investing in movies. They knew about the profits others were making with real estate, yet they kept investing in movies.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/are-movie-investments-really-better-than-real-estate-investments.html</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Be Afraid to Invest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a difference between being afraid to invest and be cautious. When you are considering whether or not to buy stocks, invest in ETFs or purchase mutual funds for your financial future being afraid to act does nothing but insure that you will not be successful.

Being cautious with your investments is totally different from being afraid. Caution should be part of every investment decision.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/dont-be-afraid-to-invest.html</link>
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		<title>Alternative Investment Assets for 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the current investing climate many investors are seeking out alternatives to traditional investment assets in an effort to boost poor returns and bolster the limp performance of their pension portfolios. While stocks and shares continue to display the kind of up-and-down volatility that would make a rollercoaster jealous, real-assets including fine wine, stamps, land and forestry have all continued to grow in values as rising global incomes combine with a growing global population to boost demand against a backdrop of limited supply.

Whenever supplies of an asset are limited and demand increases, we see the value increase as buyers compete for the best assets, so those investors in control of finite resources are likely to continue to capture capital growth regardless of the performance of the wider economy.

Whilst in is certainly true that some alternative investment assets rely on the existence of wealth for their end-use market; for example stamps and fine wine rely on the existence of wealthy buyers, it is also true that certain essential assets will enjoy a demand even if the global economy were to collapse tomorrow. These safe haven alternative investments include agricultural land, energy-generating assets, infrastructure and commodity driven properties such as forestry investments.

There is a limited global stock of land suitable for agricultural production and demand for food commodities and feedstock for animal feed and biofuels in growing exponentially as developing nations expend their populace and rising incomes lead to greater consumption of commodities.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/alternative-investment-assets-for-2012.html</link>
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		<title>A Powerful Secret in Comic Investing In Order To Make Wise Comic Book Investment Choices!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year the stock market roller coaster had a lot of investors wary about investing in stocks. In a single day, investors lost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Quite a few IRA's were completely wiped out and many took nose dives.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/a-powerful-secret-in-comic-investing-in-order-to-make-wise-comic-book-investment-choices.html</link>
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		<title>Investing in Times of Uncertainty and Volatility &#8211; Part 1 From the GFC to Now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People are worried, concerned and yes, even scared. How do you invest in these volatile and uncertain times? The memories of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2008-2009 are still fresh. They themselves may have "lost" money during this period as have many of their friends.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/investing-in-times-of-uncertainty-and-volatility-part-1-from-the-gfc-to-now.html</link>
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		<title>Investing In Times Of Uncertainty And Volatility &#8211; Part 2, The Investment Decision And Consequences</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Should I switch my investment selection to cash?

People who have existing investments in superannuation or non-super investments may have the facility to switch investment options. Typically they are in a balanced or growth fund which have a high exposure to growth assets such as Australian and international shares and property.

A balanced fund typically has 60% to 75% exposure to growth assets while a growth or high growth fund may have up to 100% in growth assets with a typical asset allocation of say 50% Australian shares, 40% international shares and 10% property.

The greater the exposure to growth assets, the greater the long-term investment return however the greater is the volatility. When we talk about the risk of an asset allocation we generally do not mean that you will lose your money, but rather that the investment returns are more volatile.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/investing-in-times-of-uncertainty-and-volatility-part-2-the-investment-decision-and-consequences.html</link>
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		<title>Forestry Investments &#8211; What Affects Investment Performance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whilst forestry investments are seen by many institutional and private investors as a potential safe haven from the volatility associated with traditional asset s like equities, at the same time there are a number of variables linked to the general economy that do have a significant bearing on the performance of the asset class.

For the most part, current market demand for timber in any given location is the biggest influence over timber prices. As with any commodity, when stocks of the product are high and demand is suppressed then prices fall as assets are sold off at knockdown prices to create revenue. Likewise, when supplies are limited and demand is high, then we see the opposite happen; commodity prices rise as buyers compete for the best quality and indeed quantity.

In fact, it is worth touching on the cyclical nature of any commodity market, but especially soft-commodities.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/forestry-investments-what-affects-investment-performance.html</link>
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		<title>Collectable Investing In a Weak Economy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People get stupid in different types of economies. In a strong economy, collectable investors seem to be overly confidante and frivolous. In a weakened economy, those same investors seem to be timid and stubborn.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/collectable-investing-in-a-weak-economy.html</link>
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		<title>The Glass Is Always Full When Investing in Wine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fine wine investment market has changed dramatically in the last twenty years and is booming, even more so since Hong Kong removed a duty they had on wine, and demand has risen dramatically.

Investors look to alternatives ways to invest their money in trying times and with Asia's rapid wealth, which looks only to increase, more and more money will be invested in fine wine. Investing in wine is thriving amongst the Asian markets, especially with the increasing demand from China.

Wine is generally more stable than stock-market linked indices allowing investors to securely own a tangible asset. Wine has always held its value and the reason why Bordeaux is a worthy asset is simply down to the laws of supply and demand.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/the-glass-is-always-full-when-investing-in-wine.html</link>
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		<title>Future of Silver ETFs in 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Investors are confused about the future of silver ETFs with lots of speculations going in the market. They presume that silver and silver ETFs will slug down as a result of ups and downs in the global market. It is clearly noticeable from the market estimations that silver and silver ETFs have declined in the last weeks.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/future-of-silver-etfs-in-2012.html</link>
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		<title>Real Estate Investment Program for Passive Income</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What a Real Estate Investment Program's Passive Income Does for You

Let's talk about what a real estate investment program's passive income does for you and what you'll see in year one verses year ten.

A real estate investment program is a great vehicle for creating passive income that increases with every year because all the work that goes into the set up and maintenance of the system is managed by the program and is paid for out of your monthly rental income.

Even after paying all the monthly expenses from your real estate investment a cash flow will continue to grow from year to year just from having rent and increasing those rents. So even if you don't take into account tax benefits, the growing cash flow of passive rental income makes a real estate investment program an ideal way to secure future income that will keep on growing.

Let's take a look. When you start off in year one your monthly cash flow will be $200 or more a month.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/real-estate-investment-program-for-passive-income.html</link>
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		<title>The Future of Silver Age Comic Investing! More Comic Book Investment Advice!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There's no doubt that recent news about certain silver age key issue comics breaking sales records and going for six figures has caught the attention of the public and many investors. The question of "Are comic books good investments" have been asked many of times by new speculators in comic investing.

However, the truth is that those comic books that have sold for ridiculous prices are what's called "Pedigree Comics" in the comic book industry. That means that they are the highest graded books of a certain issue.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/the-future-of-silver-age-comic-investing-more-comic-book-investment-advice.html</link>
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		<title>4 Reasons Why You Should Be Trading Options in 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the very cool things about investing and wealth building is that there are so many ways to do it. There are thousands of simple low risk ways to make massive amounts of income. One of the most popular investment vehicles is the stock market.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/4-reasons-why-you-should-be-trading-options-in-2012.html</link>
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		<title>New Year, Same Market</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New Year began with a rally in Europe. Considering the damage Europe did to world markets last year, a rally there is certainly welcome. Unfortunately, turning the calendar page has little to do with turning the page on past conditions.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/new-year-same-market.html</link>
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		<title>The Elevation Group &#8211; What Is It?</title>
		<description><![CDATA["What is the Elevation Group?" "Why was it created and what's in it for me?" That's what I was asking myself when I heard about it. After my first Introduction, I knew it was exactly what I'd been searching for. Prior to the Elevation Group, I felt like I was on my own trying to navigate through the economic disaster in a financial ocean with a blindfold on, never knowing what or who would strike next.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/the-elevation-group-what-is-it.html</link>
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		<title>I Have 5000 to Invest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My good friend just asked me if I had any suggestions on how to invest $5000. A question that I think many people around the world are asking. So many people I know have about this much capital to invest but don't know what to do with it.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/i-have-5000-to-invest.html</link>
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		<title>Stigma Against Agencies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Landlords' frustrations against agencies

Having come across various articles, forums and comments I feel it is absolutely necessary to address several issues that have been aimed against letting agencies by various landlords over the years. I completely understand the frustration and stress that some landlords must have gone through while dealing with a letting agency, although that should not be the reason not to trust every other agency and not considering an option of having your property managed by an agency again.

Being a landlord is not as easy as some may think, especially if you are only starting to build your portfolio and are still in a process of learning the legal aspects of renting the property. At the same time you want your property to be occupied by serious, respectable and fair tenants.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/stigma-against-agencies.html</link>
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		<title>Agriculture Investments &#8211; The Effect of Commodity Prices on Farmland Investments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Agricultural Productivity and Commodity Prices

This article covering the effect of commodity prices on agriculture investments has been produced for the purpose of providing quality reference material for the prospective Investor considering the sector, specifically for the Investor wishing to better understand to relationship and influence of commodity prices and agricultural productivity in agriculture investments.

Investors are attracted to the agriculture sector for a number of reasons; not least the undeniable fundamental trends of growing demand and contracting supply likely to drive higher asset prices and revenues in the future. Farm revenues at the very basic level are a combination of agricultural yield multiplied by commodity prices, so to better understand the performance of this asset class, we should look at commodity prices and productivity in a historical context in an effort to ascertain whether higher prices are here to stay, or part of a longer term price cycle.

At present, humankind utilises approximately 50 per cent of accessible, productive land for agriculture. Put another way, half of the Earth's surface that is not desert, water, ice or some other such unusable space such as urbanised areas is used to grow crops.

With current emphasis firmly upon increasing productivity to meet current and future demand for food, feed and fuel from an expanding, wealthier global population, the fact that we only use half of the usable global stock of farmland indicates that we should be able to simply bring more land under agricultural cultivation through the application of well-placed infrastructure and technology investments.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/agriculture-investments-the-effect-of-commodity-prices-on-farmland-investments.html</link>
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		<title>The Best Low Risk Investments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before you can go on to make your millions, there are two key things you need to consider in order to keep more of your hard earned money. There is a reason professional athletes and lottery winners lose ALL their money within two years. They fail to understand two simple concepts.

I like to teach my students that it is possible to make money without money, although most people you know probably told you otherwise.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/the-best-low-risk-investments.html</link>
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		<title>Choosing the Right Investment Product for You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of different investment products available for people with different investment needs. Fund managers and firms offering financial services offer a diverse array of investment options that would suit each individual's investment needs. These products range from the more conservative, fixed-earnings investments to the more aggressive ventures such as stocks and everything else in between.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/choosing-the-right-investment-product-for-you.html</link>
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		<title>3 Alternative Investment Strategies for 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As stock markets and bond markets continue to display the sort of volatility that causes Investors to break out into a cold sweat, many are starting to investigate real-asset alternatives to traditional financial assets in an effort to identify opportunities to capture growth and income that is not wholly reliant on the performance of financial markets or the general economy.

There is certainly an increasing appetite for real-asset alternative investments, from fine wine and art, through to land and collectibles, yet a lack of credible performance data and regulation leave many at a loss as to where might be a suitable home for their hard-earned savings in the alternative investment space.

Whilst assets like fine wine and art rely almost entirely on the wealthy as an end market, growing economies in developing nations are creating a super-size middle class which is consuming more resources and consumables such as food, fuel, cars and energy at an astonishing rate, creating a huge spike in demand that shows no sign of abating, creating investable opportunities for savvy Investors able to identify those areas where demand is strong and fundamental limits in the supply chain create short, mid and,long-term value growth for those in control of such assets.

Here are a few examples of real-asset alternative investments that have displayed some extremely desirable characteristics such as capital preservation and a hedge against inflation throughout the last four years of economic turmoil.

Renewable Energy Investments

As populations continue to expand, natural energy resources continue to diminish, international legislation combined with government incentives create profitable opportunities for those in control of energy-producing assets that do not depend on the input of natural resources and therefore generate energy - which can be sold at a profit - during any economic climate.

In the UK, government backed feed in tariffs (FiT) creates opportunity as energy companies must purchase any electricity you generate and feed into the grid. So those in control of solar panels, wind turbines and other energy-producing assets capture market-beating income of between 10% and 20% per annum for up to 25 years. No income-generating financial assets share dividends or bonds can do that.

Forestry Investments

Timber, when considered as an alternative investment asset class is quite unique, not only does the price of timber rise over time - usually at or above the rate of inflation, at the same time trees continue to grow into larger assets with more timer to sell per tree.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/3-alternative-investment-strategies-for-2012.html</link>
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		<title>Profitable Trading: Defining Your Trading Float</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In defining your money management rules in order to start trading, the first step should be deciding on your trading float. This is the amount of money you have to trade with. Before you set the exact amount, it is important to define your objectives in trading.

You need to be clear on the amount of time you have available to spend trading.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/profitable-trading-defining-your-trading-float.html</link>
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		<title>10 Ways to Find Money For Investing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You are searching for money to invest with and you begin by looking at your personal finances. How much money do you have left over after you pay your bills? Do you have funds left that you are able to risk in an investment? Below are some ways to find money that you can use to invest.

&#8226; Check out your own budget. Every pay period people have money they throw away and not even miss it.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/10-ways-to-find-money-for-investing.html</link>
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		<title>Run Your Stock Market Trading Strategy Through This 3 Question Filter for Greater Success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Any stock market trading strategy much be looked at critically and objectively before it is employed in the market. A seemingly perfect trading strategy often fails because the traders does adequately understand the strategy or them self. By asking the following three questions in regards to our trading strategy we are more likely find a strategy that works for us personally, not wasting our time and money on something which stands little chance of bringing in profits.

These questions can actually be employed for any situation, not just trading.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/run-your-stock-market-trading-strategy-through-this-3-question-filter-for-greater-success.html</link>
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		<title>Hedge Funds &#8211; Are These Lucrative Investment Options?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The point of a hedge is to make money for clients regardless of market direction. Hedge funds will buy and hold stocks, they will sell short, as well as buy and sell options. These particular funds differ from most traditional funds, which adhere to the buy and hold concept.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/hedge-funds-are-these-lucrative-investment-options.html</link>
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		<title>Knowing How to Invest During Inflation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Inflation is something we all need to be worrying about in this time of economic downfall. We are not able to get ahead or stay afloat when something that would cost one hundred dollars ends up costing us three hundred dollars over 30 yrs. How do we battle for our future? What things can we do to save money?

When we look at ways to invest our money we start by thinking in terms of savings accounts and money market accounts.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/knowing-how-to-invest-during-inflation.html</link>
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		<title>What Is The Best Investment For 2012?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Right now many investors are confused about the economy and want to know how to make their money work for them in 2012. It is no easy feat considering many are losing their jobs, unemployment is sky high and the economy is very sketchy.

Many analysts believe that 2012 is going to be a very volatile year, and the market is already showing clear signs that it will be a bumpy year ahead. You just have to look at some of the stats from the end quarter of 2011.

Despite what the pundits are saying, people seem to be flocking back to gold.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/what-is-the-best-investment-for-2012.html</link>
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		<title>How Long Does It Take to Make Money As a Mystery Shopper?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mystery shopping can be a fun way to get free cash for giving your opinion on a product or service. Mystery shopping can be even more fun if you have a good understanding of how and when you will get paid.

I became a mystery shopper and online survey taker because I made a promise to my readers that whatever strategy or product I recommended, I would either do extensive research OR I would personally try that strategy myself to see if it was really possible to make money from it.

I think by writing about strategies I have first hand experiences with, it allows me to give you a better idea of what works and what does not. Actually, I have also been learning about some interesting things in the process.

What I learned

I initially thought that the way to do a shop was that you had to go to a store, purchase something (food, membership, oil change etc) and then write a report about your experience.

I recently found two pretty cool things about being a mystery shopper

1 - You can do phone mystery shops

I completed my first phone assignment in December of 2011 and all I had to do was call two housing communities and ask them about their incentives.

The cool part about this is that the mystery shop service connected the call and recorded everything, so I did not even have to write a report afterwards.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/how-long-does-it-take-to-make-money-as-a-mystery-shopper.html</link>
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		<title>What Type of Trading Should You Do in 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are and will always be many investment options available to you. some of these methods will make you a lot of money and some methods will continue destroy dreams of financial freedom because of their extremely complex nature. For 2012, I am going to share the method that will give you "at least" an 80% chance of being profitable.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/what-type-of-trading-should-you-do-in-2012.html</link>
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		<title>The Role of the Investment Advisor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The person who often assists a company by guiding them through the different procedures and techniques of investment, in return for compensation, is an investment advisor. Their role is to help guide companies and give them all the necessary information about an investment before the company enters the stock market. There are different kinds of investments from purchasing and selling of shares in the stock market to other security transactions.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/the-role-of-the-investment-advisor.html</link>
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		<title>Five Ways to Become a Successful Wealth Manager</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For any investment company looking to increase their investment or financial gain, they might need to look towards richer, wealthier clients to give that boost to their company. One way of doing this is by using wealth management. This can mean hiring a professional group to help look after issues such as financial and investment planning and insurance services whilst maintaining a good level of communication with clients and customers.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/five-ways-to-become-a-successful-wealth-manager.html</link>
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		<title>Independent Investment Advisor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An independent investment advisor is someone who will help you with your long-term investment goals. They will handle all types of investing, which is usually done to plan for retirement. The earlier you get started on retirement planning the better, but in a lot cases, younger adults don't think about these things.

The mentality of "I have plenty of time" is common among young people, yet if they took the time to get started early, it becomes a way of life that they don't really even have to think about and by the time they reach retirement, they have a huge nest egg that can be the difference between struggling as an elderly person, or having a life that is stress free financially.

Independent investment advisors are trained in many aspects of investing.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/independent-investment-advisor.html</link>
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		<title>How to Hire a Wealth Manager</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is normal for individuals and families that are affluent to have a wealth manager. Wealth managers are no different from other financial professionals except they are normally trusted to manage more than wealth. Some functions of a wealth manger are tax planning and preparation, avoiding losses, increasing growth, recommending financial decisions and overseeing investments.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/how-to-hire-a-wealth-manager.html</link>
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		<title>Can You Make Money With Passive Income in a Down Real Estate Market?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many ways to make money in any kind of market. Currently the real estate market is in a slump but there are still a few ways to make money, and lot's of it.

Foreclosures

Although the real estate market is in a slump and foreclosures are on the rise, there has never been a better time to invest foreclosures.

With foreclosures you can buy property for as little as $0.60 or $0.70 on the dollar. That is a discount of bout 70% from market values.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/can-you-make-money-with-passive-income-in-a-down-real-estate-market.html</link>
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		<title>Lauding Those That Are Better Off</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I shot off an email to the staff at Stansberry Radio to thank them for their new series of podcasts. And that email got me to thinking about how I feel with regards to folks like Porter, Peter Schiff, Jim Sinclair, Eric Sprott, Mike Maloney, Rick Rule, Gerald Celente and James Turk.

It got me thinking about how I would NEVER be able to sit one on one with any of them and ask questions. I'm not about to be invited to dinner or brought into a conference call or sent an email looking for my advice.

And whether you agree with them or not isn't the issue.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/lauding-those-that-are-better-off.html</link>
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		<title>Start Investing for Passive Income &#8211; Creativity Required</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are two sayings I live by

1 - Money is just an idea, people who lack money simply lack ideas. 2 - Wherever there is a will there is a way, if you can't find a way....you're just not willing enough.

Living by these words has greatly helped me in my investment career. No matter how well you plan for something, you should expect that you will have some challenges along the way.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/start-investing-for-passive-income-creativity-required.html</link>
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		<title>Best Investment Ideas and Best Safe Investments for 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here we list some of the best investment ideas and tackle the challenge of finding the best safe investments for 2012. What might appear to be one of the best investment ideas to the uninformed could turn out to be one of the worst.

Looking at the big picture for investment ideas in 2012, moderation in asset allocation and a balanced investment portfolio will be the most basic key to success. There are 4 asset classes, and average investors need to spread their money across at least the first three to keep their overall portfolio risk moderate.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/best-investment-ideas-and-best-safe-investments-for-2012.html</link>
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		<title>Where To Invest in 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the coming of the new year it is time to look back at what worked and what didn't work with your investments. With the high level of ups and downs in the global markets, here are your keys to success for 2012 if you are serious about wealth creation.

Look for low risk strategies.

First and foremost, steady does it in the game of building wealth. In certain markets, it is OK to swing for the fence on every try, but eventually this will catch up to you.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/where-to-invest-in-2012.html</link>
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		<title>Investment Basis: What To Invest In 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to making long range investment goals for your future many first time investors want to jump in head first without having any prior knowledge of what they are doing. Eventually and unfortunately many of these investors never become successful investors and usually just give up. Investing in itself does require some level of skill and it takes time coupled with your ability to learn.

It is important to understand and remember that every investment that you make is not a sure thing in itself.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/investment-basis-what-to-invest-in-2012.html</link>
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		<title>Preserving Data Integrity and Quality With A Data Management Software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many variables that contribute to the downfall of a certain company and one of them is failing to maintain data integrity and quality. All establishments, before beginning their operation must have a system that can offer maintenance, protection and security to data. You must consider this as the highest priority if you wish to operate a smooth running business.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/preserving-data-integrity-and-quality-with-a-data-management-software.html</link>
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		<title>Are You Secure With Your Market Data Provider?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Numerous sources online for market data have made it possible for us to catch up to the constant market variations. These data are basis for our analysis in order to come up with better and wise investment and trading decisions. Real-time data has even enabled you to react quickly to market alterations by receiving data instantly after being collected.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/are-you-secure-with-your-market-data-provider.html</link>
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		<title>How To Be More Effective In Financial Data Analysis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you want to find a way to make financial data analysis convenient, faster and accurate? Our decisions and actions in our businesses often depend on the information we have. Aside from accuracy and speed, a clear presentation of the data can provide you understanding on what is really happening. Shareholders' and companies are aware of the tools that can assist them in analysis.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/how-to-be-more-effective-in-financial-data-analysis.html</link>
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		<title>Why You Must Learn Market Volatility Today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An investor and trader must be able to define market volatility in order to produce a profitable trading strategy. The market is always changing and often you will find it difficult to monitor all market activities. To develop the best trading decision you need to comprehend the timing of different markets especially those that have a big influence on your trades and those in which you are doing trade.

These various markets are affected by various market situations.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/why-you-must-learn-market-volatility-today.html</link>
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		<title>How to Invest in a Movie &#8211; What to Look For</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can you make money investing in movies? Is movie investing risky? What are the hazards, and what should one look out for when investing in a movie? These questions and more will be answered in this article.

Yes, you can make money investing in a movie. And here is a surprising fact: It is easier to make money with a low budget movie, than with a big budget movie. Of course the big blockbuster movies make the headlines, and make a lot of money sometimes.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/how-to-invest-in-a-movie-what-to-look-for.html</link>
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		<title>The Consumer Price Index AKA Inflation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm sure many of you have heard of the Consumer Price Index, or CPI as it's commonly called. And you'd probably heard about it because CPI data is published every month by the U.S. government's Bureau of Labor Statistics and is reported on heavily by financial and general interest news channels.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/the-consumer-price-index-aka-inflation.html</link>
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		<title>Investing &#8211; The Differences Between Options and Stocks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most people think of trading options as a substitute for trading stocks in the stock market. Stock options represent massive leverage and allow small time investors like you and me to reap huge profits from stocks that we would not normally be able to buy. With stock options it is possible to get gains of 400% (even more) on an underlying stock that had a price movement of only 5 or 10%.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/investing-the-differences-between-options-and-stocks.html</link>
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		<title>How to Grow Wealthy in 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Probably the second most common New Year's resolution is to do better with finances (the top one is to lose weight). If one is looking to lose weight, obviously it is better to get advice from that friend who lost 50 pounds and kept it off than to ask the one who is overweight and keeps going on yo-yo diets. With making and keeping money, the people to follow are the wealthy who hold onto money - not the friend with the fancy car who is up to debt to his eyeballs.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/how-to-grow-wealthy-in-2012.html</link>
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		<title>Is It Time To Prudently Invest Money Again?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You really want to be optimistic and invest to seize opportunities and grow. Yet, how can you prudently move forward to do that?

The new normal analogy has been to drive with one foot on the accelerator and one foot on the brakes. Having one foot on the accelerator gives you the option to selectively invest in the opportunities which are always available to those who have quick access to people, money and capacity.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/is-it-time-to-prudently-invest-money-again.html</link>
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		<title>Massive Wealth Building With Passive Income</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Passive income is a way by which someone makes money without constantly having to work to get it. With a typical 9-5 job you are paid for the hours you work, I you don't work you don't get paid. With passive income you have the possibility of making money 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/massive-wealth-building-with-passive-income.html</link>
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		<title>What Is the CAPM or Capital Asset Pricing Model?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The CAPM is a model used to determine an investor's "expected return," or how much percentage profit that a company investor should logically demand as a "fair" return for investing in a company.

To find this, another question may be asked: How much is the logical "fair" percentage return that an investor should get if he invests in an individual company (with relatively high risk) instead of putting his money in government bonds which are assumed to be "risk free" and instead of putting his money in the general stock market assumed to have "medium" risk?

Obviously, it's only "fair" that that the investor gets a return of higher than the government bond rate (because the individual company has higher risk). It's also only fair that he should expect a return higher than the general stock market return, because the individual company has higher risk than the "medium risk" general stock market. So again, how much exactly should this investor fairly earn as a minimum expected return?

This is where the CAPM or Capital Asset Pricing Model comes in.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/what-is-the-capm-or-capital-asset-pricing-model.html</link>
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		<title>Best Moves to Make: Top 5 Investment Club Strategies For 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally we are in 2012 and the door is knocking for the best place to invest money this year. This year has a lot of financial opportunities that you can tap in and earn more money than you expected. As we all know every year we tend to invest some part of our cash or money in the best places for maximum returns.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/best-moves-to-make-top-5-investment-club-strategies-for-2012.html</link>
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		<title>Why You Need To Comprehend Regression And Correlation Analysis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How often do we use regression and correlation analysis in our lives? People can relate a well-groomed entrepreneur to someone being financially successful. You guess that the energy you feel when you wake up early in the morning depends on how early you went to sleep the night before. A parent assumes that the more chocolate or sweets his/her child consumes, the more energetic his/her child is.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/why-you-need-to-comprehend-regression-and-correlation-analysis.html</link>
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		<title>The Complications And Benefits Of Reference Data Management</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People who are in the field of managing data agree that in the world of data, reference data is difficult to control. Nevertheless, info such as dollar sales or revenue that traders or users search for are insubstantial without the details provided by this data. Reference data management can be complicated yet is very important since it creates a structure of reference to information, which then provides meaning and substance to that information.

This data presents an image of data-based object selection categorization schemes.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/the-complications-and-benefits-of-reference-data-management.html</link>
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		<title>The Development Of Real-Time Market Data</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Present financial service providers are constantly faced with the challenge of providing you quality service due to constant market fluctuations. A service that can consistently give you accurate real-time market data allows you to respond and react quickly to changes in the market. Constant improvement and innovation on their services are being made to accommodate your needs.

Unlike some current service providers, previous services had many failures and difficulties constructing real-time market data in past versions of Excel.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/the-development-of-real-time-market-data.html</link>
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		<title>An Effective Interpretation Of The Yield Curve Chart Can Help You In Your Investment Decisions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not all interest rates move together since the rates in bonds have varying maturity levels that are independent from each other. Often, long-term rates and short-term rates move in adverse directions concurrently. You need to determine the entire pattern of the directions of interest rate movements.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/an-effective-interpretation-of-the-yield-curve-chart-can-help-you-in-your-investment-decisions.html</link>
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		<title>What Makes Historical LIBOR Rates Significant?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Financial institutions in London had an increasing demand for a benchmark for lending rates at the beginning of the nineteen eighties. This benchmark was specially needed to compute prices for financial items such as interest swaps and options. The British Bankers' Association (BBA) took responsibility in 1984 which then led to the dissemination of the first LIBOR interest rates.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/what-makes-historical-libor-rates-significant.html</link>
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		<title>Does Dealing With Reference Data Make You Feel Uneasy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is such an irony that the same IT professionals that concluded that reference data isn't that complicated or difficult are those that feel uneasy even fearful when actually dealing with this data. This is usually the case when you underestimate the simplicity of the structure of this data. This data is highly influenced all over the databases and mismanagement can lead to devastating results.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/does-dealing-with-reference-data-make-you-feel-uneasy.html</link>
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		<title>What Makes LIBOR Historical Rates Important To Consumers?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some market contributors have the history of questioning the uprightness of the U.S dollar Libor fixing system yet this system still continues to prove as an accurate source of measurement for conventional credit worthy bank's marginal cost of unprotected U.S term funding. Though LIBOR rates are situated in the United Kingdom, a lot of consumers need to learn how they operate since LIBOR Historical Rates can be used as a basis in the pricing of numerous types of consumer loans.

LIBOR is defined as the average interest rate at which certain group of banks that are active in the London interbank money market can lend unconstrained funds from one another. The interest rates these banks charge each other can be overnight, one month, three month, six month and one year loan.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/what-makes-libor-historical-rates-important-to-consumers.html</link>
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		<title>Things To Remember When Relying On Correlation Analysis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many instances that companies make use of correlation analysis. This tool is useful for determining the relationship between two variables. A company may want to know the relationship between the total number of salespeople to the total number of sales or the price of gold to the current dollar rate.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/things-to-remember-when-relying-on-correlation-analysis.html</link>
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		<title>Silver&#8217;s Price Manipulation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Each bar of silver that backs paper traded funds such as EFT's is most assuredly without question registered to more than one owner, The fact is a lot of insiders claim there are many owners registered to each individual bar, that is being used to back all the paper traded securities being sold to investors.

Here is one example of how market giants can manipulate prices. To get into this manipulation game actually requires ten contracts that allow you to become a market maker. Let's just say I acquired 50 one-thousand ounce bars and they are actually mine.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/silvers-price-manipulation.html</link>
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		<title>Best Way to Make Money Trading Options</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You might be VERY surprised to know that the best way to make money trading options is not necessarily the quickest way. It's true, and it is a lesson that I learned over and over again as i tried to build wealth in the stock market. It is also a lesson that I came to appreciate as I realized that strategies that add passive residual streams of income to your life are the kinds of strategies you want to invest your time and energy into.

With that being said, there are two main ways to make money with options trading and the stock market.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/best-way-to-make-money-trading-options.html</link>
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		<title>Why You Should Invest in Passive Residual Income</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The main point of investing is to make extra money. But, you might be surprised to know that there are many other reasons why someone would and should want to invest in passive residual income. Here are the main reasons why people invest in general and why I personally think investing in passive income is so important.

Maintaining Wealth

People that have a lot of money know that they will need to continue making money to support their lifestyle and to maintain their wealth.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/why-you-should-invest-in-passive-residual-income.html</link>
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		<title>How Long Does It Take to Make Money Trading Options?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many many options trading strategies out there. There is a strategy for every possible scenario you can think of. There are strategies that are for generative passive income, and there are strategies that fall into the category of active income.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/how-long-does-it-take-to-make-money-trading-options.html</link>
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		<title>Are Movie Investments Recession Proof?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During recessions, people still want to invest, and they start looking for businesses and investments that can still be profitable when people have less money to spend. And many people have heard how during the Great Depression of the 1930's that movies were very profitable. It is actually true, and there are reasons for it which will be explained in this article.

When the economy is in a slump, people want to escape their worries, and a movie is an affordable way to do just that.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/are-movie-investments-recession-proof.html</link>
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		<title>MT760 Explained &#8211; MT760 at a Glance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are so many different procedures in the world of finance and investing that it can be hard to keep track of all the different ones used. For many, having an MT760 explained to them is important since this type of procedure can have many consequences, sometimes positive and sometimes very negative. If you're trying to learn more about an MT760 or are somehow involved in one, there are a few basic things to understand.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/mt760-explained-mt760-at-a-glance.html</link>
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		<title>Two of the Best Ways to Make $600 in Passive Income Per Month</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a game plan to invest $5,000 that will give you at least 10% return on your money in a matter of weeks. My goal with this article is to show you how you can make a passive income of $500 (or more) in one month or less. Here we go, let's do this!

Passive income idea 1 Take $2,500 and buy two websites (that are already making money) from FLIPPA.

Most of the websites listed for sale can be sorted by earnings and price.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/two-of-the-best-ways-to-make-600-in-passive-income-per-month.html</link>
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		<title>Why Invest in Art?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When we invest in anything, we are attempting to maximize our return on that investment, given some level of acceptable risk. All financial investments involve a balance between return and risk. Investing in art is no different.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/why-invest-in-art.html</link>
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		<title>Factors to Be Considered When You Wish to Build a Swiftlet House</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Being a delicacy in Chinese cuisine, bird nest soup is made of edible bird nests that are produced by swiftlets. As trading of bird nest is a lucrative business, swiftlet ranching, building a swiftlet house, has been thriving in countries like Malaysia and Indonesia.

To build a swiftlet house, you need to consider the following factors:-

1. Availability of swiftletFirst, and foremost, you must check the area where you wish to build a bird house, see whether there are swiftlets.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/factors-to-be-considered-when-you-wish-to-build-a-swiftlet-house.html</link>
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		<title>What Job Makes the Most Money?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What jobs make the most money? The best way to answer this question would be to take a look at the most successful people in the world and see what they all have in common.

I will make it easy for you and narrow it down to the top five or so that are reported yearly in the Forbes magazine. You will find that there are three things these successful people all have in common.

1 - They are business owners (this would be the top job to have)

What this should tell you is that you will not make mega millions by punching the clock every day. If you are truly serious about being successful and building massive wealth, the first thing you should be thinking about doing it getting out of the rat race that is the 9-5 job.

The second thing you should be thinking about is starting a business that fills a need (i.e.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/what-job-makes-the-most-money.html</link>
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		<title>Junk Bonds &#8211; An Overview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you're an investor then the odds are that you have more than a few bonds in your portfolio. But while there are plenty of different options out there, one of the most misunderstood types of commodities are junk bonds. Their name certainly suggests that they're hardly worth your effort, but in some cases you may very well be able to benefit from them.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/junk-bonds-an-overview.html</link>
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		<title>Investing in Telecommunications &#8211; Technology and Your Money</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you start looking through the various options available for investment opportunities, you'll quickly see that there are more choices than most realize. Investing in telecommunications is one of the smartest bets out there, although it may take a large investment to see any real returns. Many telecommunications companies have already reached very high values, but others are relatively low and climbing quickly.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/investing-in-telecommunications-technology-and-your-money.html</link>
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		<title>Investing in Screenplay and Film Production &#8211; A Unique Option</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Investors are one of the driving forces behind nearly every aspect of our society. From technological advances to medicine, from new products to new music studios, there's no end to the different things that investors help create. While an idea may be groundbreaking, without the funds it will never come to fruition.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/investing-in-screenplay-and-film-production-a-unique-option.html</link>
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		<title>Investing in Medicine &#8211; A Smart Bet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Take a quick look at the job market today and you'll likely spot one or two industries that are showing no signs of slowing down in growth. The medical field is among the most dependable, fastest growing industry in the nation and is expected to remain that way. For that reason and several others, investing in medicine may be a very smart bet.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/investing-in-medicine-a-smart-bet.html</link>
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		<title>Investing in Hydropower &#8211; Worth Considering?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Investing isn't just about heading to Wall Street anymore. Today, there are so many different investment opportunities that it can actually boggle the mind. While it's certainly out of some price ranges, reviewing a bit of information could help you see that investing in hydro-power is a good option for your investment dollars.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/investing-in-hydropower-worth-considering.html</link>
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		<title>Is Derivative Trading A Good Option?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As an investor your objectives are to lessen risks and increase returns. A popular risk management tool called derivatives is said to increase the capability to differentiate risk. It is also said to be a procedure that has surely improved the way of living as well as national productivity growth.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/is-derivative-trading-a-good-option.html</link>
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		<title>How Can Value at Risk in Excel Increase Your Efficiency in Managing Risks?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finding ways to lessen risk has been very important not only to private investors and traders but also to small, medium and large corporations. Value at risk or VAR is well-known and used by regulators, practitioners and academics to aid them in understanding and managing risk. A lot prefers to use Value at Risk in Excel since it provides tools for calculation as well as it is an organized way of presenting information.

By definition, value at risk measures the probable loss in value of a risky portfolio or asset over a given period of a specified confidence interval.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/how-can-value-at-risk-in-excel-increase-your-efficiency-in-managing-risks.html</link>
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		<title>Five Tips for Growing Your Capital</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The purpose of a growth investment is to grow your capital over a period of time, allowing you to take away a larger pot of money than you started with. However, it's not always as simple as that and there will be an element of risk to your funds, but investing for growth can prove to be a very satisfying way to make your money work harder.

A quick word on risk:

Generally speaking the higher the level of risk involved in your chosen investment the higher the rate of interest you are likely to see. Some investments will be more risky than others and you should think carefully about the level of risk you can afford to take before you start investing.

Five Steps:

1) Choose wisely.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/five-tips-for-growing-your-capital.html</link>
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		<title>Forex Trading and How to Avoid Bogus Investment Offers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wherever there's a chance to make large sums of money there will be scams designed to rob people of their hard earned cash, and Forex trading is no exception. Experienced investors recognise most scams and avoid them, unlike newcomers to Forex trading who more easily fall victim to scamsters. Governments and consumer watchdogs worldwide warn people to be wary of scams promising massive profits from tiny investments, and offer the following tips to help keep this particular areas of the investment business safe for all:

* Be suspicious of high profit, low risk offers.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/forex-trading-and-how-to-avoid-bogus-investment-offers.html</link>
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		<title>What Is the Antiques Investment Market Doing Today?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a funny saying I heard today defining economics. It is the science of explaining tomorrow why the predictions you made yesterday didn't come true.

Well the art and antiques market isn't necessarily as volatile as some financial sectors, but like all businesses, encounters constantly changing trends. This makes it very difficult to predict what investments will perform better than others.

It seems to me that for many folk, having art and antiques in your investment portfolio can mean different things to different people.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/what-is-the-antiques-investment-market-doing-today.html</link>
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		<title>New Economy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new economy is coming sooner than later.

I am not predicting the end of the world but an end to the American dollar domination.

I have been very disappointed in the returns on my investments and after much reflection I have come to the following conclusion. After following the stories on the gloomy economic markets I believe there will be a currency crisis followed by a shift in wealth. Naturally I want my family and myself to be on the winning side.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/new-economy.html</link>
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		<title>Broker Stops Vs Strategy Stops</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How do you protect your investments with stops? This is a good question. Should you sell your mutual funds, ETFs or stocks only when a strategy says so, even if it is a strategy updated weekly or monthly? Or should you set stops with your broker following the same stop rules as in your strategy, but letting them activate whenever necessary?

I usually set the stops with my online broker and if they execute mid-week on my weekly strategies, I simply wait until the weekend to get the signal of what action to take from my investment analysis software This way I am protected from major losses. This doesn't work well, however if you set stops that are really tight, like one or two percent, because a fund, ETF or stock can rebound that amount when the markets are topsy turvey.

Let me give you an example: let's say that my investment program recommended buying EWD and VALU.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/broker-stops-vs-strategy-stops.html</link>
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		<title>A Near Perfect Investment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What makes a near perfect investment? Typically an investor is looking for three things in a quality investment that has a low-cost of entry. I've added two other criteria to look for in a near perfect investment.

1. Growth - that the investment can provide growth beyond what the investor has put into the investment.

2.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/a-near-perfect-investment.html</link>
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		<title>What Is Ethical Investing?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an age where environmentalism and social responsibility have become a part of the mainstream consciousness, there has been a change within financial markets. The bottom line is no longer the sole decision making factor that investors typically take into account. A recent trend has been to invest in companies that align with your own personal set of beliefs.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/what-is-ethical-investing.html</link>
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		<title>Why Investors Should Opt for Collective Investments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The most popular type of investments that people make are in collective investment schemes. This makes a lot of sense as it reduces risk for the investor.

Collective investments are funds where the monies of a large number of investors are pooled together under professional investment management. The investment manager then acts collectively on their behalf.

The most popular collectives are unit trusts, investment trusts and Open Ended Investment Companies (OEICs).]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/why-investors-should-opt-for-collective-investments.html</link>
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		<title>The Cantillon Effect: Tall Buildings As an Economic Indicator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometime in the very early 1800s, a Manhattan carpenter named Lozier came to the somewhat startling conclusion that the city in which he lived was dangerously lopsided and had too many taller buildings on its lower end. If any more structures went up, he warned the city, the island would sink into the Hudson River.

To head off this expected calamity, Lozier suggested to the city's mayor that a chunk of Manhattan's northern end be hacked off, towed down the Hudson, and then attached to the southern tip. This, Lozier explained, would redistribute the island's weight and ensure no further sinking.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/the-cantillon-effect-tall-buildings-as-an-economic-indicator.html</link>
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		<title>Why You Need A Good Real Time Trading Software Tool</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are a real-time trader for global stocks, you will need to have trading software that will help you to quickly and effectively find opportunities that meet your criteria. The market is fascinating but this doesn't mean that you will become a millionaire in one night without taking wise steps. The important thing that you will need is information.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/why-you-need-a-good-real-time-trading-software-tool.html</link>
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		<title>Agriculture Investment &#8211; The Effect of Rising Incomes on Real Asset Values</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As existing populations in developing economies become richer, they shift towards a higher protein, more resource intensive diet, and millions of new meat eaters come to the table annually. This dietary shift is driven primarily by rising household incomes. On average annual incomes are forecast to rise by just under 300%from US$ 5,300 to US$ 16,000 by 2050 (Alexandratos, N.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/agriculture-investment-the-effect-of-rising-incomes-on-real-asset-values.html</link>
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		<title>How To Evaluate The Risks In Peer To Peer Loan Investments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Prosper.com and The Lending Club make it possible for individuals to invest in private, unsecured loans taken out by individual borrowers. An unsecured loan is, by its very nature risky. Prosper investing and Lending Club investing take some of the risk out of the equation by allowing the investor to choose loans and risk levels.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/how-to-evaluate-the-risks-in-peer-to-peer-loan-investments.html</link>
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		<title>Agricultural Investments for a Long Term Profitable Investment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Investment is a way to secure a future for yourself, your family and your business. However, there are many investment opportunities, ranging from short and long term monetary investments, property, vehicles, bullion and gold, among many others. However, the global financial markets have been unstable over the past few years in response to the worldwide economic downturn.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/agricultural-investments-for-a-long-term-profitable-investment.html</link>
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		<title>Getting Started in Investment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Understanding investment

Investment can seem like an attractive option for increasing return on your capital, especially when interest rates on savings accounts are so low.

Whether you are looking to invest yourself, or for someone to invest your cash on your behalf, there are several factors you should consider before you begin.

How much can you afford to invest? 

It is important to recognise that when you begin investing your money you will introduce an element of risk to your capital. Generally the higher the potential for return the higher the risk to your capital, so don't be sucked in by high rates but consider carefully how the investment would sit with your attitude to risk.

Before you start investing you should ensure that you finances are in order and that you are not investing with money that you can afford to risk losing. For example, will you be able to pay all your debts easily? Do you have a buffer of savings to fall back on? Many experts recommend that you have the equivalent of at least three months wages to fall back on in case of hard times.

Why are you investing?

Before deciding on the right investment option for you, you should have some sort of financial goal in mind.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/getting-started-in-investment.html</link>
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		<title>Consumers More Likely to Spur Change Than International Agreements</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leaders from two hundred nations came together this week in Durban, South Africa, for the 17th annual United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Kyoto Protocol - the climate change pact, which has been the most comprehensive agreement to date - is due to expire next year, and it has to be replaced by a new agreement.

Much debate and negotiations are currently under way at the conference. International leaders are trying to reach consensus on what further commitments need to be made in order to avert a global environmental catastrophe in the future.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/consumers-more-likely-to-spur-change-than-international-agreements.html</link>
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		<title>Why Investing In Parking Lots Is Quite Lucrative</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are worried about the states of the economy right now and the hurting commercial real estate market do now worry, there still are plenty of investment safe havens out there. You just have to get out of your comfort zone and go and find them.

As weird as it sounds, parking lots may be worth a look here in the next 12 months or so. In fact they are becoming so popular for investors right now you might have trouble trying to snatch one up.

So just why are people going crazy over these parking lots, and similar real estate right now? Simple.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/why-investing-in-parking-lots-is-quite-lucrative.html</link>
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		<title>Farmland Investment Performance &#8211; North America 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The primary measure of farmland investment performance in the United States is the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) Farmland Returns Index. The index provides investors with a measure of the investment performance of a large pool of individual agricultural properties acquired in the private market for investment purposes. According to the index, US farmland returned 8.6% in 2010, and 5.85% to quarter 3 in 2011.

Regional U.S.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/farmland-investment-performance-north-america-2011.html</link>
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		<title>Market Timing Vs Holding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent article in a noted financial magazine discussed the folly of market timing versus buying and holding good stocks. The author pointed out how a ten year investment in a strong stock could produce substantial gains, while admitting that buying and selling the same stock a few times during the 10 years produced almost twice the results...but only if you timed the purchase-sale correctly. In essence, with many examples and reasons, he shot down the concept of market timing while making his case for buy &#038; hold.

The true folly of anti-market timing arguments is that they always focus on tracking particular tickers symbols and questioning the ability to buy or sell at the right time.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/market-timing-vs-holding.html</link>
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		<title>Continued Market Volatility &#8211; 5 Reasons Why It&#8217;s Not All Bad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reading the recent business headlines, confidence surveys and economic strategy reports regarding the market volatility in Greece and the US, it is apparent that we are all concerned about things continuing to head downhill. This market volatility, including the insolvency issues in Greece and high unemployment rates in the US, will continue as governments reluctantly accept this outcome and in the aftermath global economic growth (and consequently investment returns) will remain below average for years to come. However, there are still some positive areas to be encouraged by, amongst the long list of worrisome points.

1.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/continued-market-volatility-5-reasons-why-its-not-all-bad.html</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Time To Dump US Treasury Bonds &#8211; Again!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First let's make sure we understand the basics of bonds.

Bonds are a form of debt. When a company or a government needs to borrow money it can borrow from banks and pay interest on the loan, or it can borrow from investors by issuing bonds and paying interest on the bonds.

One advantage of bonds to the borrower is that a bank will usually require payments on the principle of the loan in addition to the interest, so that the loan gradually gets paid off. Bonds allow the borrower to only pay the interest while having the use of the entire amount of the loan until the bond matures in 20 or 30 years (when the entire amount must be returned at maturity).

Two main factors determine the interest rate the bonds will yield.

If demand for the bonds is high, issuers will not have to pay as high a yield to entice enough investors to buy the offering.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/its-time-to-dump-us-treasury-bonds-again.html</link>
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		<title>The Real-Time Data Services That Can Supply Your Additional Needs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is amazing how real-time data provides information instantly after being collected. There are numerous real-time data services at your disposal that allow you to have insights on market changes with zero lag on information input. The information received can also lessen risk and improve profit.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/the-real-time-data-services-that-can-supply-your-additional-needs.html</link>
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		<title>The Components of the Best Real-Time Data Software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How much do you rely on real-time data to formulate good business strategies? It is amazing how it delivers information instantly after it has been collected. With zero information delays you can immediately view the changes in business events allowing you to make good decisions. There is a lot of real-time data software to be found but not all software can provide you with all your needs.

It would be great to have real-time data software that could allow you to incorporate 3rd party or your personal real-time data feeds into Excel, add value to the data then share this with others.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/the-components-of-the-best-real-time-data-software.html</link>
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		<title>Investing Your Money Wisely in Tough Economic Times &#8211; 5 Basic Tips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having some amount of savings gives you a good level of security given the turbulence in the financial markets and in many of the world's economies. However, the uncertainty will inevitably affect you, your choices and perhaps your money in one way or another. That is why you have to be extremely careful and ensure that you will make smart investment decisions.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/investing-your-money-wisely-in-tough-economic-times-5-basic-tips.html</link>
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		<title>Thinking Outside the Box: Investing When It Seems Impossible Through Available Resources</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Times are tough, money is tight and it is about all you can do to make ends meet. Investing for your future is not a priority when you are just concerned about getting by in the present. This situation makes investing feel even more difficult and can abolish any motivation to reach your ultimate goal.

In order to make the act of investing in your future more feasible, and less painful for you financially, consider using resources already available to you that you may not be fully utilizing.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/thinking-outside-the-box-investing-when-it-seems-impossible-through-available-resources.html</link>
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		<title>According to Forbes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Forbes, the indexed annuity is the hottest thing on the market. As the market keeps shifting, investors keep losing. I'm not referring to folks that play the market but those that are saving for their future as well.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/according-to-forbes.html</link>
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		<title>What You Need in Order Have a Good Financial Data Presentation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The trading market is a difficult and complicated place to get into but the monetary reward is worth the effort. Before you make investments you must have sufficient knowledge, understanding and analysis of the market. You need to have the right data to examine and analyze.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/what-you-need-in-order-have-a-good-financial-data-presentation.html</link>
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		<title>What Can Help You With Yield Curve Analysis?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot of traders and investors examine the yield curve since it has the ability to provide them with accurate predictions of future growth and recession. By effectively analyzing this curve you can lessen risk of loss by leaving the market during recessions. Understanding future economic conditions can provide you security and assurance on your investment.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/what-can-help-you-with-yield-curve-analysis.html</link>
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		<title>Why You Need a Good Technical Analysis Charting Software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The hard truth about the financial market is it is risky and challenging. While many experts give advice on putting your money on long-term investments to generate money safely, many prefer to invest their savings in the financial market in an effort to increase wealth quicker. There is a way to minimize the risks involved and that is by analyzing technical analysis charts.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/why-you-need-a-good-technical-analysis-charting-software.html</link>
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		<title>The Value of Finding Excellent Financial Data Services</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With a high-speed internet connection and computer you can access numerous financial data providers online. You need a source that provides reliable information whether you are new or experienced in trading. The data provided can show you the financial markets and movements of stocks that are crucial in making investment decisions.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/the-value-of-finding-excellent-financial-data-services.html</link>
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		<title>Agriculture Investments &#8211; A Strategy to Maximise Return on Investment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Around 225,000 people are added to the global population every single day, all of whom require food and fuel. At the same time, incomes in developing economies are rising, causing a shift toward a more expensive and more resource intensive westernised diet based on meat. Considering that 1kg of meat requires the input of 7kg of grain as animal feed, this combination of more people and higher consumption per capita adds tremendous strain to already stretched agricultural productivity.

The amount of farmland on the planet is actually falling.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/agriculture-investments-a-strategy-to-maximise-return-on-investment.html</link>
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		<title>Income Investments &#8211; 3 Alternative Investments That Generate Income</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Investors seeking income can no longer rely on share dividends, and saving deposit accounts often generate a negative return when adjusted for inflation. Whilst this scenario looks set to continue for the foreseeable future, we must look elsewhere for our annual pay-outs.

Agriculture Investments

At the most basic level, agriculture investments based on the acquisition of agricultural property assets generate income, either from leased payments from tenant farmers, or shared revenue from harvests when farmed as part of a contract farming agreements (CFA).

There are a number of options for investors to consider, allowing smaller investors to take a direct stake in productive farmland and benefitting from a share of the annual income as well as potential capital growth as land values rise over time.

Such options exist in Latin America, Australia and Africa, and investors should be encouraged to seek independent advice as to the suitability of any such scheme to ensure suitability for the investors specific circumstances and attitude to risk.

Renewable Energy Investments

As the global population grows demanding more energy, and natural resources such as coal oil and gas continue to diminish, the world turns to renewable sources capable of supply energy in perpetuity without causing damage to the environment and delicate global ecosystem.

Around the world, governments incentivise investment in renewable energy technologies such as wind, solar, tidal, geo thermal, waste to energy and anaerobic digestion through feed-in-tariffs, where each unit of energy fed into the national grid is paid for at a set rate which is invariably linked to inflation.

This present those looking for income capture annual revenue that shares no correlation with traditional income investment assets or financial market fundamentals. Investors may choose to establish solar panels or wind turbines, collecting feed in tariffs from energy generated.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/income-investments-3-alternative-investments-that-generate-income.html</link>
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		<title>The Arithmetic of Loss and Recovery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hopefully knowledge of the information below will help you sleep better at night.

Did you know that during our last steep market decline from the high in October of 2007 through it's low in March of 2009, the Standard &#038; Poor 500 Composite Index (a broad measure of U.S. stocks) fell nearly 57%? The good news was that by the end of 2009 the index had risen almost 65% from its March low. Do you think that after a 57% loss that a 65% gain will get you at least back to your break-even point?

Let's look at an easier example to help us figure this out: If a $1,000.00 investment loses 50%, then its value drops to $500.00.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/the-arithmetic-of-loss-and-recovery.html</link>
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		<title>No Such Thing As Too Big to Fail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Reserve just announced that it was going to perform stress tests on 6 major banks, including Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo. This is a part of an annual review required by the Dodd-Frank law, with the intention of determining whether or not any of the big banks are vulnerable to collapse.

Clearly, the last thing the Fed wants is to be blindsided like they were when Lehman Brothers went under and when they were forced to institute TARP. In fact, some think that the collapse of another major financial entity would be disastrous, and would be enough to tip the economy into a full-blown recession.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/no-such-thing-as-too-big-to-fail.html</link>
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		<title>How Companies Are Taking Advantage of Predictive Analysis Software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Predictive analysis software tools can provide you with understanding of what is coming. It is no surprise that the demand for them is increasing. Numerous companies are accepting the competitive advantage the tool's predictive analytics provide.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/how-companies-are-taking-advantage-of-predictive-analysis-software.html</link>
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		<title>Online Share Dealing: Back to Basics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Online share dealing accounts can offer a quick and easy way of starting out in stock market investment if you're looking for a more hands on approach investing and are prepared to put up with a degree of risk.

How do I trade online?

Online share dealing for the individual involves setting up an account and buying and selling shares through it. When you set up an online share dealing account you will usually be required to pay a flat rate of between Â£6.00 and Â£20.00 per trade. Some accounts will also charge a quarterly membership fee too.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/online-share-dealing-back-to-basics.html</link>
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		<title>Agriculture Investments &#8211; The Potential and Performance of Equity and Real-Asset Investments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The investment performance of the agriculture sector can be monitored via a number of devices and measures that track the performance of traditional investment assets such as quoted equities, as well as a range of measures that reflect price movements in alternative investment assets within the agriculture space such as farmland.

In reality, the agriculture sector as a whole relies on a combination of demand for its products, weighed against agricultural productivity. When demand for food, livestock feed and biofuels is high then soft-commodity prices rise, as is also the case when poor productivity creates the same widening of the gap between supply and demand. On the other hand, if demand falls back, or bumper harvests create an oversupply of produce, prices fall.

If one is able to gain an understanding of current productivity and demand dynamics, then one is best able to predict the true performance of the sector as a whole.

The performance of agricultural equities alone - as measured by agricultural indices - does not truly reflect the state of fundamentals that support the sector.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/agriculture-investments-the-potential-and-performance-of-equity-and-real-asset-investments.html</link>
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		<title>Tips To Find Experienced And Authentic Coin Dealers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finding reliable coin dealers can be difficult. The task gets harder if you are in search of one that is both honest and qualified. You can ask for referrals from family and friends as they are able to give you reliable information you can trust.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/tips-to-find-experienced-and-authentic-coin-dealers.html</link>
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		<title>Why Forex Should Be In Your Portfolio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What the Past Teaches Us?

When you look at the last 12 years there are certain truths that have been revealed and replaced former truths. Let's begin with some of the former truths, first of all, over the past several decades one of the most talked about strategies was to Buy and Hold. This essentially meant that with real estate and with global stock markets particularly in the US and Europe, one would just buy a stock or real estate property that had a good balance sheet, a unique product base and room to grow and hold it for years until eventually realizing gains.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/why-forex-should-be-in-your-portfolio.html</link>
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		<title>Middle Class Are Doing Worse in the Current So-Called Economic Recovery Than the Actual Recession</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Newspaper headlines of late are quick to detail what little sign of national economic stability they can; some job growth here or a sign of stock market recovery there. And while it may be true that the S&#038;P 500 is up 77 percent from the lows of March 2009-especially good for big-time stock market gamblers-median household incomes are falling at faster rates during this so-called "recovery period," than they were during the actual recession years. As you can see from the chart below since the beginning of 2009 the median income has dropped sharply while unemployment rises significantly.

In the meantime, the National Association of Realtors (NRA), in addition to providing evidence of continued decline in home sales, also reported a record-high affordability index, which when taken together simply do not add up.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/middle-class-are-doing-worse-in-the-current-so-called-economic-recovery-than-the-actual-recession.html</link>
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		<title>Forestry Investments &#8211; How to Maximise Returns and Minimise Risk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the current global climate, defined by low interest rates; high inflation; volatile investment markets; and poor short term visibility, investors are seeking out alternative investments that generate growth and income that does not depend on traditional market performance.

As such, much attention has been focussed on timber investments as a tool to preserve capital, hedge inflation and generate superior income in a low-risk environment.

Institutional Investors such as pension funds, university endowments and hedge funds have long known the benefits of investing in timber assets, with many such as the Yale University Endowment Fund holding 28 per cent of their investment portfolio in real-asset alternative investments including tropical forestry investments and farmland.

Timber investments are seen as generating non-correlative investment returns due to the fact that the majority of revenues is sourced from the biological growth of the tree, with only a small percentage of return attributed to timber price growth or land value appreciation. One credible university study found that over 60 per cent of returns from forestry investments can be attributed to the 'biological hedge'.

Demand for timber products remains strong, and rises roughly in line with population expansion, a factor compounded by economic expansion in developing nations leading to a n increase in consumption of timber products per capita as new homes and other infrastructure in developed.

Currently, around 30 per cent of global timber supplies are sourced from illegal logging, and a further 40 per cent form unsustainable sources. The future demand dynamics then indicates that timber investments are likely to continue to outperform other assets such as equities, as they have for the past 30 years.

Taking a very broad view, forestry investment returns can be enhanced and potential downside risk substantially reduced through the application of strategic species and location selection, combined with experienced forestry management to create a sustainable and profitable investment model.

Broadly speaking, the faster a tree grows into commercially viable timber, the greater the return on investment, so selecting fast-growing tropical timber species is the first step in consolidating profitable forestry investments.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/forestry-investments-how-to-maximise-returns-and-minimise-risk.html</link>
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		<title>Move Your Money Around</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever thought of your future? Have you ever thought about ways on how to grow your savings? Have you ever put these two together: savings for your future?

Instead of spending your money on the latest gadget, shoes, or designer purses, why not familiarize yourself with safe investments that would generate profit in the long run? What if something bad happens to you, will you be able to pay for the bills incurred? Do not feel overconfident and satisfied with what you have in the present.

Investing your money somewhere else than a bank is a good option but is also a risky one. In any case, you must act and prepare now. Life is so short to be procrastinating and hanging around without a plan for the future.

One common way of investing money is stocks trading.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/move-your-money-around.html</link>
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		<title>Best Australian Investments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What are the best Australian investments in 2011 and for the coming years? This article describes five of the best investments in Australian based on data and information provided by several of the leading advisers and institutions in Australia. While views and opinions may differ on the viability of these investments it is felt that these segments offer he best potential for a return on investment in both the short term as well into the foreseeable future. It should be noted that the information presented here is offered as opinion only and should not be considered as professional investment advice.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/best-australian-investments.html</link>
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		<title>Real-Time Data in Excel Can Promote Better Sharing and Exchange</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many industries have accepted how real-time data can increase overall performance of their businesses. Demand for it has been increasing, especially for its high-speed performance in tracking information. Previously you could experience difficulties and complications constructing real-time data in Excel, but now there are advanced software tools that can conveniently provide this for you.

The great thing about placing this data in Excel is that it allows you to use the popular features of Excel for analysis.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/real-time-data-in-excel-can-promote-better-sharing-and-exchange.html</link>
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		<title>Bull or Bear Market, Food For Thought</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The day before Thanksgiving many of us will be preparing our homes to receive guests, or making the trek to a friend, or relatives gathering.

But the 23rd of November is D-day for the congressional debt committee.

There are many factors to consider:

Will Greece's economy fail, causing them to no longer have credit whereby having to move to an all cash system?

What will be the outcome of the Italian issue, and its subsequent effect on the global economy?

There are many questions, with speculations disguised as answers.

The bigger question, what are you going to do about your situation? Your personal finances are just as important as the global economy because you are a part of that same deteriorating economy.

What are some of the ways you plan to protect the money you currently have from the future impending inflation, and will you still gain interest on your money? Will it be enough to either live off of, or will you use it to build for the future?

With the rocking and rolling of the stock market, should you place your money in bonds? But didn't the analyst say the bond market is a bubble waiting to burst?

Should you move to tangible assets such as gold, silver, etc.?

Will futures be the new 'now' market for growing an income, or retirement portfolio?

What's happening with mutual funds?

The answer to all of these questions is everything has a cycle. Study the cycles and you may be able to predict an outcome.

The stock market currently appears to be in a sideways pattern and with a new cycle starting around the year 2016, but what type of cycle will it be?

Are we in for a Bull or Bear market future?

Only time can really tell.

All bubbles do burst eventually, the futures market may be having gains at this time of the year, and gold's value is through the roof and moving higher with silver riding its coattails. Mutual funds are currently stagnating, but some will gain with the shifts of the S and P.

Real Estate is still a viable consideration for investing, if done wisely.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/bull-or-bear-market-food-for-thought.html</link>
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		<title>Good Deals on ISAs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Getting the best ISA rates does not necessarily mean one is getting the best value for their money. There are a lot of other factors to consider when placing money in a Cash ISA. Things like flexibility, accessibility and transparency come to mind when thinking about what makes a good ISA investment.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/good-deals-on-isas.html</link>
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		<title>The 7 Deadly Sins Of Investing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You work hard for your money, and you want your money to work hard for you. We all need savings and investments to retire comfortably or to fall back on should unexpected circumstances arise. To that end, common investment vehicles include the stock market, mutual funds and retirement/superannuation accounts.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/the-7-deadly-sins-of-investing.html</link>
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		<title>The Forecasting Power Provided by Technical Analysis Charts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of you will agree that technical analysis charts are hard to master. Though it is difficult and takes time to learn, you still want to use them since they can help determine the right time to trade. To save time, many use advanced software that provides better analysis of the charts.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/the-forecasting-power-provided-by-technical-analysis-charts.html</link>
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		<title>Being Equipped With Accurate Historical Data Can Help You Out Perform Your Competitors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You won't have trouble finding the historical data of a company online. Most rely on this data to help them predict the future of a company. You can view revenues and revenue growth, historical price, earnings/price ratio, earnings and earnings growth.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/being-equipped-with-accurate-historical-data-can-help-you-out-perform-your-competitors.html</link>
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		<title>How Can Technical Analysis Help You Formulate the Best Trading Decision?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To be a better trader or investor you need to have a deep understanding of the benefits and limitations of technical analysis. By allowing you to view the markets' and stocks' future performance, you can make better decisions on when to sell and buy. The offered price and charts will make it easy to examine the historical data thus giving you an opportunity to predict price trends.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/how-can-technical-analysis-help-you-formulate-the-best-trading-decision.html</link>
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		<title>Saving for Children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Junior ISAs (Individual Savings Accounts) were recently introduced in the UK. The concept is great. They provide a tax efficient means of building a lump sum of capital for your child for when he/she reaches adulthood.

The bad news is that even if you are a British citizen, if you are not UK resident, then you can't invest in one.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/saving-for-children.html</link>
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		<title>The Flight to Safety &#8211; US Stocks, Bonds, Treasuries Ready to Soar I Suppose</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It appears that the European Union is on the verge of collapse, or least the investors believe it is, and therefore they will seek other places to put their money. As much as you'd be led to believe, China is not in that good of shape either, and as the EU's economy falters, there will be fewer buyers and purchases of goods made in China, meaning China cannot maintain its growth rate, and therefore there will also be a flight to safety out of China.

The Japanese economy is still trying to recover from the earthquake, and they have debt issues with their huge stimulus they put forth, plus what they already had. There are very few nations which are a safe bet (Canada, Australia, etc), any time markets get shaken up around the world, there is an immediate flight to safety here the United States.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/the-flight-to-safety-us-stocks-bonds-treasuries-ready-to-soar-i-suppose.html</link>
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		<title>What Can Help You Develop The Best Trading Strategies?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of us desire to put our money on something that will provide us with most return and profit. You can read a lot of articles that provide advice on how to create effective trading strategies. And their common advice would be to constantly seek information and analyze the data in order to know the things you will do that will increase the chance of success before you make a trade.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/what-can-help-you-develop-the-best-trading-strategies.html</link>
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		<title>The Omega Ratio &#8211; A Better Investment Performance Benchmark</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Investors typically use performance benchmarks like the Sharpe Ratio or the Sortino Ratio to rank mutual funds, ETFs, and index trackers. However, these common performance benchmarks have several drawbacks and can often be very misleading. The Omega Ratio, however, addresses these shortcomings and delivers a far more sophisticated method of ranking investments.

The Sharpe Ratio originated in the 1960s and is also known as the reward-to-risk ratio.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/the-omega-ratio-a-better-investment-performance-benchmark.html</link>
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		<title>Can New Yale Study Change Forestry Carbon Budgets?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Forests have long been dubbed as "the lungs of the Earth." Their carbon storing capacity has attracted green investments from companies and governments looking to reduce their carbon footprint by restoring and preserving forestry landscapes. A recent study by Yale University, however, revealed a culprit, right in the back yard of most forests, which is likely to alter the way emission reductions in some forestry offset projects are being accounted for.

Yale researchers studied samples collected by the United States Geological Survey from over 4,000 U.S. streams and rivers.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/can-new-yale-study-change-forestry-carbon-budgets.html</link>
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		<title>Investing in the TSP Funds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Thrift Savings Plan currently offers ten investment funds. Five are U.S. and international stock and bond index funds: they replicate the performance of broad market indexes.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/investing-in-the-tsp-funds.html</link>
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		<title>4 Easy Ways to Make Money With Zero Experience and Zero Cash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Strategy 1 Mystery Shopper

Companies know and care about the effect that customer service can have on their bottom line. Because of this they routinely hire other companies to provide research data and surveys on how they are doing, as well as how they could be better. One of the most popular methods that research companies use is mystery shoppers.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/4-easy-ways-to-make-money-with-zero-experience-and-zero-cash.html</link>
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		<title>Metal Ratios: Available Vs Needed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are collecting metals and you want to have a metal capable of food production you would want the scarcest metal because you would want a manageable amount seeing that these metals are cheap at today's prices. Molybdenum is the scarcest metal/element for food production and it happens to be a transition metal which in today's economy driven by energy and manufacturing makes it attractive and consumed.

To grow edible plants you need specific ratios of elements that are proven to work. I use a reputable product that grows great hydroponic/aeroponic food.

Let's say there is 80 pounds of molybdenum left on Earth.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/metal-ratios-available-vs-needed.html</link>
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		<title>What Is Socially Responsible Investing For A Better Future?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Green investing focuses on investing in companies and technologies that are deemed to be good for the environment. This includes individual companies that have a solid track record of reducing the environmental impact of their operations, as well as companies that offer alternative energy technologies such as solar and wind power. Green investors will also avoid investing in companies that have a negative impact on the environment, such as companies with poor emissions standards.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/what-is-socially-responsible-investing-for-a-better-future.html</link>
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		<title>Alternative Investment Ideas &#8211; Hard Wood = Hard Asset = Hard Cash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TEAK - the truly 'Hard Asset'

Plantation Asset Management Limited now offers one of the best opportunities for private investors to add long-term value accreditation to their portfolios by owning their own teak plantation on specially selected land in Brazil. Projected returns - based on historic price data and industry production averages - show that Â£10,000 invested now will produce a total return of Â£140,000 over 25 years. These returns reflect only 5% annual price inflation for teak wood, which has in fact seen average annual price rises of 5.2% over the past 30 years.

And all this comes with the major advantage that Capital Gains Tax and Inheritance Tax breaks exist for all forestry investments, so that you can lock away assets for your retirement, or your children and grandchildren without worrying about the long-term tax implications.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/alternative-investment-ideas-hard-wood-hard-asset-hard-cash.html</link>
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		<title>Can Jobless Apple Remain Ripe?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The death of Stephen P. Jobs, co-founder and longtime CEO of Apple Inc., in early October evoked an outpouring of tributes in media across the world. The flood of praise was well-deserved.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/can-jobless-apple-remain-ripe.html</link>
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		<title>Best Correlation Analysis Software That Can Aid You in Making Good Decisions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most traders understand that the cost movement of each currency pair is dependent on the other. They know that though each currency in the pair is different, they are correlated and these correlations can be negative or positive. Many acquire correlation analysis software to aid them in their decision-making process.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/best-correlation-analysis-software-that-can-aid-you-in-making-good-decisions.html</link>
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		<title>Effective Analysis of the Yield Curve Data Can Produce Great Rewards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As investors, you are concerned about the outlook of the economy. You mostly rely on yield curve data to provide you awareness on the activities in the economy and the changes in interest rates. The yield curve's slope is among the best indicators of future recessions, inflation and economic growth.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/effective-analysis-of-the-yield-curve-data-can-produce-great-rewards.html</link>
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		<title>How to Come Up With the Best Investment Strategy For You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First of all, choosing an investment strategy is a lot like finding your dream job. If you don't like what you are doing, you will hate it and try to do the minimum possible just to get by. This will result in you not getting the best out of the experience and being very very miserable.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/how-to-come-up-with-the-best-investment-strategy-for-you.html</link>
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		<title>Everybody Needs a Will</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many people believe that Wills and estate planning is only for the wealthy...The 1%, if you will. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, EVERYONE should have a Will regardless of their income, assets, or marital status.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/everybody-needs-a-will.html</link>
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		<title>Buy Decisions Based on Return or Alpha-Relative Strength Momentum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Investment decisions should be based on solid analysis. Two of the many methods available to base your decision upon are 'return' and relative strength momentum as analyzed with an 'alpha' formula.

'Return' sounds pretty straight forward and is popular. In fact many chart programs are in effect illustrating the return of a ticker symbol simply by showing the movement of the ticker's price.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/buy-decisions-based-on-return-or-alpha-relative-strength-momentum.html</link>
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		<title>5 Ways To Profit From The Greek Crisis and Crazy Stock Market</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Right now the Greece crisis is going from bad to worse. The Greek government are trying every trick in the book to put a quick fix on this train wreck, but nothing seems to be working. The market last week went crazy on this news, and many investors got caught out in both directions.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/5-ways-to-profit-from-the-greek-crisis-and-crazy-stock-market.html</link>
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		<title>Forestry Investment Risks &#8211; Buyer Beware</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The current economic climate, defined by low interest rates, volatile equity markets and poor short-term visibility, is leading Investors of all shapes and sizes to investigate alternative investment assets in an effort to boost portfolio performance whilst also reducing exposure to traditional assets like equities.

Forestry is one sector where investment returns are driven more by the biological growth of trees into valuable timber than traditional growth fundamentals. Forestry also provides a shelter for capital, and superior compound growth, even during falling markets.

Institutional Investors have led the charge into forestry investments with Pension Funds and Hedge Funds acquiring timberland properties as part of their diversification strategy. This has led to the emergence of a plethora of forestry investment products aimed at the retail Investor.

With options to acquire small forestry plots within large, managed plantations in Brazil, Costa Rica, Panama, Sri Lanka, Fiji, Thailand, Nicaragua, Australia and New Zealand, potential Investors could be forgiven for feeling confused, and the lack of quality information about the sector for Financial Advisors leads many to divert their Clients attention to other, more traditional investment assets like residential or commercial property, or even equities.

In this article we look into the main concerns regarding these retail forestry investments, and look to how risk can be properly assessed and mitigated.

The main issue regarding the vast majority of direct forestry investment products on the market is the basic structuring of the product.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/forestry-investment-risks-buyer-beware.html</link>
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		<title>Has the Greek Tragedy Started?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many Eurozone leaders have hoped that they can rescue Greece's imminent bankruptcy through more debt, fiscal austerity, privatization and reform and postpone the inevitable until 2013, when the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) should provide an orderly planned state insolvency.

UBS AG, which operates in more than 40 countries and considered as the world's second largest manager of private wealth assets, with over CHF 2.2 trillion in invested assets, thinks otherwise. The company believes a default will be triggered before the end of the year. "The 'voluntary' debt restructuring agreed on over the summer is already likely to saddle Greece with a selective default rating," said UBS Research Focus in October 2011, "and we would go so far as to say that the country can no longer escape a full default."

The prediction now seems ominous after prime minister Papandreou announced an unexpected decision to hold a poll on additional budget cuts as conditions for a second aid package.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/has-the-greek-tragedy-started.html</link>
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		<title>How to Be Your Own Bank</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Introduction

With base rates at historical lows, many savers and investors are frustrated with the interest rates that are being offered by banks and other financial institutions.

In fact it will not surprise you to learn that a bank considers its customers as it cheapest source of funds, offering less than half a percent on current accounts and up to a generous 3 to 4 % on longer term savings and bonds.

With credit again starting to become tight between banks the London Interbank Offer Rate known as LIBOR is starting to rise well above the bank base rate. With the base rate at 0.5% 1 week Libor is now 0.91% and 1 year Libor is now 1.699%.

If you also factor in that inflation is running around 4% to 4.5% with the current interest rates being offered, savers and investors are losing purchasing power by holding their savings in the banks.

It used to be considered very safe to hold your money in a savings account, but as the current credit crisis has highlighted the banks are not as safe as savers once thought. Even though most governments around the world have guarantees in place to protect savers funds, it should be noted these guarantees only cover in the UK up to 85,000.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/how-to-be-your-own-bank.html</link>
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		<title>Do You Have The Top 3 Qualities of a Successful Investor?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you have what it takes to be a successful investor? Here are the three must have attributes of a successful investor, patience, optimism, and education. Without these three attributes you are doomed to failure.

1. Patience

In the short-term stock prices go up and down.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/do-you-have-the-top-3-qualities-of-a-successful-investor.html</link>
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		<title>Global Macro Discussion: How to Deal With Greece</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why is Europe taking so long to decide on Greece?

The stakeholders that are involved with the decision on Greece are experiencing a stalemate. But time is running out as the Greek bond yields are fiercely increasing. The longer they take to make a decision, the less room for error.

So what are the stakeholders actually saying and what do they actually want from the deal?

Germans and other EU Superpowers

Germans are asking for Greeks to use their properties as collateral in exchange for bailout funds.

The catch is that the properties will be under German control.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/global-macro-discussion-how-to-deal-with-greece.html</link>
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		<title>Retail Treasury Bonds, Investing in the Philippines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With all the hoopla about the European debt crisis, a few of the governments in the Euro area are finding it hard to keep their finances in order. If you live in these countries, it would be risky to lend your money to the government because default is always a possibility. But for us Filipinos, lending money to the government is a good opportunity to earn some interest income.

One way to lend money to the government is through buying Retail Treasury Bonds (RTB) issued by the Bureau of the Treasury.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/retail-treasury-bonds-investing-in-the-philippines.html</link>
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		<title>Introduction to Future and Options</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Futures are basically contracts used to trade an investment instrument for a certain price on a specified date, sometime in future. In non-technical words, it is a bet placed on price of an instrument in future. Such is trading is technically, called 'Futures Trading'.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/introduction-to-future-and-options.html</link>
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		<title>Understanding Investment Funds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An investment fund is a type of investment vehicle used to invest in the stock market. An investment fund is where the investor contributes a sum of money into that fund, which has already been invested into certain areas of the stock market. The idea is to minimise the risk by spreading the amount invested into several areas of the stock market at once.

This has the following advantages:

Â· Minimises risk to the investor as the fund will be configured to buy stocks and shares in different commodities.

Â· Can be configured on the basis of risk, so the more adventurous may look for a high risk, high return fund, while a more cautions investor may look for a low risk, low return fund.

Â· Avoids the scenario of putting your eggs in one basket, which many financial people would advise against doing.

Â· They are good for the inexperienced investor as they invest in many areas of the market.

It is worth remembering that stocks can do well one year and perform poorly the next.

Investment funds still require key decisions to be made, especially in the area of risk.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/understanding-investment-funds.html</link>
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		<title>4 Ways to Generate Residual Income</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Residual Income Stream 1 - Options Investing - Selling Naked Puts And Covered Calls

Put and Call stock options give you the "option" but not the obligation to sell or buy a stock at a pre-determined price that you choose, during a certain time frame that YOU specify.

With the Selling Naked Puts strategy you sell put options on stocks you don't own but you would not mind owning. With this strategy you get paid a premium fee so that someone has the right to sell their stocks to you at a price you decide.

With the selling Covered Call option strategy, you basically sell call options against stocks you already own. This is a great strategy if you own stocks that are just sitting idly in your brokerage account and you don't know whether to sell them or not.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/4-ways-to-generate-residual-income.html</link>
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		<title>Lock and Reset Vs The Market</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you're feeling pangs of concern about your retirement nest egg and the increasingly volatile stock market, you're not alone.

The last 6 or 7 years have been filled with uncertainty for people whose serious retirement money is tied up in traditional retirement accounts like IRAs and 401(k)s. Some have seen as much as 30% of their retirement funds disappear into thin air.

The question on everyone's mind is how to protect your money from market uncertainty and how do you instead create stability?

Will Rogers is quoted as saying that "people are more concerned with the return of their money than with the return on their money." This is especially true for those who are still smarting from the losses they've experienced over the past few years.

Douglas Andrew of Missed Fortune has been a financial strategist and retirement specialist for the past 34 years. In his experience, the best vehicle for growing your serious money while avoiding the risks of market volatility is indexed universal life insurance.

This strategy requires you to maximum fund an insurance contract and the return the insurance company credits is then linked to an index such as the S&#038;P 500, the Euro Stock Index or the Dow Jones.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/lock-and-reset-vs-the-market.html</link>
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		<title>Liquidity, Safety and Rate of Return: 3 Essential Elements of Investing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Suppose someone were to approach you with an investment opportunity for your consideration. There are 3 key questions you'd want answered before committing your money. If you don't understand these questions you may have a Missed Fortune.

1.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/liquidity-safety-and-rate-of-return-3-essential-elements-of-investing.html</link>
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		<title>Bypassing the Bank Through Person to Person Lending</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nothing stimulates ingenuity like difficult circumstances. For instance, in our current out-of-breath economy, borrowing money is considerably tougher than it was just a few years ago. This is especially true when working with traditional lending sources that have raised fees and tightened credit standards on borrowers.

The tougher lending environment has also sparked a number of creative solutions such as person-to-person lending.

A Wall Street Journal article this past March by Jane J.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/bypassing-the-bank-through-person-to-person-lending.html</link>
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		<title>The Impossible Dream: Spending Our Way Out of a Recession</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Milton Friedman has been called "the economist of the century" by Fortune magazine. Newsweek has referred to him as "one of the nation's outstanding economists, distinguished for remarkable analytical powers and technical virtuosity. He is unfailingly enlightening, independent, courageous, penetrating and, above all, stimulating."

An economist with this kind of standing is well worth listening to when he addresses the subject of recession.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/the-impossible-dream-spending-our-way-out-of-a-recession.html</link>
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		<title>Why Your IRA and 401(K) Are Not Conservative Investments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let's suppose you wanted to borrow $100,000.

As your lender hands you the check, you ask them exactly when you'll be required to pay this loan back. They respond, "Don't worry, I'll tell you when it's time to pay it back."

You enquire further about the interest rate you'll be paying and the response is much the same, "Don't worry, I'll tell you the interest rate I'm charging when it's time to start paying the money back."

Under these conditions, how safe would you feel in endorsing that check? Most people would have alarm bells going off in all directions. Yet this is essentially what most people are doing when they place their money in an IRA or 401(k).

They're putting money into those accounts and it's entirely up to the government through Congress or the IRS to tell you when it's okay to pull that money out and how much in taxes you'll be paying on it.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/why-your-ira-and-401k-are-not-conservative-investments.html</link>
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		<title>Why Social Security Should Be On Your Radar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With our government staring down the barrel of nearly $62 trillion in unfunded liabilities, it's easy to see why Social Security has become such a hot button issue today. That's $62 trillion that the government has obligated itself to pay out in benefits, but it doesn't have a dime of this money in its coffers at the moment.

That's money that has been withheld from our paychecks in order to pay past users of the Social Security system. When the Social Security program was instituted in 1935, there were approximately 15 workers paying into the system for every person who was receiving benefits.

Those numbers have steadily shifted until today we only have 2-3 workers paying into the system for every person receiving benefits.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/why-social-security-should-be-on-your-radar.html</link>
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		<title>If Your Strategy Is So Great, Why Doesn&#8217;t Everybody Do It?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A common question that comes up when discussing the Missed Fortune strategies and cash accumulation inside indexed universal life insurance is the one that asks, "If what you're advocating really works, then why isn't everyone doing it?"

It's a fair question, though it fails to consider the possibility that what everybody else is doing may be the wrong thing.

For starters, it is true that the superior savings methods that we teach are only used by perhaps the top 1% or less of Americans. But it's actually a good thing that more people aren't utilizing these strategies.

Only a tiny fraction of Americans are familiar with the specific sections of the IRS Code that allow your money to accumulate tax free, that allow access to your money tax free and allow that money to be transferred tax free when you die.

Think about it.

If the majority of Americans truly understood and utilized those sections of the IRS Code, it's a safe bet that the IRS would quickly change or eliminate those provisions. These are not carefully guarded secrets; they are simply a part of the tax code that remains largely unknown, even to many professional accountants and tax advisors.

Those financial professionals who have been shown the relevant sections of the code during a 3 day Missed Fortune training almost universally say, "I simply didn't know what I didn't know."

The same can be said for millions of people who continue to pump savings into their IRAs and 401(k)s, where the tax-deferred status of their money will cost them dearly when they start to withdraw their funds.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/if-your-strategy-is-so-great-why-doesnt-everybody-do-it.html</link>
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		<title>Why Invest in the Earth?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There has been a surprising, although not fully unanticipated, rise in the amount of alternative investors over recent years and various specialist investment companies now exist to cater for this demand by offering investments that are not only lucrative, but are also environmentally friendly.

Investing in our own planet is becoming big business these days and now there are a number of ways solo investors and larger companies and organisations can make money whilst concentrating on reducing their own carbon emissions.

Carbon Trading

Carbon trading is basically an economical approach to reducing pollution and the resultant build up of green house gasses in the earth's atmosphere which in turn leads to climate change and global warming, and so far it has been very effective. Industries that emit pollutants into the atmosphere are now required to purchase permits to do so. The total amount they are permitted to pollute comes under strict controls.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/why-invest-in-the-earth.html</link>
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		<title>Solar Energy Trends For Future Investment Opportunities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Solar Panel Process

Long before a solar panel (called a module in the industry), can be installed on a business or household rooftop, there are some steps that must take place. It all starts with plain ol' sand, from which silicon is extracted via various chemical processes. The refined and nearly pure silicon, called polysilicon or poly, is then heated and cast into cubes, called ingots.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/solar-energy-trends-for-future-investment-opportunities.html</link>
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		<title>Stock Market Investments: The Essentials</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today a lot of us are trying to find ways of earning extra cash for the future and one of the most popular ways of making extra money is with stock market investing. It is possible to make money on the stock market if you go about things in the right way. You should be aware that trading on the stock market does not work for everyone and you shouldn't look at it as a way to make a fortune quickly.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/stock-market-investments-the-essentials.html</link>
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		<title>Interested In Fine Wine Investments?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Small-scale fine wine investments are increasingly popular, especially in the UK. What was once a select investment opportunity, limited to wealthy connoisseurs, has now become much more accessible. The Internet, the growing number of investment trusts, and the greater amount of information about fine wine available have all contributed to bringing wine investments closer to mainstream.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/interested-in-fine-wine-investments.html</link>
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		<title>Carbon Credits &#8211; What Are They And How Are They Used?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One carbon credit is equivalent to one metric tonne of carbon dioxide. For every metric tonne of carbon dioxide you save you'll be granted a carbon credit. These are presented as certificates and can be sold off to other companies to help their own profit margin.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/carbon-credits-what-are-they-and-how-are-they-used.html</link>
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		<title>Trading on Binary Options</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the riskiest trading options around yet is binary options trading. The payout for this kind of option is either a fixed price or asset, or none at all. It's very risky especially for a newbie to try this type of trading.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/trading-on-binary-options.html</link>
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		<title>Forestry Funds and the Challenges They Face Overseas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, Nepal announce that it will unveil 50 projects from foreign investments at the Nepal Investor Forum in 2012. Forestry is one of the areas these foreign funds will be directed.

Around the same time, People's Daily Online reported that a total of $1.5 billion of foreign loans and grants have been invested in China's forestry sector between 1985 and the end of 2010. According to the Sate Forestry Administration, the foreign investments, along with domestic funding of 8.7 billion yuan (about $1.37 billion) have resulted in 5.82 million hectares of afforestation.

Forestry funds, however, have to be careful and anticipate some challenges when dealing with initiatives overseas --- lack of transparency, local political and economic conditions and corrupt practices.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/forestry-funds-and-the-challenges-they-face-overseas.html</link>
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		<title>4 Wine Investing Tips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Simple in theory - purchase sought wine and resell it later at a profit - yet a bit more complicated in practice, wine investing is not for everyone. Investments in wine can be highly profitable, return investments having increased by 269% from 2005 to 2010, yet only if done right. And do to things right you need to be a lover of wines yourself, to know the market, to have connections, in short, to know what you are doing.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/4-wine-investing-tips.html</link>
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		<title>Are Contemporary Art Investments Worth It?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Contemporary art is, with very few exceptions, much cheaper than the work of past masters. This is true of generally all works of art, and especially of paintings and sculptures. Hence art investments are considered by some lucrative, since you don't need that much money to start them.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/are-contemporary-art-investments-worth-it.html</link>
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		<title>5 Benefits To Discover About Fine Wine Investment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fine Wine Investment is an old phenomenon that has revolutionized over the recent times. This financial opportunity provides for shareholders and savers a healthy return on funds. The key in purchasing wines is to search for the ideal brand and price.]]></description>
		<link>http://investmentarticle.com/5-benefits-to-discover-about-fine-wine-investment.html</link>
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